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Jesus saving us from living in transgression of the Torah by leading us to live in obedience to it is as straightforward as it gets.

Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:22) and it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so by claiming that Jesus didn’t follow the Torah to set an example for us to follow, you are essentially denying that Jesus came to save us. In Acts 3:25-26, Jesus was sent in...

I said that I don't claim to be sinless in the sense that I don't claim that I have never sinned, not in the sense that I have not had my sins forgiven. The works of the flesh are all against the Mosaic Law, so the position that Christians have died to works of the flesh is the portion that...

The Bible notably does not state that the Torah is external rules, but rather it repeatedly connects our love for Gods with our obedience to in. If the Torah were only external rules, then God would not have disdained it when His children honored Him with their lips while their hearts were far...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Torah was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the...

If God saved the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt in order to put them under bondage to His law, then it would be for bondage that God sets us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for freedom that God sets us free. In Psalms 119:142, God’s law is truth, and in John 8:31-36, it is the...

If someone understands a verse as saying something absurd, such as interpreting Psalms 14:1 as denying the existence of God, then they should have the self-awareness to recognize that they must have misunderstood it or that if they have correctly understood it that they should reject the truth...

The way to walk in the Spirit is by expressing aspects of God's character through obeying His law, which is why the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey it (Ezekiel 36:26-27), why Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God...

I think that you should have major problems with how you are interpreting those verses as speaking against obeying what God has commanded, but even if your interpretation were correct, then according to God's word in Deuteronomy 13:1-5, you should consider the author of Hebrews to be a false...

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In 1 John 2:6, it does not say that those who are in Christ do not need to walk in the same way he walked, but rather it says that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked. Those who refuse to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law should not consider themselves to...

The way to become righteous is different from what it means to become righteous. The only way to attain a character trait in general is through faith that we ought to be doers of that character trait and what it means to attain a character trait is to become someone who is a doer of that trait...

Does the devil have the role of leading us to obey what God has commanded or leading us away from obeying what God has commanded?

If that is your interpretation of those verses, then I see three main options: #1) You can think that it is absurd to interpret a servant of God as promoting rebellion against God's word and conclude that you must have misunderstood those verses. #2) You can think that it is absurd to...

Not formal training, I've mostly just spent over 20 years studying and discussing theology on forums.

Hello, The Hebrew word "yada" refers to intimate relational knowledge gained through experience, such as in Genesis 4:1, where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. The Bible starts and ends with the Tree of Life and everything in between is essentially about how to...

God's law came with instructions for what to do when the people sinned, so it never required us to have perfect obedience. Repentance doesn't change the fact that we have not had perfect obedience, so the fact that we can repent after we have not had perfect obedience and still be saved again...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom...

Sorry if I was not clear. Do you grant that our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while we continued to live in sin, so there must be an aspect of our salvation that we are experience in the present by obeying God's instructions? In...

In Acts 15:11, it makes it clear that yoke that no one could bear in Acts 15:10 was not referring to the Mosaic Law, but to a means of salvation that is an alternative to salvation by grace, namely salvation by circumcision that was proposed by the men from Judea in Acts 15:1. In Deuteronomy...