Judges 17-21 gets dark. Ending with "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit." J. C. Ryle desscribed formalism as "when a person is a Christian in name only, and not in reality - in ourward thigs only and not their inward feelings - in profession only and not in pratice". To redefine God, rather than submit to God. Titus 1:16.
