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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
To me, this is one of the great tragedies of legalism in the first place. It makes for a very shaky foundation.
I'm spending a lot of time right now talking to my kids. Discussing the rules, where they came from, whether they are biblically based, or just man-made. If they were necessary for a certain time period, but are not biblically required. What the Bible requires will never change, but our man-made rules will change. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's necessary to know the difference.
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And it's critical daddy/mommy and pastor are on same page, or we imprint on our kid's spirit, of mistrust of leadership. So this is done with a careful scapel. On the same hand, I know many UC youth that have a legitimate walk with God, so these things are not generalities. But you are correct that legalism, or at the least, unbiblical teaching about how we should live, creates a disconnect between the Holy Spirit's work of Justification in the life of the believer and the believer. We agree to the danger in the first place.
But it's now like the young man in The Christmas Story that put his tongue upon a frozen lamppost. To get it off, one can't just pull quickly away, it's quite the process if you want to inflict the least amount of pain.