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In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ 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 Christians do not need to add works to the Gospel of Christ because they are...

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 Lordship does not back load works into the Gospel, but rather works are a...

In Psalms 119:142, God's law is truth, so that is the truth that they did not believe, especially considering that 2 Thessalonians 2:3 describes the antichrist as the man of lawlessness, which is also connected to Christ saying in Matthew 7:23 that he would tell those who are workers of...

You sound like you might be interested in listening to the BEMA podcast, which works through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation for this perspective, and when it gets to the NT, it really hammers home how much of it is rooted in the OT. Still, everything in the NT being a quote or reference...

It is important to be able to try to look at things from different perspectives. I tried interpreting the NT as though the NT authors were in complete agreement with the view of Gods law expressed in the Psalms (which they were) and found that the Bible made much more sense and had much more...

In John 1:14, the Son is God's word made flesh, in Colossians 1:15, the Son is the image of the invisible God, and in Hebrews 1:3, the Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact image of God's nature, so Jesus is the visible embodiment of the invisible aspects of God's nature that God's...

The large number of denomination has much more to do with local autonomy than it has to do with differences in doctrine, though it is not as though there aren't many Catholic denominations.

Deuteronomy 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. A witness needs to be free from sin in the matter that they testified against, otherwise they would be condemning...

"Faith" and "grace" are not concepts that were invented in the NT, but are important concepts throughout the OT. For example, in Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah and he chose the way of faithfulness by...

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...

No. God's laws have circumstances under which they should be obeyed, so even when the law was first given to Moses, there was not a single person who was required to obey all 613 of them, and not even Jesus obeyed the laws in regard to having a period or to giving birth. Some laws were only...

The things that God has chosen to instruct testify about the nature of who he is, for example, we can see that God is wise by seeing that He has given wise instructions, we can see that God is good by seeing that He has given good instructions, and so forth. Likewise, the way that we live...

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of God and that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so he did not leave any room for non-Judeans who are workers of lawlessness to...

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him, so there is no need to jump to another book in order to figure out that doing the will...

The Son is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:5) and the radiance if God's glory and the exact image of God's nature (Hebrews 1:3). God is holy, righteous, good, just, mercy, faithfulness, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control, and so forth, so if all of these...

The issue of how good of job I am doing of obeying the instructions of the God of Israel is independent of the issue of whether His followers should follow His instructions in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow. Even if I were the biggest hypocrite in the world who was...

If I quote Scripture to support my position and you say I'm wrong without explaining why you think that I've misunderstood what I've quoted, then you are disagreeing with what I quoted.

You're free to deny the truth of that verse if you want, but that is what the verse says and I believe that the whole Bible is true. I didn't say that God did that, but a God who does do that would have a different identity than the God of Israel. The things that the God of Israel has...

One that still involves following the Mosaic Law (Jeremiah 31:33). A God who commands His people to commit adultery does not have the same identify as the God of Israel in the same way that a God who commands a covenant with a different set of laws does not have the same identify as the God of...

Is there anyone abiding in Christ who does not also have salvation or vice versa? We can't believe in the work of Christ Jesus and accept his gift while not abiding in him.