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The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since the days of the early church, Christians have wrestled with the relationship between law and gospel. If, as the apostle Paul says, salvation is by grace and the law cannot save, what relevance does the law have for Christians today? By revisiting the Marrow Controversy—a famous but largely forgotten eighteenth-century debate related to the proper relationship between God’s grace and our...

Old Testament Anticipated answer → New Testament Sin Anticipated answer → Grace David Anticipated answer → Goliath Jerusalem Anticipated answer → Babylon Antinomianism Anticipated answer → ? Would it be fair to assume that the instinctive response there at the end would be “Legalism”? Is the “correct answer” really “Legalism”? It might be the right answer at the level of common usage, but it would be unsatisfactory from the standpoint of theology, for antinomianism and legalism are not so much antithetical
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