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Antinomianism doesn't always stem from Dispensationalism (although I have mostly seen it displayed by extremist dispensationalists) it can also stem from Hyper-Calvinism too Mark.

Thanks, Pete, for pointing out the error in what Mark attributed to me.

I never said that Antinomianism stemmed from dispensational error. What I said was that I was taught it under the guise of dispensationalism, and I agree with you that this particular error has been responsible for much of the teaching of the error of antinominaism. But there are many ways in which the enemy can come with the error. And the post by Susan wherein she quotes Luther clearly attributes the error to more fundamental causes, and in a time when dispensationalism didn't even exist, it having been introduced by Darby in the late 1800's if memory serves. At any rate, dispensationalism came along several hundred years after Luther.

As I pointed out in a post yesterday to Mark, the fundamental reason for the error lies in faulty exegesis, or at least that is true from a mechanistic or functional perspective. The real reason is the perversity of the heart, and part of the problem there is pride of course, but as Pilgrim has pointed out, plain old laziness is part of it too, because one must think about how these many scriptures, that bear on the same subject, can be reconciled.

In essence we are trying to understand a little bit of the Mind of God, and how He sees things, and that is difficult, but not impossible, for our puny minds to grasp.

In Him,

Gerry