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The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of the Mosaic Law, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), or with justice, mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the Mosaic Law (Matthew 23:23), which is...

No, works can be required in the sense that they intrinsically the way to have the experience of doing those works, such as how doing the work of driving a Ferrari for an hour is intrinsically required in order have the gift of that experience, but are not required in the sense of what we are...

The point of physical examples is to teach spiritual truths, but in any case, it is true the experience of doing works are intrinsically part of what the content of a gift of salvation is rather than something that we are required to have done first in order to earn it as the result. Another...

In Romans 10:5-10, it references Deuteronomy 30:11-16 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to saying that God's law is not too difficult to obey, in regard to saying that the one who obeys it will attain life by it, in regard to what we are agreeing to obey by confessing that Jesus is...

Works can be required for any number of purposes other than in order to earn something as the result, so such as works that are intrinsically part of what something is. For example, the content of a gift can itself be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to...

The significance of doing good works is that not that it is part of something that we are required to have done first in order to earn our salvation as the result, but rather the significance is that is is expressing our faith, and it is by that faith that we are being saved. Our good works in...

While Jesus did criticize some Pharisees for their pride and hypocrisy, he did not criticize them for being zealous for obeying the Torah. In Deuteronomy 17:8-13, if gives authority to priests and judges to make rulings about how to obey the Torah that the people were obligated to obey, which...

If Jesus joined this forum, he probably be labeled as a legalist and as a Judaizer.

Pharisees were people and people are not uniform, but individually have a variety of merits and flaws, so we should be like someone insofar as we are emulating their merits, but not insofar as we are emulating their flaws. Pharisees also criticized other Pharisees for their hypocrisy, so Jesus...

While the Pharisees that Jesus was criticizing certainly had faults, it is not as though they had no good qualities either, and it is not as though all Pharisees had those faults. In Luke 12:1, Jesus said to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Again, in Matthew 23:23...

That is a false dichotomy. Jesus set. a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so he was much more zealous for obedience to it than the Pharisees, Sadducees, and teachers of the law and he never criticized them for obey it, but he did criticize them for not obeying it or...

Why do you think that God gave laws with the condition “when you enter the land…” while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years? Because Jeremiah 31:33 states that the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts. Why do you want to be a...

In Exodus 20:6, God wanted His children to love Him and obey His commandments, so the point of the Mosaic Law is to teach us how to love, which means if someone is going through the outward motions apart from love, then they are not actually obeying it. If the Mosaic Law was only commanding our...

In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him without departing from it. Jesus defeated the temptations of Satan by quoting three times from Deuteronomy, so he affirmed its authority.

No you're not holding me to the Torah, but rather you are holding me to. your absurd and unjust standard. Why does it make sense to you to think that the way to be forgiven is by refusing to obey God? We are not required to follow laws when the conditions under which they should be followed...

Why does it make sense to you to think that a just God demands obedience to laws even when they can't be obeyed? There are examples in the Bible of people being forgiven without offering sacrifices.

The way to become righteous is different from what it means for us to become righteous. The only way to attain a character trait is through faith that we ought to be doers of that character trait while becoming someone who has a character trait means to become a doer of that trait. So we...

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Hello, "To fulfill the Law and the Prophets" means "to fulfil, i.e. to cause God's will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God's promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment" (NAS Greek Lexicon). In Acts 18:18, Paul took a vow involving shaving his...

If Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against relaxing the least part of the law or teaching others to relax the least part of it, so fulfilling the law does not refer to abolishing the least part of...