This variety of legalism reduces Christianity to a list of do’s and don’ts, a codified system of rigid moralism that is divorced from the covenant context of love. To be sure, God gives rules. He pronounces do’s and don’ts, but the purpose of these rules is to describe for us...
If you break down the doors of a known cocaine lab and you not only don’t find any cocaine, but you also don’t find any lab equipment or paraphernalia (that you know and everyone agrees as undisputed fact was there before) then the big question isn’t “did the police chief lie”?