Legalism Divides Churches

Legalists love to act like God by making the rules for everyone else. Legalists love rules about rules. Legalists love rules about who gets to make the rules about the rules. Legalists love rules about who gets to enforce the rules made by the people who the rules were appointed to make the rules about the rules.

Legalists love rules about who gets to interpret the rules that rule. Legalists get perfectly euphoric when they get to enact the rules punishing people who break the rules as interpreted by those appointed by the rules. In the end, legalists want to rule through rules and wield their rules like weapons to divide the church body into bloodied parts.