Definition
Antinomianism (from Greek anti = against + nomos = law) is the theological position that Christians are freed from any normative operation of the law, such that moral standards are no longer binding on them. The liberation from the law is interpreted as absolute lawlessness. Warnock rejects antinomianism as a misunderstanding of pneumatological freedom and carefully distinguishes it from the biblical teaching on being led by the Spirit — which encompasses both freedom from the law and holiness.
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George Warnock
Warnock sets antinomianism explicitly against his own pneumatological position. Freedom from the law is for him not lawlessness but the realization of vital union with Christ through the Spirit: “‘If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law’ (Gal. 5:18). God would make us completely free from law in this day of His glory. But it is only as we become captives of the Son that we are really made free.” True liberty consists in being bound to the Son “with bonds of the Spirit which effectually and experimentally liberate one from the former bondage to sin and self.” The Spirit liberates from legalism and from sin — not from one through the other, but from both simultaneously. Antinomianism misses this positive content: it is a negative freedom without the Spirit as living guide. [Warnock, Evening and Morning, Ch. 4]