For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction - Newton's 3rd law We're familiar with this law in the physical world, but I believe it holds true for the metaphysical and in particular, theology. In other words, "for every faulty belief there is an equal and opposite faulty belief." Does this sound familiar? It may not for you, but I can point to several instances in my own life. Have a bad experience with church leadership? Leave the local church and be a lone ranger. See people you know fall for the prosperity gospel? Make a certain level of remorse and repentance a necessary requirement for salvation? See people misuse the love of God as a license to sin? Make God's love parsimonious and conditional on behavior. Probably the two primary opposite categories in which many of the previous examples fall are antinomianism versus legalism . But unfortunately, we have a propensity to over-correct. Or as my wise daughter says, if we're afraid of b...