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Rather, the Bible repeatedly states that obeying God's law leads to life while it is refusing to submit to it that leads to death. For example, in Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to proclaiming that God's law is not too difficult...

A guardian is a protector, not a harsh and severe task master. For example, a child needs a guardian to help them cross a busy street until they can be trusted to safely cross it on their own, but it would be incorrect for the child to think that no longer needing to be under a guardian means...

I gave examples of how that is true, such as with a wise God being a giver of wise laws. Please explain why it is not contradictory to think that the law is a harsh and severe task masker while also thinking that the Lawgiver is not.

The view that you have of the law matches the view that you have of the Lawgiver for giving it. For example, wise laws come from a wise God and unrighteous laws don't come from a righteous God. The Psalms express an extremely positive view of obeying God's law, such as with David repeatedly...

Jesus set a sinless example for us to learn from of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, and in Matthew 11:28-30, he was inviting people to come to him for rest and to learn from him, not inviting people to come to him for rest instead of learning from him. Moreover, by Jesus saying that...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ 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 God's law 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...

Nowhere does the Bible say that Jesus became the law for us or that we need to follow it perfectly. God's law came with instructions for what to do when His children sinned, so it never required us to have perfect obedience. Repentance doesn't change the fact that we have not had perfect...

Paul spoke about multiple categories of law other than the Law of God, such as the law of sin or works of the law, so we should be careful to discern which law he was referring to. For example, in Romans 7:21-8:2, Paul said that he delighted in obeying the Law of God and served it with his...

Jesus taught how to walk in obedience to Torah by setting a sinless example for us to follow and in Matthew 11:28-30, he was inviting people to come to him for rest and to learn from him, not inviting people to come to him for rest instead of learning from him. Moreover, by Jesus saying that we...

I didn't say that it was. In Psalms 119:142, the Torah is truth, and in John 8:31-16, it is the transgression of the Torah that puts us into bondage while the truth sets us free.

The yoke of Christ is the yoke of the Kingdom, which is obeying the Torah that he spent his ministry teaching by word and by example, and which he was inviting people to learn from him in Matthew 11:28-30. Moreover, by Jesus saying that they would find rest for our souls, he was referencing...

God's way is the way to know Him and Jesus by being in His likeness through being a doer of His character traits, such as in Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teach his children and those of his household to walk in God's way by being a doer of righteousness and justice that the Lord...

Even the concept of false gods was created by God so that we would have a choice.

If you break any law and become a lawbreaker, then you need to repent and return to obedience, which is precisely what James was encouraging them to do. His point has nothing to do with saying that the law only proves our guilty, not how to live, so you are taking that verse out of context.

The fact that I have not kept God's law perfectly does not mean that I have never kept it. The reason why we should obey God's law had nothing to do with trying to pay the penalty for our sin on our own. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for...

When I have not kept it, then I have repented.

I don't claim to have perfect obedience to God's law, but to fulfill the law you just need to correctly do what it instructs. When a husband is fulfilling his marriage vows he is correctly acting in accordance with what he has vowed. God's law was never given as a means of saving ourselves...

Where did you get that definition and why are you rejecting the definition from the NAS Greek Lexicon? According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has ever loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so again it refers to correctly obeying it as it should be. Moreover, it refers to...

“To fulfill the law” means “to cause God’s will (as made known by the law) to be obeyed as it should be” (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo). That doesn’t follow, but rather the opposite is true. The Gospel is based on the premise that we can keep God’s law because there would be no point in calling...

n James 2:1-11, he was speaking to people who had sinned by committing favoritism, so he was not telling them that he needed to have perfect obedience because that would have already been too late and he was not discouraging them from trying to keep God's law, but rather he was encouraging them...