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Direct Answer Based on David Bercot’s teaching, God gave Jesus’ commands to be plain and lived out by ordinary kingdom citizens, not treated as optional or “advanced.” He warns that when people learn Christianity mainly “through Paul” (as filtered by theologians), they can be taught to minimize Jesus and slide into “lawlessness,” which is spiritually dangerous.

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• He says the Five Laws “should be no need” to preach because they’re “so obvious to anyone who reads the words of Jesus,” yet they are “denied” or “minimized.”
• He criticizes the claim that “there are no laws once you get saved,” calling it a way Christians “get around” Jesus’ words.
• He says this is “very likely” if you came to Christ “indirectly… through the writings of Paul rather than through the teachings of Jesus.”
• He insists “there is no contradiction between Paul and Jesus,” but “theologians have taken Paul’s words totally out of context” and built a Christianity where Jesus’ teachings are ignored.
• He links this to “lawlessness” in Matthew 7: “Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.”