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God gave the law to Israel for the purpose of equipping them to be a light and a blessing to the nations by turning them from their wickedness and teaching them to obey it in accordance with the promise and with spreading the Gospel (see my last post). Christ spent his ministry teaching his...

Those who have the motive to rebel against God will have no problems with finding ways to interpret God's word as promoting rebellion against him while those who have the motive of promoting obedience to God through faith will have no problems with correctly interpreting God's word as promoting...

There is no "but" in the Greek in John 1:17, rather John 1:16 says grace upon grace, so it using a parallel statement to speak about one example of grace being added upon another. In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and in Psalms...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, 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, which is in accordance with Jesus...

In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Law of Moses, and in Psalms 119:142, the Law of Moses is truth, so grace and truth came through Jesus because he spent his ministry teaching is followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example. When Jesus...

There is a difference between the way to become righteous and what we are becoming when we become righteous. The only way to become righteous is through faith that we ought to be doers of righteous works alone apart from being required to have first done a certain amount of righteous works in...

Agreed, though the point is that they were not speaking against circumcision for the purposes for which God commanded it, for example, in Genesis 12:48, it requires a Gentile to become circumcised in order to eat of the Passover lamb. Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only...

In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was not asked about which were the only commands that we should obey, but about which was the greatest commandment, and the existence of the greatest two commandments implies that there are still other commandments that we should still obey. If someone who loves God...

Jesus is the embodiment of God's word (John 1:14), so the way to believe in Jesus is by embodying God's word through following his example. The Son is the exact image of God's character (Hebrews 1:3), so the way that we live testifies about his character. For example, our good works testify...

It is not enough to be just be hearers of sound doctrine, but we also need to be doers of it: James 1:19-27 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away...

Either Paul only spoke against becoming circumcised for incorrect reasons or according to Galatians 5:2, Christ is of no value to roughly 80% of the men in the US and Paul caused Christ to be of no value to Timothy when he had him circumcised right after they Jerusalem Council (Acts 16:3). In...

Indeed, all of the law and the prophet hang on the greatest two commandments because everything commanded in them is an example of how to correctly love God and our neighbor, so it is contradictory to think that we should obey the greatest two commandments, but not the commandments that hang on...

Romans 7:21-25 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24...

In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was not asked about which were the only commandments that we should still follow, but about what the greatest commandment is, and the existence of the greatest two commandments implies that other commandments that are not the greatest two still exist. The point of...

Indeed, we all have opinions and we all think that our opinions are correct, otherwise they wouldn’t continue to be our opinions. However, not all opinions are created equal. We have all held incorrect opinions in the past and we will probably all hold incorrect opinions in the future, so the...

The goal of a disciple is to learn from their rabbi how to obey the Mosaic Law by following what they taught by word and by example, which Christ taught his disciples to do, so it is contradictory for you to claim that we can’t be a disciple of Christ while trying to observe the Mosaic Law, but...

If you disagree with my position without establishing that I have misunderstood the verses that I used to support my position, then you are denying the truth of those verses.

Our salvation is from sin and sin is the transgression of God’s law, so God’s law does not just show us our need for a Savior, but also shows us the way that he is saving us from continuing to live in sin.

In Romans 7:12-13, Paul said that the Law of God is good and that it is not that which is good that brought death to him, yet you are trying to use his words to say that it is that which is good that brought death to him. David said repeatedly throughout the Psalms that he loved the Law of...

In Romans 7:22-23, Paul said that he delighted in obeying the Law of God, but contrasted that with the law of sin, and Romans 7:6 speaks about being released from the law that held us captive, so it would make much more sense to interpret him as speaking about being released from the law of sin...