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Where did God accept people without reference to obedience to His instructions? God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to have faith in God is obey obeying His instructions and it is contradictory to have faith in God while not having faith...

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 His law, and he chose the way of faithfulness by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Exodus 33:13, Moses...

There is no transition from law to grace, but rather righteousness and graciousness have always been eternal character traits of God, which He expressed throughout both the OT and the NT. For example, in Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him...

God working in us the will to do good works is still describing the aspect of our salvation in the present. Good works are not the result or the cause of our salvation, but rather doing them is itself the content of the gift of God saving us from not doing good works. Genesis 15:1-6 clearly...

If what we are doing is just the fruit of having first been saved, then it is something different than our salvation, but it says to work out our salvation. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself both to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of His own possession who are...

Before God and man because choosing to do works is the way to have faith and we are justified before by that faith. In Proverbs 3:5-7, we have a choice between leaning on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own eyes or trusting in God with all of our heart by...

Working out our salvation is an aspect of our salvation that is ongoing in the present in regard to Jesus saving us from continuing to live in sin. I did not claim that works proceed faith, but that works are the way to have faith. Equivalently, obeying the word of God is the way to have...

I agree that James agrees with Paul, which is why I think Paul was speaking about not being justified by works that are done to earn it as a wage while James was speaking about being justified by works that are an expression of our faith. I do not think that our faith is the result of our works...

There is an aspect of our salvation that is ongoing in the present where we are being saved from continuing to live in sin by being led to live in accordance with God's character (Philippians 2:12, Titus 2:11-14). Practicing God's character traits is practicing the fruit of the Spirit, which is...

The laws that someone choses to give paint us a picture of their character, so we see that someone is wise by seeing that they have given wise laws, we see that someone is foolish by seeing that they have given foolish laws, and so forth, and a wise person does not give stupid laws. So if I...

The issue is that the content of a gift can itself be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari for an hour, where the gift requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have that experience, but where doing that work...

James states that Abraham was justified by his works, so there is a sense that we are justified by our works, though not in order to earn it as a wage.

While I agree that there are no works that we are required to do first in order to become justified as the result (Romans 4:1-5), that does not mean that our justification does not require us choose to be doers of God's law (Romans 2:13), so there must be a reason why our justification requires...

In Ephesians 2:10, we are new creations in Christ to do good works, so while Ephesians 2:8-9 deny that our salvation is the result of our works, it does not deny that doing good works is intrinsically part of our salvation from not doing good works. For example, while it is not the case that we...

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I spoke in regard to what it means to live in sin and its connection to what it means to have never seen or known God, and to what it means to be born of God and why we can't live in sin, so it is not clear to me why you think that I did not answer your question.

God's eternal nature is truth, sin is what is contrary to God's nature, and God's law is His instructions for how to testify about His nature, which is why God's righteousness is eternal and God's law is truth (Psalms 119:142), and the sum of God's word is truth and all of God's righteous laws...

Knowing God is an experience, such as a man having a relationship with his wife is an experience. God has given instructions for how to experience knowing Him through testifying about His nature. In Titus 3:4-6, it denies that we need to have first done works in order to become saved, but it...

God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of His instructions for how to testify about His righteousness are also eternal (Psalms 119:160), and if those instructions were to ever change, then God's righteousness would not be eternal. So Hebrews 7:12 could not be referring...

In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so being saved from continuing to live in sin is an ongoing process. Moreover, in Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all...