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I don't claim to have perfect obedience to God's law, but to fulfill the law you just need to correctly do what it instructs. When a husband is fulfilling his marriage vows he is correctly acting in accordance with what he has vowed. God's law was never given as a means of saving ourselves...

Where did you get that definition and why are you rejecting the definition from the NAS Greek Lexicon? According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has ever loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so again it refers to correctly obeying it as it should be. Moreover, it refers to...

“To fulfill the law” means “to cause God’s will (as made known by the law) to be obeyed as it should be” (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo). That doesn’t follow, but rather the opposite is true. The Gospel is based on the premise that we can keep God’s law because there would be no point in calling...

n James 2:1-11, he was speaking to people who had sinned by committing favoritism, so he was not telling them that he needed to have perfect obedience because that would have already been too late and he was not discouraging them from trying to keep God's law, but rather he was encouraging them...

The Law of God leads us to do what is godly, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) while the law of sin leads us in the opposite direction by staring up sinful passion in order to bear fruit unto death (Romans 7:5), so Paul is contrasting the two laws throughout this passage. In Romans 6:14, Paul...

While I agree that the only way to attain the promises is by faith, the content of what is promised is in regard to obeying God's law. In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of Go is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and God's...

In Romans 7:21-8:2, Paul said that he delighted in obeying the Law of God and that he served it with his mind, but contrasted it with the law of sin that was waging war against the law of his mind, that held him captive, and which he served with his flesh. Furthermore, he said that the Law of...

The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of God's law, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) or with justice mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the law (Matthew 23:23), which is because it is...

I used God's word to support what I said, so my argument is not with God's word, but with your incorrect interpretation of it. If the Mosaic Covenant were made of no effect, so would be its promises, and God would be a breaker of His promises. The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17...

Sin is what is contrary to God's character, such as with unrighteousness being sin, and sin is the transgression of God's law because it was given to teach us how to be a doer of His character traits. The law can't give us knowledge of what is unrighteous without also giving us knowledge of how...

Nowhere does the Bible say that was why God's law was given, but rather it says the opposite. In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referenced Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to proclaiming that God's law is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life...

In Galatians 3:16-19, a new covenant does not nullify the promises of a covenant that has already been ratified, so God's covenants are cumulative. 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 Mosaic Law, and he chose...

In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked, so verses that refer to those who are in Christ are only referring to those who are following his example of walking in obedience to God's law. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by...

A gift can be the experience of doing something, such as with giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari for an hour, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have that experience, but where doing that work contributes nothing...

God's law came with instructions for what to do when His children sinned, so it never requires us to have perfect obedience. Repentance doesn't doesn't change the fact that we have not had perfect obedience, so if we needed to have perfect obedience, then repentance would have no value, but the...

Believing in Jesus is synonymous with believing on his name. The way to believe in God is by directing our lives towards being in His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, by being a doer of good works in obedience to God's law we testifying about His goodness...

Hello. If God were acting against His grace when He taught us His law, then He would be divided against Himself, which is absurd, but rather the Bible shows that God is gracious to us by teaching us to obey His law. For example, in Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him...

Many of God's laws have conditions under which they should be followed and there is nothing wrong with not following them when their conditions are not met. For example, the Israelites were given a numbers of laws that had the condition "when you enter the land..." while they were still...

Agreed, though the point is that being the hands and feet of Jesus is part of the content of what his gift of salvation is, not the result of it.

I was just basing my view on Titus 2:11-13, which doesn’t say that we are required to have first done those works and then we will be saved as the result or that we need to become saved first and then we will do those works as the result, but rather it describes our salvation and God being...