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Agreed, though the point is that being the hands and feet of Jesus is part of the content of what his gift of salvation is, not the result of it.

I was just basing my view on Titus 2:11-13, which doesn’t say that we are required to have first done those works and then we will be saved as the result or that we need to become saved first and then we will do those works as the result, but rather it describes our salvation and God being...

Our gift of salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of sin while our lives continued to be directed at being doers of sin, so there must be an aspect of our gift of salvation from sin that we are getting to experience in the present by directing our lives...

Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as they are done to earn a wage (Romans 11:6), however, works can be done for reasons that are compatible with grace. For example, a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the...

God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust in God is by obediently trusting in His instructions and it is contradictory for someone to think that we should trust in God instead of trusting in what He has instructed or to think that we...

In Romans 6:19-23, we are no longer to present ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but are now to present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so God's...

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 towards...

2 Corinthians 3:6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts, and in Ezekiel...

The relationship between grace, faith, works, and salvation remains the same regardless which works you think that we should do. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be...

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...

Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being an obeyer God's law is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being an obeyer of it.

The goal of obeying God's law has absolutely nothing to do with trying to do enough works to get saved.

The way to believe in God is by directing our lives towards being in His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, by being a doer of good works in obedience to God's law we are testifying about God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew...

Do you agree that we can do works that express what we believe, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11 or with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through his works? If so, then there are works that we can do that express a belief in what Jesus accomplished through...

While it is true that Abraham believed God, so he was justified (Genesis 15:6, it is also true that he believed God, so he obeyed God's command to offer Isaac (Hebrews 11:17), so the same faith by which he was justified was also expressed by being an obeyer of God, but he did not earn his...

Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as those works as done to earn a wage, however, there can be reasons that works are required other than in order to earn our salvation as the result. For example, a gift can be the experience of doing...

It is clear that we can do works that express our faith, such as with the examples of faith listed in Hebrews 11 or 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. So the significance of our obedience to...

Do you agree that Jesus set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah?

Having the law refers to having physical possession of a Torah scroll in contrast with Jews having the oracles of God (Romans 3:1-2). Jews were in charge of copying, maintaining, and teaching from the Torah scrolls and a Gentile needed to go through Jews in order to gain access to one...

God has not commanded anything that was contrary to the Spirit, but rather everything that He has commanded was commanded in order to teach how to bear fruit of the Spirit. The Spirit is God and the Mosaic Law was given by God, so why does it make sense to you to interpret the Bible as saying...