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You act as though Christians have immigrated to a different God The set of laws that the God of Israel has commanded paint us a picture of the nature of who He is, for example, we can see that God is wise by seeing that He given wise laws, that he is holy, righteous, good, just, merciful...

Can you really not recognize how absurd for it to be foolishness to think that followers of God should follow His instructions in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow? Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and...

While Jesus certainly accomplished much through the cross, there is still the 2nd coming and everything that Revelation says comes with that left to be accomplished. In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that not the least part would disappear until heaven and earth pass away and all is accomplished...

Only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven while Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because never knew them and this fact means that obeying God's law is a requirement in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Our...

Indeed. Generally speaking, the only way to gain a character trait is through faith that we ought to practice it apart from being required to have first practiced it a certain amount as through it could be earned as a wage, but becoming someone who has a character trait through faith means...

There is a huge difference between these two positions: 1.) Our salvation requires us to be obeyers of God. 2.) Our salvation requires us to have first done a certain amount of obedience to God in order to earn it as the result as though it were a wage. In Romans 2:13, only doers of the law...

God's word is about God's word made flesh, not about me. Jesus is the living embodiment of all of the aspects of God's nature that His word was give to teach us how to practice, which are also known as fruits of the Spirit. Jesus living in us is also of the aspects of God's nature being...

The Mosaic Law was never given as instruction for how to do things in our own strength, but rather relying on God's instructions is relying on God. I have kept many of the Mosaic laws. I demonstrated with Scripture that God does not require perfect obedience, so that is not making excuses. We...

In Matthew 1:21, it says that our salvation is from sin, so while that includes being saved from the penalty of sin, our salvation would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while we continued to live in sin. This is why Titus 2:11-14 describes our salvation as being...

In Deuteronomy 30:11-14, it says that God's law is not too difficult for us to keep, so believing that we can keep it is a matter of putting our faith in God's word. Likewise, in 1 John 5:3, to love God is to obey His commandments, which are not burdensome. God's law is His instructions for...

God's law came with instructions for what to do when His people sinned, so it never required us to have perfect obedience. Repentance doesn't change the fact that we have not had perfect obedience, so the fact that repentance has value demonstrates that we do not need to have perfect obedience...

No,I believe that the author of Hebrews is inspired, but then again, I don't interpret Hebrews as speaking against obeying God, whereas anyone who interprets Hebrews as speaking against obeying God should be quicker to think that the author of Hebrews is not inspired than to think that it is a...

Our obedience to God is not about needing to be good enough, but about practicing our faith. In other words our obedience to God is about God giving the gift of salvation to us, not about us earning our salvation as a wage from God for having had good enough obedience.

"To fulfill the law" means "to cause God's will (as made known in His law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo). After Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in Matthew 5:17-20, he then proceeded to fulfill it six times throughout the rest of the chapter by teaching how...

Respecting our parents and caring for their needs with the same responsibility that they cared for us. It is essential the command to love ourselves because by honoring our parent we are expressing that we think that what they created is of great value and by not honoring them we are expressing...

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Mosaic Law, so he did not bring a whole new approach to obeying the Mosaic Law, but rather the sum of everything that he taught by word and by example was in compete accordance with what was taught in the OT. In Matthew 4, when...

In Colossians 2:22, it directly states that what it is speaking against is according to the commandments and doctrines of men, so it should not make sense to you to interpret that as speaking against obeying the commandments of God and to then think that you should obey the commandments of man...

Sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so if he had broken the Sabbath, then he would have sinned and therefore disqualified himself as being our Savior. It is contradictory to think that Jesus was correct about it being lawful to heal on the Sabbath and to think that the Pharisees...

For example, I've fulfilled the righteous requirement of the command to honor my parents by honoring my parents on many occasions.

Jesus set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, including keeping the Sabbath holy, and in Matthew 11:28-30, he was inviting people to come to him for rest and to learn from him, not inviting people to refuse to learn from his example. By Jesus saying...