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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 are testifying about God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew...

Do you agree that we can do works that express what we believe, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11 or with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through his works? If so, then there are works that we can do that express a belief in what Jesus accomplished through...

While it is true that Abraham believed God, so he was justified (Genesis 15:6, it is also true that he believed God, so he obeyed God's command to offer Isaac (Hebrews 11:17), so the same faith by which he was justified was also expressed by being an obeyer of God, but he did not earn his...

Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as those works as done to earn a wage, however, there can be reasons that works are required other than in order to earn our salvation as the result. For example, a gift can be the experience of doing...

It is clear that we can do works that express our faith, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11 or with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith by his works, so everyone who is a doer of the same works as James has faith in Jesus. So the significance of our obedience to...

Do you agree that Jesus set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah?

Having the law refers to having physical possession of a Torah scroll in contrast with Jews having the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-2). Jews were in charge of copying, maintaining, and teaching from the Torah scrolls and a Gentile needed to go through Jews in order to gain access to one...

God has not commanded anything that was contrary to the Spirit, but rather everything that He has commanded was commanded in order to teach how to bear fruit of the Spirit. The Spirit is God and the Mosaic Law was given by God, so why does it make sense to you to interpret the Bible as saying...

Do you think that what Jesus claiming in John 14 should be understood in accordance with the context of what the OT says on those matters and that it should inform our understanding of what he was claiming or do you think that he should be interpreted as expressing disagreement with what God...

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His children to repent and to return to obedience to His law and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message (Matthew 4:15-23), so it is absurd to interpret Galatians as Paul being opposed to repenting and believing the Gospel of Christ. Yes, I...

I'll leave this question open to everyone: Should followers of the God of Israel walk in His way in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow?

God is sovereign, so we are all under His law and are obligated to refrain from sin. If Gentiles weren't not under it, then Gentiles would have no need to repent from sin, no need of salvation, no need of grace, no need of the Gospel message, and no need of Jesus to have given himself to redeem...

That is true for the law of sin, but not the Law of God. 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...

“Good” is the ultimate goal at which all things aim. For example, a square is a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles and a plane figure is a good square to the degree that it is aimed at being in the likeness of a square. A square drawn freehand is not as good of a...

His post was in opposition to truth.

We are giving glory to God whenever we are doers of His character traits.

At this point you are just committing slander.

It is just an identity marker like the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, though God did identity Himself as the God of Israel: Isaiah 45:3 “I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by...

We are free to create however many categories of law that want and to decide for ourselves which laws best fit into which of our categories, but we should not interpret the authors of the Bible as though they had in mind a set of laws that we created without establishing that they had in mind an...

Israel was given the role if being a light and a blessing to the nations by turning the nations from their wickedness and by teaching them to walk in God’s way in obedience to His law in accordance with the promise and with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is also the way that Gentiles...