who substitutes the “law of God” for the “law of Christ” is a theological liberal. Theological liberalism, also known as “modernism,” teaches that the God of the Old Testament was a God of wrath and law, while the God of the New Testament (Jesus) is the God of love and grace. As we’ve seen, this heresy has a long history and various incarnations. Consider the view of the Italian Gioacchino da Fiore, better known as Abbot Joachim of Flora (c. 1135–1202): In contrast with the two-period old/new dichotomy,
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