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= Critical Analysis of ''Essentials of Holiness'' by David Bernard = | = Critical Analysis of ''Essentials of Holiness'' by David Bernard = | ||
Bernard wrote this booklet as an accessible primer on holiness for UPCI members and new converts. Much of what he says about the inner life of holiness is genuinely good: holiness flows from love and the Spirit, not from rule-keeping alone; outward conformity without inward transformation is worthless; legalism destroys what it claims to protect. He is right about all of that. But the booklet contains a series of problems that cut against its stated goals. These are not peripheral matters of personal taste. They go to the heart of how to read Scripture, how to apply it, and how to distinguish what the Bible actually says from what we have decided it must say. | Bernard wrote this booklet as an accessible primer on holiness for UPCI members and new converts. Much of what he says about the inner life of holiness is genuinely good: holiness flows from love and the Spirit, not from rule-keeping alone; outward conformity without inward transformation is worthless; legalism destroys what it claims to protect. He is right about all of that. But the booklet contains a series of problems that cut against its stated goals. These are not peripheral matters of personal taste. They go to the heart of how to read Scripture, how to apply it, and how to distinguish what the Bible actually says from what we have decided it must say. | ||