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Paul drew a distinction between eating meat that had been previously offered to idols and participating in the ceremony by eating meat that from the altar: 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. The cup...

The Hebrew “yada” refers to an intimate relationship or knowledge based on experience, such as in Genesis 4:1, Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that He and Israel might know...

In Hebrews 11, it lists examples of people who had saving faith even though they had never read the NT, so that is ultimately unnecessary for salvation. Paul was a servant of God, so Galatians should not be interpreted in a way that turns it against obeying what God has commanded.

Jesus quoted three times from Deuteronomy in order to defeat the temptations of Satan, including saying that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord, so he affirmed its authority and everything that has come from the mouth of the Lord, which...

The topic that they were discussing was whether salvation is earned as the result of circumcision (Acts 15:1) or whether salvation is by grace (Acts 15:1). 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...

Someone having a circumcised heart only refers to them being someone who walks in obedience to the Law of Moses (Deuteronomy 10:12-16, Deuteronomy 30:6, Romans 2:25-29) while someone having an uncircumcised heart only refers to them being someone who doesn’t walk in obedience to the Law of Moses...

Paul used an example of Gentiles shows that they have a circumcised heart by keeping God’s law, which was putting to shame those who were physically circumcised, but who were not keeping God’s law, so he was not speaking about perfect obedience. God never commanded circumcision for the purpose...

It is important to recognize that the Bible can speak against doing something for incorrect reasons without speaking against doing it for the reasons for which God commanded it. For example, in Exodus 12:48, a Gentile who wanted to eat of the Passover lamb was required to become circumcised, so...

The Hebrew word "yada" refers to an intimate relationship/knowledge gained through experience, such as in Genesis 4:1, Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave brith to Cain. The Bible begins and ends with the Tree of Life in the Garden and everything in between is about how to walk in...

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that he will tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so our obedience is not required in order to earn our...

The Spirit has the role of leading us in truth (John 16:13), the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey the Mosaic Law (Ezekiel 36:26-27), and the Mosaic Law is truth (Psalms 119:142). In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us from the Mosaic Law, but in order to free...

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 His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation...

Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin, but not from continuing to live in sin, so there must be an aspect of our salvation from sin that we are experiencing in the present by being a doer of God’s law. God did not give His law as...

The NT speaks against sin, sin is the the transgression of God's law, and God's law commands to keep the Sabbath holy. Jesus taught to keep the Sabbath holy both through his interactions with the Pharisees on the topic and by example. In 1 Peter 1:16, we are instructed to be holy for God is...

It is completely straightforward that Jesus saves us from not obeying God's law by graciously teaching us to obey it. What is ridiculous about that? 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...

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3-4), so while obeying God's law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation as the result, Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift...

Jesus was circumcised on the 8th day as a member of the Mosaic Covenant (Luke 2:21) and he was born under the law (Galatians 4:4), so he was obligated to obey the Mosaic Law, and he was sinless, which means that he never broke it, which includes Deuteronomy 4:2. If Jesus was free to change...

In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the law, so Jesus did not reform it, rather he set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to it, and he did not hypocritically preach something other than what he practiced. In John 15:10, Jesus used a parallel...

I showed that the Gospel that Jesus taught that called for our obedience to God's law was the same as the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham, so the OT and NT Gospels as the same. About 1/3 of the verses in the NT contain quotes or allusions to the OT, which the NT authors did...

I grew up as a Baptist being taught to have a negative view of obeying the Law of God. The Psalms express an extremely positive view of obeying the Law of God, such as with David repeatedly saying that he loved it and delighted in obeying it, so one day I realized that if I was going to...