Monday, May 02, 2005

The Distortion of Lawlessness

In converse to the previous post on The Legalist Distortion, this post presents the other extreme of the ethical continuim. In philosophical categories, the concept of lawlessness is expressed by the term antinomianism. This word comes from the Greek word for law which means nomas. So, antinomianism is the belief system comprised of no law.

This term can be further deliniated in three different ways. These are:

1. Libertinism
2. Spiritual Gnosticsm. Using the "leading" of the Holy Spirit to justify that which violates God's law.
3. New Morality

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