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Originally Posted by stmatthew
It depends upon ones definition of legalism. If legalism is a preacher reading the bible, and preaching for folks to obey it or they will be lost, I disagree with you. Is this considered "works based" salvation?? That was what Paul was dealing with.
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Any teaching that makes man's performance the basis for his salvation is legalism. Paul makes it very clear that salvation is by grace through faith, and even our faith is not of ourselves, so that no one can boast that their own works have saved them. Some folks have a hard time accepting that a person cannot save themselves. Man's effort to save himself always ends up as legalism.
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