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HRM teachers hammer these two verses and claim:
• "Commandments" = the whole Torah (Sabbath, feasts, fringes, etc.)
• "Lawlessness/anomia" = not keeping the written Torah
• Therefore, any Christian who doesn't observe Mosaic Law is a liar and walking in the same "sin" John condemns.
Why this is incorrect
• John himself defines which commandments he's talking about just a few verses later:
1 John 3:23 - "And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another..."
→ Faith + love = the commandment for believers under the New Covenant.
• John uses the same word "anomia/lawlessness" in 1 John 3:4 that Jesus uses in Matthew 7:23 and Matthew 13:41 - it always refers to rebellion against God and rejection of Christ, not failure to keep kosher or Sabbath. The people Jesus calls "workers of lawlessness" in Matt 7:23 are false prophets who never truly knew Him.
• In the same letter John says:
1 John 5:3 - "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
Keeping 613 Torah laws (with stoning penalties) would be massively burdensome; believing in Jesus and loving the brothers is not burdensome.
So yes, he's incorrect and using the standard HRM proof-text combo.

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