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Originally Posted by Evangelical
So if you disagree with my view that the majority of denominations are not obeying God by following the Spirit, you are free to provide your own analysis or evaluation and disagree.
But I think it would be harder for you to justify that the majority of Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican are following the Spirit, than it is for me to justify that they are not. It may be easy for a Roman Catholic to claim that they are following the Spirit, in their own way they are convinced this is true. But I think it would be particularly hard for a Protestant to admit or acknowledge that the majority of Roman Catholics follow the Spirit, would it not? To do so would be for a Protestant to infer that the Roman Catholics are led by God to offer prayers to Mary, venerate and pray to saints, and idolatry.
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It seems you are attempting to shift the burden of proof here. My goal wasn't to agree or disagree with you, it was to determine how you arrived at your conclusions. I think you answered that question for me with this statement:
I then add up the denominations which I consider to be following rules and practicing legalism...
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
In my experience, the only denominations which make reference to or preach about the power of the Spirit or the inward dwelling of the Spirit for our ability to obey God, are the charismatics/pentecostals, and the Lord's Recovery, and probably certain house churches as well (I am only familiar with major denominations), depending upon their denominational persuasion.
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The reason that I asked about LC context, is because just as I suspected, you have singled out the LC to say that they are one of the few groups who talk about a certain matter. Given my LC experience, when you speak of groups "practicing legalism", I would readily put the LC in that category. In my opinion, this attempt to distinguish regulation and legalism is hodgepodge.
In the LC, they have a lot of unspoken rules - things like how to dress, etc. All of which could be categorized as legalism. If a member were to call it such, they could expect to be corrected and told how we all need to be 'regulated'. In other words, it is at the whim of leaders to determine what is 'regulation' and what is 'legalism'.