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The existence of the subcategory of moral law would imply that we can be acting morally while disobeying the laws that are not in that category, however, there are no examples in the Bible where disobedience to any of God's laws is referred to as being moral and I see no justification for...

The Bible does use categories such as the mishpatim, chukkim, and edot, but I agree that they do not correspond to the categories of ceremonial, civil, and moral law, and that they are not categorized based on whether or not we have to keep them. We do have the freedom to create whatever...

In James 2:1-11, he was calling them to repent from showing favoritism, not giving them the option to either live in obedience to all of the Law of God or to live in compete disobedience to it.

Sin is what is contrary to God's character traits such as with unrighteousness being sin, and sin is the transgression of the Law of God because it was given in to teach us how to embody God's character traits. God's character traits are the fruits of the Spirit, which is why the Spirit has the...

For example, love is one of the fruits of the Spirit and everything in the Law of God is either in regard to how to love God or our neighbor, so the Spirit leads us to love is not doing something other than leading us to obey the Law of God. The Law of God does not cause us to love, but rather...

God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalm 19:7) so the way to trust in God is by obediently trusting in His instructions and it would be contradictory for someone to think that we should trust in God for salvation instead of in His instructions. Jesus set a sinless...

To use an analogy, if two people came to a bridge that they were told that it was safe to cross and the first one chooses to stand there mentally affirming that it is safe while the second one chooses to cross the bridge, then the second one would be experiencing what it means to believe that...

Indeed, followers of Christ should follow his example of embodying the character traits of God in obedience to His law, which involves doing works.

In Romans 2:25-29, the way to recognize that a Gentile has a circumcised heart is by observing their obedience to the Law of Moses, which is the same way to tell for a Jew (Deuteronomy 10:12-16), so someone having a circumcised heart only refers to them being a doer of the Law of Moses while...

I believe that all of the Bible is true, that no part of it should be interpreted as contradicting other parts, and that the New Covenant still involves following the Law of God (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). Jesus and the Apostles quoted from the OT hundreds of times in order to support...

I based everything that I said on Scripture, so your accusation of it not being Scriptural has no foundation. If you think that I twisted Scripture, then by all means please make the case for it, but there is no point in you accusing me of something without giving any sort of justification for...

In Romans 3:27, Paul contrasted a law of works with a law of faith, in Galatians 3:10-12, he contrasted the Book of the Law with "works of the law", and in Romans 3:31, he said that our faith upholds the Law of God in contrast with Galatians 3:10-12 where he said that "works of the law" are not...

In Romans 7-8:2 Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, and that he served it with his mind in contrast with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do the good that he wanted to do, which was waging war against the law of his mind...

God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, but rather the Law of God is His instructions for how to embody His character traits and His character traits are the fruits of the Spirit, which is why the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey it (Ezekiel...

How do you define "legalistic"? God is sovereign, so we are obligated to obey what He has commanded regardless of whether or not we love Him and want a relationship with Him, but we should also obey because we do love Him and want a relationship with Him.

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example and we can't have obedience to him instead of having obedience to what he taught. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own...

I haven't said anything about being legalist, but rather it speaks about duty. It is our duty to follow Christ regardless of how naturally it comes to us. God has given instructions for how to have an intimate relationship with Him, not a checklist of rules.

In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked, so while I agree that would should obey out of love and connection with the Father, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't also obey out of duty. The reason why God gave His law was not in order to teach...

In John 15:1-10, the way to abide in Christ is by following his commandments, so it is incorrect to think that his commandments are the works that are going to get burned up or that by following them we are doing self efforts that are apart from Christ. 1 John 2:6, those who abide in Christ are...

The content of a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it it or to experience getting to drive it, but where doing that work contributes nothing...