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following a universalistic “gospel” of the Fatherhood of Godor a social gospel or a golden rule gospel. Even many“evangelicals” today worship the false non-judgmental god ofe Shack rather than the holy God of Scripture. WhenLowry says doctrinal confusion will be straightened out inHeaven, he is also ignoring the fact that it is the Christian’sduty to defend sound Bible doctrine (Jude 3) and to separatefrom false doctrine (Romans 16:17). A preacher is not toallow any false doctrine whatsoever, which is the very higheststandard of striving for doctrinal purity (1 Timothy 1:3).Lowry continues his tirade against “legalism”:“Preachers keep giving people a list of rules instead of ‘Love theLord with all your heart, then do as you please’—because if youlove the Lord your God with all your heart, what you do isgonna please God. It’s easier to say ‘don’t do this, don’t do that,do this, and do that,’ but you end up a Pharisee. ey’re takingthe easy way out. Man has always loved the law more thangrace” (Lowry, Ibid.).is sounds great, but if preaching the love of God isenough why are the New Testament epistles filled withspecific commandments? Lowry’s tirade against “legalism” isa smokescreen for his rebellion against Bible-believingChristianity. To compare truth-loving, Christ-centeredfundamentalists to Pharisees, as is so popular with the CCMcrowd, is a slander. e Pharisee’s problem was his selfrighteouspride and rejection of God’s salvation in JesusChrist. e Bible-believing fundamentalists that I know arenot self-righteous; they know and acknowledge readily thatthey have zero righteousness apart from Jesus Christ. eyknow that they are not better than anyone else. e Phariseesrejected the grace of Christ, whereas the fundamentalistexalts the grace of Christ. True legalism is replacing the graceof Christ with works salvation, as we see in the book ofGalatians. Many denominations have done this, including theRoman Catholic Church, but this is not what the Biblicalfundamentalist does. He teaches that salvation is by grace213