What is anne hutchinsons heretical belief that the truly saved need not obey human or divine laws?
Hutchinson believed that salvation is a gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ, whereas other Protestants at the time focused on salvation through good works. Because God is omniscient, he already knows who will be saved or not. Thus, she also claimed the ability to tell who these saved people (“the elect”) are. Her reasoning was a little convoluted, but basically someone who is elect needn’t worry about human or divine law because they are already saved. (Of course, an elect person would act in a godly way by definition.) Because all this implied that human or divine laws were irrelevant, she was characterized as an anarchist or “antinomian” heretic by other religious thinkers, and she was tried and imprisoned on this basis.
