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Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as those works as done to earn a wage (Romans 11:6), however, works can be done for any number of other reasons that are compatible with grace, which is why there are many verses that connect God's grace with...

In Exodus 20:6, God wanted His people to love Him and obey His commandments, so obedience to God has always been a matter of the heart. If obedience to God's law were about having an outward performance, then God would not have disdained it when His people honored Him with their lips while...

There is a big difference between these two statements: 1) You shall not commit murder 2) This person has been charged with committing murder. The first is an example of a law that is for our own good while the second is an example of a handwritten ordinance that was nailed to someone's cross...

Because I've never done that. Likewise, I've never done any of the things listed in Leviticus 18.

Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

Nowhere is that stated in the Bible, but just the opposite. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus came to free us from any of God's laws, but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming...

The same God who gave the law to Moses also sent Jesus in fulfillment of the promise to turn us from our wickedness in disobedience to it (Acts 3:25-26), so the there is no disagreement about the way that we should live. Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the...

The Hebrews word "yada" refers to intimate relational knowledge gained through experience, such as in Genesis 4:1, Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. The Mosaic Covenant is often described in terms of being a marriage relationship between God and Israel, so the purpose...

Romans 3:1-2 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. Jews being entrusted with the oracles of God is what it means to have the law. In other words, Gentiles did not have Torah...

You neglected to answer my question. In Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is the Mosaic Law, and in 1 John 3:7, everyone who is a doer of righteous works is righteous even as they are righteous. For God to be righteous means that He is a doer of righteous works and it would...

What is in our heart flows through our actions. In Proverbs 3:5-7, we have a choice between whether we are going to lean on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own eyes or whether we are going to trust in God with all of our heart to correctly divide between...

That is a false dichotomy. Aspects God's nature are fruits of the Spirit and God's law is His instructions for how to express aspects of the Spirit, so it is His instructions for how to walk in the Spirt, which is why Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on...

Believing Gentiles are doers of the Mosaic Law by partaking in the divine nature. The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the nature of God as it does to describe the nature of the Mosaic Law, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), or with justice, mercy, and...

It is a sin for someone to commit murder regardless of whether or not they want to follow the law against committing murder, they should understand what it means to commit murder regardless of whether or not they want to follow that law, and the same goes for God's other laws. It would be...

The purpose for which God's law was given remains the same regardless of Israel going through redemption cycles of disobedience and repentance. Israel is a light and a blessing the nations either by being an example for us to follow or by being an example for us to avoid following, and in 1...

Keeping the Sabbath holy testifies that God sanctifies us, so those who believe that to be true will live in a way that testifies about its truth by keeping the Sabbath holy.

The Bible repeatedly connects living in obedience to God's commandments with light and sin in disobedience to God's commandment with darkness (Proverbs 6:23, Psalms 119:105, 1 John 1:5-7) and never describes living in disobedience to God's commandments as living in the light.

Though the commandments were given to Israel in order to equip them to be a light and a blessing to the Gentiles by turning the Gentiles from their wickedness and teaching them to obey it in accordance with the promise and with spreading the Gospel. In Isaiah 56, the Sabbath is clearly also for...

The purpose of the 613 laws of Moses is to teach us how to love God and our neighbor, which is why Jesus said that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so someone who goes through the motions of obeying the Mosaic Law without love is...

I don't recall the Bible saying that. The content of a gift can itself be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari for an hour, where the gift requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have that experience, but where...