What is Antinomianism, and how is it related to dispensationalism?

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I’ve been reading about William Huntington SS, and in one of his letters he refers to himself as a Antinomian. Further reading has quoted something of dispensational Antinomianism,and appear to put them in the light of false teachings, but I am struggling to understand the concept.

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The Old Testament contains a bunch of direct commandments from God – [613](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments) by the most commonly accepted count. Christians believe that the civil and ceremonial commandments no longer apply to them, only the moral commandments. So any commandment about “this is how you run a temple” or “this is how you govern” is nullified. They do generally consider themselves bound by the moral “this is how you be a good person” commandments, most notably the [10 commandments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Numbering) given to Moses in Exodus.

Antinomianism is the belief that the moral commandments are nullified as well – Jesus died for *all* of humanity’s sins, so it doesn’t matter. Generally people believe you still *should* follow them – because that’s still how to be a good person – but there are no spiritual consequences backing it up.

Many branches of the American Evangelical movement believe in what they phrase as “faith not works” which is a variety of antinomian belief. For a quick articulation of what they mean by that, you can see the Chick Tract [*Flight 144*](https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=41).

edit: dispensationalism is the general belief that every so often God changes the rules. There was one set of rules for the Garden of Eden, another set of rules for the period between the fall and the great flood, another set from the great flood to the tower of Babel, then from Abraham to Moses, Moses to the crucifixion, the crucifixion to the second coming, and the second coming to the end of the world. It’s not based on anything explicit in the Bible, just the way the rules do seem to change every so often. God hangs out with Adam and Eve personally; humans lived for hundreds of years between the Fall and Babel, then God picks a favorite tribe of humans and gives them hundreds of laws and starts smiting a lot more often on a much smaller scale, then he sacrifices his son to himself and suddenly gets really hands-off.