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The position that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to what God has commanded is not foolishness, but rather it is foundational to Christianity. I consider Pauls's writings to be authoritative and I regularly quote him, which is why I am opposed to you interpreting him...

I quoted verses to show why the law was given, so if you want to claim that I do not understand, then you should explain why you think that I have misunderstood those verses.

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate relationships/knowledge gained by experience, such as with Genesis 4:1 where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by experiencing being in His likeness through embodying His...

You are welcome. I agree that love is what we do. The way to love God is by having the experience of embodying His character traits, such as the way to love justice is by being a doer of justice, the way to love holiness is by being a doer of His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy...

That is not interacting with any of the problems that I raised with using those categories. Jesus set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of God, so he was much more zealous for obedience to it than the Pharisees were and he should not be interpreted as...

According to Psalm 1, blessed are those who delight in the Law of the Lord and who meditate on it day and night. Do you agree or disagree that this is the correct attitude towards obeying the Law of God that we should share?

In Isaiah 64:6, it is not speaking about how God views our best works, but rather it is the people hyperbolically complaining about God not coming down and making His presence known. The reality is that God is not a commander of filthy rags but that the righteous deeds of the saints are like...

I take the middle position that we are not required to obey the Law of God in order to become saved as the result and we are not required to obey it as the result of having first been saved, but rather we are intrinsically required to be a doer of it before God graciously teaching us to...

There is a difference between the Bible listing which laws are part of those categories and you deciding to group laws in a way that makes sense to you. If a group of people were to create lists of which laws they thought were part of the ceremonial, civil, or moral law, then they would end up...

While I agree that there is a distinction between the Ten Commandments snd the other laws there is nothing in the Bible that suggests that distinction is between which laws are immoral to disobey. All of God's laws have the same moral authority regardless of whether He wrote them or spoke them...

In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing from it, so the Law of Moses is God's Word. In Psalm 19:7, the Law of Moses is perfect, in Psalm 119:45, it is of liberty, and in Psalm 119:1-3, it blesses those who obey it, so when James 1:25 speaks...

Jesus is God's Word made flesh, so saying that he is the law of the NC is not different than saying that God's Word is the law of the NC. Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4), so there are not good grounds for thinking...

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of the Law of God (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it, and Jesus can't save us from...

The Bible never listed which laws are part of the moral law and never even refers to that as being a subcategory of law. The existence of the moral law would imply that that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that aren't in that subcategory, however, there are no examples in the...

We can't earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God because it was never given as a way of earning our righteousness in the first place, but rather it was given to describe the life of a righteous person as it describes the life of Christ, so it is...

God did not give His law in order to teach us how to trust in our own works, our own righteousness, and our own understanding, but rather He gave in in order to teach us how to trust in His works, His righteousness, and His understanding. You can't claim credit for the works that God has...

While there are ways that the New Covenant is not like the Mosaic Covenant, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so the difference is not in regard to following it. The Mosaic Law has always intended to be on our hearts...

Then do you take the position that someone is not courageous unless they have been perfectly courageous throughout their entire life? Or if someone has done one courageous thing in their life, then they can't be considered to be a coward? Is there anyone that you think is courageous? Even if...

We can’t earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God (Romans 4:1-5), so the reason why we can’t earn our righteousness is not because we fall short but because the Law of God was never given as a way of earning our righteousness in the first place. In...

Everything in the Law of Moses is either in regard to how to love God or our neighbor, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-40 that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so the position that we should obey the greatest two commandments...