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In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, it says that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to follow and that following it brings life and a blessing while not following it brings death and a curse, so choose life! So it was presented as a possibility and as a choice not as something that no one can do...

Obeying God's law is not about earning a certain result, but about the gift of having a certain experience. The content of a gift can itself be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to drive a Ferrari for an hour, where the gift requires them to do the work...

There is no "thus he declared" in the Greek, but even if that translation were correct, it wouldn't be saying that we can eat unclean animals. The things that count as food vary from culture to culture, so we should consider the people to speaking about what they considered to be food rather...

Please quote where the prophets said that God would abolish the Law of Moses. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our mind and writing it on our hearts, and in Ezekiel 36:26-27, it involves God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh...

Agreed. While Paul denied in Romans 4:1-5 that we can earn our justification as the result of our obedience to God's law, Paul also said in Romans 2:13 that only doers of the law will be justified, so there must be a reason why our justification requires us to choose to be doers of the law...

Christ set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by living obedience to the Torah, so he is the most religious person who has ever lived and the way to do his will is by following his example.

We should learn from Israel's rebellion against the Mosaic Law as an example of what we should avoid doing, not as an example for us to emulate (1 Corinthians 10:1-13),

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example and following him is not just for Jewish believers, but also for Gentiles. Either Acts 15:19-21 contains an exhaustive list of everything that would ever be required for a mature Gentile believer or...

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 God's law 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...

That is not the point at all. In Deuteronomy 30:11-20, it says that God's law is not too difficult obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! So it was presented as a possibility and as a choice, not as something that...

In Romans 10:5-8, our faith references Deuteronomy 30:11-16 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to saying that God's law is not too difficult for us to obey, in regard to saying that the one who obeys it will attain life by it, in regard to what we are agreeing to obey by confessing...

In Titus 2:11-13, it doesn't say that we save ourselves. by doing those works, but rather it describes our salvation as God be gracious to us by teaching us to do those works. If you don't accept the truth of those verses, then you should be straightforward about it. Works can be done for any...

Someone who is trying to save themselves is not relying on anyone else, so it is contradictory to think that someone is trying to save themselves by obediently relying on God’s instructions. God’s law was not given as instructions for how to save ourselves, but rather God graciously teaching us...

In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God, so obedience to God is part of the way to receive the Spirit, however, Galatians 3:1-3 denies that “works of the law” are part of the way to receive the Spirit, therefore that phrase does not refer to obedience to God. In Romans...

If that were the case, then God wouldn’t have needed to give a sacrificial system in the first place because we wouldn’t be the ones who are at fault for failing to do something that was beyond our ability to do.

Indeed, you were responding to someone else, but you made a statement that you falsely attributed to God, so I objected. In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contacted the Law of God with the law of sin and contrasted the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus with the law of sin and death, so he...

The 613 Mizvot.

Jews were responsible for copying, maintaining, and teaching from Torah scrolls, which Gentiles did not have, so if a Gentile wanted access to a Torah scroll, then they needed to go through a Jew to do it. However, if you own a copy of the Bible, then you do have the law, you can see what God...

God's law was never given as a means of attaining righteousness in the first place, so it can't be abolished as a means of doing that. In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus specifically said that he came not to abolish the law and warned against relaxing the least part of it or teaching others to do the...

If God commanded something that was beyond our ability to achieve, then we could rightly blame God for our failure to achieve it, which is why God gave commands that are not too difficult for us to obey (Deuteronomy 30:11-14, Romans 10:5-8).