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According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has ever loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so countless people have fulfilled it. In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far form him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith...

God's law straightforwardly consists of the things that He has commanded and God graciously teaching us to obey it is the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation.

None of the verses that I cited said anything about perfect obedience, but rather you are fundamentally misunderstanding those verses by trying to insert perfect obedience into them. Even if someone managed to have perfect obedience, then they still wouldn’t earn their salvation as the result...

In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that tithing was something that they ought to be doing while not neglecting weather matters of the law, so he was not opposing what they were doing, but was calling them to have a higher level of obedience to God's law in a manner that is in accordance with its...

The problem with speaking about the ceremonial law is that the authors of the Bible never listed which laws are part of the ceremonial law and never even referred to that as being a category of law. If a group of people were to create lists of which laws they thought were part of the ceremonial...

The existence of the moral law would imply that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that aren't in that category, however, therefore a no examples in the Bible where disobedience to God is described as being moral and I see no justification for thinking that it can ever be moral...

God's righteousness is eternal (Psalms 119:142), therefore all of His laws for how to testify about His righteousness are also eternal (Psalms 119:142), so indeed the way to be a doer of righteous works does not change. While the only way for someone to become righteous is having faith that...

Well, the verse above says, "for the letter kills". Romans 7:9-10 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me. The scripture tells us directly that, "the...

I did not defy or deny any of the doctrines laid out by Paul, but rather I am in complete agreement with him.

In Acts 15:1, men from Judea were wanting to require Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, this was never the purpose for which God commanded circumcision, so the Jerusalem Council upheld God's law by correctly ruling against requiring circumcision for an incorrect...

Please explain why you consider what I said to be mental gymnastics.

In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, so "works of the law" are of works while he said in Romans 3:31 that our faith upholds the Law of God, so it is of faith. Likewise, Paul said that our faith upholds the Law of God in contrast with saying in Galatians 3:10-12...

While there are many verses that speak against earning our justification, righteousness, salvation and eternal life as the result of our obedience, there are nevertheless also many verses that support that those things require us to be an obeyer of God, which is not contradictory because there...

I did not admit that and you don't have grounds to accuse me of not accepting what the Bible says at face value when you cannot accept what all of the verses that I quoted that contradict your interpretation say at face value. If you hold to the truth of all of the Bible and there are verses...

Do you affirm or deny that followers of God should walk in His way?

Character traits are not something that are earned as the result of our works, but rather the only way for someone to attain a character trait is by believing that they ought to be a doer of that trait. For example, there is no amount of courageous works that someone is required to have done...

It is contradictory for someone to treat Acts 15:19-21 as containing an exhaustive list for mature Gentile believers in order to limit which laws Gentiles should follow while also treating it as being a non-exhaustive list by saying that that there are obviously other laws that Gentiles should...

The Jerusalem Council was debating whether salvation was by circumcision or by grace, but were not debating whether followers of God should follow His commands in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow. In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message...

The issue of whether followers of God should follow God's commands in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow is not a tribal matter, but rather it is a foundational issue. If you believe that the whole Bible is true, then you should seek to interpret 2 Corinthians 3 in a...

All legislators give laws according to their understanding of morality, so I see nothing wrong with Christians advocating for laws and policies that are in accordance with God's understanding or morality, though there is of course the risk of people misrepresenting His understanding.