Paul said the law is good, if used lawfully. This is the whole problem. The law is good, but the way people use it is often not good. Paul said the legalists who use the law do not understand the law. They do not know God.
Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats (food laws), which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. (Heb 13:9).
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: (1 Tim 4:2-4).
Legalistic doctrines are doctrines of demons. We have liberty in Christ and must stand fast in that liberty (Gal 5:1), but not liberty to indulge the flesh and please ourselves, but to serve one another in joy. (Gal 5:13).
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