is your father legalistic when he tells u eat ur vegies? or don't lay on the train tracks?

[evenifigoalone]

Don't have the energy nor desire to argue, but will put a little two cents in here.

I think of legalism as stating restrictions and the like, stuff that has no major impact on important doctrine, that aren't scriptural as if they are, or using verses out of context for the purpose of making a case on one such an issue. But obviously not everyone agrees on the small specifics of what is scriptural and what is not. The church I grew up in swears up and down that scripture supports the idea that the KJV is the only real Bible in English. I believe they are hugely mistaken in that area. But to them it is the truth, something they dare not question, and they have apologetics on it that you could debate endlessly with them on.
Even if wrong, they have a right to that belief. All I can do is respectfully disagree.

 

[follower]

without any concern for legal aspects, the Hebrews / Jews/ Faithful gentiles considered
the
spiritual life inseparable from the physical aspects - all of ones life is a unity or a whole and clothes and food and job and even leisure time off and all parts of living visible and invisible are tied together.
to
try to separate the physical aspects of living from the spiritual reality of identity with Yeshua or identity with satan leads to grievous errors.
it's perhaps a little better understood (to start) from what Yeshua said someplace - whatever fills and overflows from your heart is what people see. not feelings and emotions, but actions and deeds all the time, even when you're not thinking about it.

much more particularly too is faith - not as if defined nor needing defined - it is a way of life including all the nuances, motives, thoughts, actions, beliefs, and actions; not some subset, separable part that can be pulled out and examined by itself, but living all in all in union with Messiah Yeshua every moment awake and asleep, consciously or unconsciously realizing restfully oneness with Him in the Father ... ... ...

the law, the letter of the law, trusting in the law, cannot accomplish this.

 

[JLB]

without any concern for legal aspects, the Hebrews / Jews/ Faithful gentiles considered
the
spiritual life inseparable from the physical aspects - all of ones life is a unity or a whole and clothes and food and job and even leisure time off and all parts of living visible and invisible are tied together.
to
try to separate the physical aspects of living from the spiritual reality of identity with Yeshua or identity with satan leads to grievous errors.
it's perhaps a little better understood (to start) from what Yeshua said someplace - whatever fills and overflows from your heart is what people see. not feelings and emotions, but actions and deeds all the time, even when you're not thinking about it.

much more particularly too is faith - not as if defined nor needing defined - it is a way of life including all the nuances, motives, thoughts, actions, beliefs, and actions; not some subset, separable part that can be pulled out and examined by itself, but living all in all in union with Messiah Yeshua every moment awake and asleep, consciously or unconsciously realizing restfully oneness with Him in the Father ... ... ...

the law, the letter of the law, trusting in the law, cannot accomplish this.