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Indeed, I have made that claim, so I will defend it. In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God. In Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law, in John 16:13, the Spirit has the role of leading us in truth, and in Psalms 119:142, the...

Indeed, while we should listen to the word of Christ, Christ is one with the Father, so he should not be interpreted as leading us to rebel against Him, but rather the sum of everything that he taught by word and by example was to lead us to obey the Mosaic Law. I think that Paul is an...

In Acts 18:18, Paul took vow involving shaving his head and only vow prescribed in the Bible that involves doing that is a Nazarite vow, which involves making offerings (Numbers 6). Likewise, in Acts 21:20-24, Paul planned to play for the offerings of others in order to disprove false rumors...

I'm not made that claim so I'm not going to defend it. The Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law (Ezekiel 36:26-27), so if someone claimed that the Spirit leads us to rebel against it, then that would be the clearest indication that their claim is false. It is absurd to...

Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so while we do not earn our salvation as the result of having first obeyed it, living in obedience to it through faith in Jesus is nevertheless intrinsically the content of...

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 the Law of Moses 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...

I've already responded to this in post #65: https://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/sunday-worship.212861/page-4#post-5174118

If I were lost and asked someone for directions, then by following their instructions I would be relying on them and thinking that I was relying on myself to save myself from being lost by following their instructions would not be giving credit where it is due. Likewise, it is not giving credit...

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to the Mosaic Law, and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message, so it would be absurd to interpret Galatians 5:4 as Paul warning us against obeying God and saying that we will be cut off from...

If that is the case, then it is necessary to distinguish between the good Judaizers who are teaching to follow Christ and the bad Juaizers that Paul was speaking against.

Something that is our own endeavor does not involve relying on anyone else, so it is contradictory to consider obediently relying on what God's instructions to be our own endeavor, but rather obediently relying on God's instructions is the way to obey by the power of Christ. Likewise, the...

There is a huge difference between the position that we are required to obey God's commands (which many verses support) and the position that we are required to have first obeyed God's commands in order to earn our salvation (which many verses deny). We should not mistake the Bible speaking...

Is there are room for discussion about what exactly was the problem with the Judaizers? It should not make sense to you think that that Paul's problem with the Judaizers was that they were teaching how to follow Christ. Rather, the position of the Judaizers that is that Gentiles should be...

We are not required to have first obeyed the Mosaic Law in order to earn our salvation as the result - that was never the reason for why we should obey it, so I support Paul’s stance against the Judaizers.

You are blatantly taking that out of context. The issue of Mary and Martha was about their priorities, not about someone choosing to obey God making the wrong choice as opposed to someone choosing to rebel against His commands. Obedience to God has nothing to do with pride, God's law is not...

There is a difference between a law being too difficult to obey and a law not having its conditions men. For example, men can't follow the laws in regard to having a period or to giving birth because men don't meet the condition of being women, not because they are too difficult to obey. There...

In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he might know Him and Israel too, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so knowing God and Jesus is the...

Jesus didn't follow the laws in regard to having a period or to giving birth, but that does not mean that he was sinning, so it is not a sin to not follow a law that can't be followed. If someone does break a law that they should be following, then they need to repent and return to keeping it...

I don't see how your question relates to the post that you replied to. The issue of what I keeping is independent of the issue of whether followers of God should follow what God has commanded in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow. I do obey the Mosaic Law, though even...

The Israelites were given a number of laws that had the condition "when you enter the land..." while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years, so there is nothing wrong with not following a law that can't currently be followed. When the Israelites were exiled in Babylon, the...