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    Works and Salvation

    It is good for you to evaluate whether what you think what a passage says makes sense and to sometimes come to the conclusion that you must have misunderstood it. Does it make sense to interpret it as Paul denying the truth of the many other verses that say that relying on the Law of God is...
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    Sorry, I meant Exodus 31:14-17. My point is that the only way that the Mosaic Covenant can be replaced by the New Covenant is if the New Covenant is inclusive of everything in it. In other words, a newer covenant can't nullify the promises of an older covenant that has already been ratified, so...
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    In Romans 10:5-8, it references 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 and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! Likewise, in...
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    Do you think that Christ the Gospel message to stop repenting because the law has ended now that he has come and to curse us by causing us to be free to do what God’s law has revealed to be wickedness? Or do you think that Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the...
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    In 1 Timothy 1:8, it says that the law is good when it is used properly, so it is important to recognize that the Bible can speak against doing something improperly for the wrong reason without speaking against doing it properly for the right reason. For example, the Bible can speak against...
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    Works and Salvation

    In Exodus 33:13 and Leviticus 24:8, it says that the Mosaic Covenant is eternal. The Bible often uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of God's law, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) or with justice, mercy, and...
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    Works and Salvation

    What specifically do you think was just my assumption? God's graciousness is not superior to His righteousness, but rather God is gracious to us by teaching us to obey His law (Psalms 119:29) and God has made His wisdom known through His word.
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    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 Torah was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the...
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    The Mosaic Covenant was given to teach us how to be a doer of the character traits of God, so if you grant that they are eternal, then you should also grant that the Mosaic Covenant is eternal. If it has ended, then there would no longer be any repercussions for failing to live up to its terms...
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    This came to my attention recently -----is it Faith IN Jesus or Faith OF Jesus

    The way that we choose to live expresses what we believe to be true about who God is, or in other words, the way to believe God is by believing that we ought to be in His image by being a doer of His character traits. For example, being a doer of good works in obedience to God's law testifies...
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    Works and Salvation

    By all means please explain why how it is in accordance with the correct definition for one thing to make another thing obsolete when the things have separate functions and why it is not in accordance with your definition for one thing to make another thing obsolete when it does the same...
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    Those verses say that the Mosaic Covenant is eternal, but you said that they are not, so I don't see how you can deny that you're not denying anything. Do you think that the Mosaic Covenant reveals things about who God is that are eternally true or temporary true? Are the promises in regard to...
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    You can deny the truth of those verses if you want, but I believe them.
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    In Galatians 3:15-18, even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. The Mosaic Covenant does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God so as to make the promise void and neither does the New Covenant. If you think that God breaks His promises...
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    Works and Salvation

    The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8).
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    Sin is what is contrary to God's eternal character, such as with righteousness being in accordance with God's character while unrighteousness is sin and sin is the transgression of God's law because it was given to divide between what is in accordance with or contrary to God's character. For...
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    I did not make up my own definitions. Something is no longer used or out of date because it has been replaced by something else that does the same thing better and if there is not something that does the same thing better, then it has not been made obsolete.
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    Hebrews 8:13 does not contradict Jeremiah 31:33. The Mosaic Covenant is eternal (Exodus 31:14-17, Leviticus 24:8), so the only way that it can be replaced by the New Covenant is if the New Covenant does everything that it does plus more, which is what it means to make something obsolete...
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    In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so those who do not want to obey the Torah also do not want to be under the New Covenant, and the Torah contains 613 mitzvoth.
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    "It" referred back to God's law, which consists of the laws that God has commanded. I've said nothing about needed to to obey God's law with a certain frequency in order to become saved, but rather I said that God graciously teaching his to obey His law is the way that he is giving us His gift...