GS: Antinomian Christians

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Antinomian Christians

To trust in Jesus only as Savior, but reject him as LORD, is to not come to saving faith. Such people may have come to believe a fact about Jesus, but not actually come to trust in the person of Christ himself. They want to be saved, but don't want someone Lording over them. They want to go to heaven, but they don't want the LORD Jesus to be there. They've fabricated an idol they refer to as "Jesus", pulling some pieces from the Biblical Christ while discarding other elements of the Biblical Christ they dislike.

Likewise there are those who are sick of experiencing the consequences of their sin and simply want to escape the consequences of sin, but not the sin itself. They want Jesus to clean up their mess, but they don't want to become new creatures. And again they want to be saved, but they don't intend to obey the LORD. Peter writes of the promoters of a non-Lord Jesus faith. "There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them— bringing swift destruction on themselves.... If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.  Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." 2Peter 2:1,20-22

Such people view salvation as a license to sin, as Jude also writes in parallel to 2Peter 2, "For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord." Jude 1:4

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