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God’s way is the narrow way that leads to life and God has graciously taught how to walk in His way through His law, but many people don’t want to walk in it (Jeremiah 6:16-19). The people in the Bible wanted God to be gracious to them by teaching them to obey His law, but many people today...

The issue of whether followers of God should follow what He has commanded in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow is independent of the issue of what I happened to be doing. I do keep the Law of Moses, but even if I were actively trying to commit as much sin a as...

If someone says that they believe something, but they choose to act in a way that is not in accordance with what they say that they believe, then that shows that their words were empty. If someone said that they believed in vegetarianism, but they chose to eat meat at every meal, then would you...

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...

In 1 John 2:4, those who say that they know Jesus, but don't obey his commands are liars and the truth is not in them, in 1 John 3:4-6, those who continue to be doers of sin have neither seen nor known him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness...

We can do works that express our faith, such as 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 and it is by that faith alone that we are being saved.

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...

Then by all means please explain it. In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, so verses that refer to those who are in Christ like that passage from Ephesians are only referring to those who are following Christ's example of walking in obedience to...

The Bible frequently connects our faith in God with our obedience to Him, such as in Revelation 14:12, those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God’s commandments, so what I’ve said in favor of obedience to God’s commandments in in complete accordance with having faith in...

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 to detract...

Indeed, in Ephesians 2:8-10, we are made new creations in Christ to do good works, so while Paul denied that we can earn our salvation as the result of our works lest anyone should boast, being made to be a doer of good works in obedience to God’s law is nevertheless a central part of God’s gift...

That's what Jeremiah 31:33 states. The Psalms express an extremely positive view of the Mosaic Law, such as with David repeatedly saying that he loved it and delighted in obeying it, so if we consider the Psalms to be Scripture and to therefore express a correct view of obeying it, then we will...

In Romans 7:22-23, Paul said that he delighted in obey the Law of God, but contrasted it with the law of sin that held him captive. It would be absurd to interpret Romans 7:5 as referring to the Law of God as if Paul delighted in stirring up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death...

Jesus did not establish the New Covenant in order to undermine anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that we could be free to have the same lawlessness that caused the New Covenant to be needed in the first place, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law...

Indeed, obeying God’s word is the way to obey God’s word made flesh. In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so...

The Torah is God’s way (1 Kings 2:1-3), the truth (Psalms 119:142), and the life (Deuteronomy 32:46-47), and the way to know the Father (Exodus 33:13), and Jesus embodied the way, the truth, and the life, and the way to know the Father through his works by setting a sinless example for us to...

I did not castigate you into the novices corner, but rather I spoke in regard to how I think that those passages should be understood and I made the case that Deuteronomy 13 does not leave room for us to consider Paul to be a servant of God while also thinking that he should be interpreted in a...

The way to believe in God is by directing our lives at being in His likeness by being a doer of His character traits in obedience to His law, and it is by this faith that we become a child of God. For example, by being a doing of good works in obedience to God's law we are testifying about His...

It prophesies a prophet like Moses, not about a prophet who would teach his own set of laws. The same God to gave the law to Moses also sent Jesus in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness in disobedience to it (Acts 3:25-26), so there is no disagreement...