In Christianity, an antinomian is one who takes the principle of salvation by faith and divine grace to the logical endpoint by asserting that the “saved” are not bound to follow the Law of Moses, leading to the rejecting of God’s laws written in the Torah, known as the old testament.

The distinction between antinomian and other Christian views on moral law is that antinomians believe that obedience to the law is motivated by an internal principle flowing from belief rather than from any external compulsion.

The term antinomianism emerged soon after the protestant Reformation (c.1517) and has been used as a pejorativeagainst Christian thinkers and sects who carried their belief in justification by faith further than was customary.

Theologically, antinomianism is the belief that there are no moral laws God expects Christians to obey.

“Do what feels right to you”

This makes antinomianism an exaggeration of justification by faith alone.