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You can deny the truth of those verses if you want, but I believe them.

In Galatians 3:15-18, even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. The Mosaic Covenant does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God so as to make the promise void and neither does the New Covenant. If you think that God breaks His promises...

The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8).

Sin is what is contrary to God's eternal character, such as with righteousness being in accordance with God's character while unrighteousness is sin and sin is the transgression of God's law because it was given to divide between what is in accordance with or contrary to God's character. For...

I did not make up my own definitions. Something is no longer used or out of date because it has been replaced by something else that does the same thing better and if there is not something that does the same thing better, then it has not been made obsolete.

Hebrews 8:13 does not contradict Jeremiah 31:33. The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if the New Covenant does everything that it does plus more, which is what it means to make something obsolete...

In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so those who do not want to obey the Torah also do not want to be under the New Covenant, and the Torah contains 613 mitzvoth.

"It" referred back to God's law, which consists of the laws that God has commanded. I've said nothing about needed to to obey God's law with a certain frequency in order to become saved, but rather I said that God graciously teaching his to obey His law is the way that he is giving us His gift...

According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has ever loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so countless people have fulfilled it. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far form him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith...

God's law straightforwardly consists of the things that He has commanded and God graciously teaching us to obey it is the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation.

None of the verses that I cited said anything about perfect obedience, but rather you are fundamentally misunderstanding those verses by trying to insert perfect obedience into them. Even if someone managed to have perfect obedience, then they still wouldn’t earn their salvation as the result...

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that tithing was something that they ought to be doing while not neglecting weather matters of the law, so he was not opposing what they were doing, but was calling them to have a higher level of obedience to God's law in a manner that is in accordance with its...

The problem with speaking about the ceremonial law is that the authors of the Bible never listed which laws are part of the ceremonial law and never even referred to that as being a category of law. If a group of people were to create lists of which laws they thought were part of the ceremonial...

The existence of the moral law would imply that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that aren't in that category, however, therefore a no examples in the Bible where disobedience to God is described as being moral and I see no justification for thinking that it can ever be moral...

God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of His laws for how to testify about His righteousness are also eternal (Psalms 119:142), so indeed the way to be a doer of righteous works does not change. While the only way for someone to become righteous is having faith that...

Well, the verse above says, "for the letter kills". Romans 7:9-10 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me. The scripture tells us directly that, "the...

I did not defy or deny any of the doctrines laid out by Paul, but rather I am in complete agreement with him.

In Acts 15:1, men from Judea were wanting to require Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, this was never the purpose for which God commanded circumcision, so the Jerusalem Council upheld God's law by correctly ruling against requiring circumcision for an incorrect...

Please explain why you consider what I said to be mental gymnastics.

In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, so "works of the law" are of works while he said in Romans 3:31 that our faith upholds the Law of God, so it is of faith. Likewise, Paul said that our faith upholds the Law of God in contrast with saying in Galatians 3:10-12...