C&CW Ep. 15 - Liberty of Conscience: the Scriptures, pt. 1
May 3, 2021•465 words
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Episode 15
Show Notes:
It's time for an extended series on the topic of Liberty of Conscience—personal convictions, weaker brothers, stronger brothers, & Pharisees.
*This series will span 17 episodes (15–31)
We will begin, as always, with studying the biblical texts.
- Colossians 2:16–23
- Galatians 2:3–6
- Galatians 4:7–11
God's Word should be the foundation of this conversation.
And it is rare, which is bad for the evangelical church.
These texts may seem unrelated to personal convictions and liberty.
Personal convictions and biblical convictions (they aren't the same), the weaker brother, the stronger brother, and the Pharisee.
Pharisee is metaphorical for the legalist. The legalist makes his personal convictions universal.
Are we talking about Christians? Often, ones who act like Pharisees were not Christians.
These texts help us recognize that before conversion, we lived according to an anti-Christian worldview, now we think according to Christ. We must be able to identify convictions as biblical or not.
Even in the Scriptures, those forcing extra-biblical convictions on others were false brothers.
First text: Romans 14:1–15:6
- Romans 14:1–4
If some are weak in faith, then there are those strong in faith.
"Opinions" regarding adiaphora
Example: eating vegetables only.
Neither are to hold the other in contempt.
A principle after v. 3.:
Who's servant are you?
Who is your master and lord?
Who are you to judge the servant of another?
This is the bad kind of judgment.
We serve God, not the pastor, his wife, or his kids.
Human beings cannot be lords over someone else's conscience. God alone is lord of the conscience.
A profound question is: "says who?"
There is genuine authority in the church, but man cannot add to Scripture and compel you to do something not in God's Word.
"This is how I was taught. This is how I was discipled."
And it was wrong. It was not checked against Scripture.
We're dealing with the explicit commands and the implications. Sometimes we make bad and unnecessary deductions from Scripture. But we're not talking about that.
We're talking about adding commands to Scriptures.
Typically there is an acknowledgment that it's not in the Bible . . . but.
"Even though God doesn't tell you to do this, but I am telling you." Based on experience, culture, etc.
This is why we begin this conversation with God's Word.
- Romans 14:5–9
Does this means Sunday is the same as every other day?
See also Galatians 4:7–11 and Col. 2:16.
Old covenant calendar and the papist church-calendar; professing Christians who hold to extra days beyond the Christian Sabbath.
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