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Foreshadows testify about what is to come and we should live in a way that testifies about the truth of what is to come by obeying God's law rather than a way that denies the truth of what is to come. For example, in 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, Paul spoke in regard to how Passover foreshadowed Christ...

Abraham has was made righteous by faith (Genesis 15:6) and this is the only way to become righteous that is testified about in the Law and the Prophets (Romans 3:21-22), so that was the way to become righteous under the Mosaic Covenant. The point of the sacrificial system as always been to...

Indeed, each covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8). In Galatians 3:16-19, a new covenant does not nullify the promise of a covenant that has already been ratified, so again the New Covenant does not nullify the Mosaic Covenant. In Isaiah 1, the problem was not with offering...

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 includes everything in it plus more, which is what it means to make something obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). So the New Covenant still involves...

The Bible often uses the same terms to describe aspects of the nature of the Mosaic Law as it does to describe aspects of the nature of God, 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...

If a group of people were to create lists of which of God's laws they thought were moral, ceremonial, or civil laws, then they would end up with a wide variety of lists and none of those people who interpret the authors of the Bible as referring to a list of laws that they just created. For...

Christianity is a religion by definition and there is no need to deny this reality in order to emphasize that it is a religion that teaches how to have a relationship with God. Even the concept that we can have a personal relationship with God is inherently religious. Jesus set a perfect...

God's law is spiritual (Romans 7:14), so it has always been intended to teach us deeper spiritual principles that are aspects of His nature and the way to know Him. God's nature is eternal, so all of His laws for how to testify about His nature are there also eternal, which is why Psalms...

Is it your position that Christ is of no value to someone who becomes circumcised for any reason? So you think that Paul caused Christ to be of no value to Timothy and Christ is of no value to roughly 80% of the men in the US? There is a clear distinction between speaking against...

In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts. In Romans 3:20, it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of sin and there are many instances where the Apostles called for repentance from sin. The Bible repeatedly connects...

In Deuteronomy 30:11-14, it says that God's law is not too difficult to obey and Romans 10:5-8 quotes that passage as the word of faith that we proclaim, so believing that we can be doers of the law is not a matter of exalting ourselves, but a matter of having faith in God's word. Moreover...

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

There is no "but" in the Greek in John 1:17, rather John 1:16 says grace upon grace, so it is speaking about one example of grace being added upon another. In Psalms 119:29, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and he...

In Matthew 4, Jesus consistently proceeded a quote from what was written by saying "it is written", but in Matthew 5, he consistently proceeded a quote from what the people have heard being said by saying "you have heard that it was said...", so his emphasis on the different from of...

Jesus set a perfect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so he was much more zealous for obedience to it than the Pharisees and he never criticized them for obeying it, but he did criticize them for not obeying it or for not obeying it correctly. For example...

The Mosaic Law has 613 commandments, that is sensible. Even when the first law was given to given to Moses, there was not a single person who was required to by every single law, as you note some were for women, so not even Jesus obeyed those laws, so there is nothing wrong with not obeying a...

Feel free to pick a paragraph, this thread grew quickly, so I addressed a number of your posts to catch up.

Jesus had faith in the nature of God, and Jesus is the exact image of God's nature, so the content of what Jesus had faith in is identical to the content of what we have faith in when we have faith in him, or in other words the faith of Jesus is the same as the faith in Jesus, so it doesn't...

In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, it says that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life. In Romans 10:5-8, it references Deuteronomy 30:11-20 as the word of faith that we proclaim...

Paul spoke about multiple different categories of law other than the Law of God, such as the law of sin and works of the law, so it is important to correctly identify which law he was referring to, otherwise you'll end up making the mistake of interpreting a servant of God as teaching us to...