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Originally Posted by Brother Price
Exactly. Legalism comes into play when someone comes around who holds a righteous standards, and they denounce such a someone as lost because they hold to holiness. You can almost see that self-same spirit with many people who flaunt how they left the UPC, and are proud of it. They claim to be 'modern' believers, and say that standards are bondage, some even calling them sin.
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Would it also be "legalism" when someone comes around who holds to standards and denounces all others as lost, who don't hold those same standards?
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