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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...

Our gift of salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of sin while our lives continued to be directed at being doers of sin, so there must be an aspect of our gift of salvation from sin that we are getting to experience in the present by directing our lives...

Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as they are done to earn a wage (Romans 11:6), however, works can be done for reasons that are compatible with grace. For example, a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the...

God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust in God is by obediently trusting in His instructions and it is contradictory for someone to think that we should trust in God instead of trusting in what He has instructed or to think that we...

In Romans 6:19-23, we are no longer to present ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but are now to present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so God's...

A gift can be the experience of doing something, such as 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 towards...

2 Corinthians 3:6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts, and in Ezekiel...

The relationship between grace, faith, works, and salvation remains the same regardless which works you think that we should do. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be...

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 we are not required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result and we are not required to do those works as...

Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being an obeyer God's law is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being an obeyer of it.

The goal of obeying God's law has absolutely nothing to do with trying to do enough works to get saved.