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The Torah contains 613 laws that all teach us how to embody God's character traits. The New Covenant is made with the same God with the same character traits and therefore the same eternal and cumulatively valid instructions for how to embody His character traits. There are times when we...

If someone interrupted fulfilling the Torah as abolishing our obligation to obey it, then are interpreting that as meaning the same thing as abolishing it in spite of Jesus saying that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and in spite of him warning...

Sins is the transgression of the Torah (1 John 3:4), so you can have it both ways. Dying to sin is the opposite of dying to the Torah. Dying to sin is being set free to live in obedience to the Torah while dying to the Torah is being set free to become doers of what it reveals to be sin. In...

The Mosaic Covenant contained more than just the Ten Commandments and the Bible does not use the word "Torah" to specifically refer to just the Ten Commandment. If our goal is to embody God's character traits, then we will consider any instructions that God has given for how to do that to be...

No. Agreed. Transgressing any other command in the Torah is also counter to loving God with al our heart, mind, soul, and strength, which is why that is the greatest commandment. Some of God's laws appear to conflict with each other, such as when God commanded to rest on the Sabbath while...

Those verses leave room for two scenarios: 1.) The Colossians were not celebrating God's feasts, they were being judged by Jews because they were not, and Paul was encouraging them not to let anyone judge them for not celebrating them. 2.) The Colossians were celebrating God's feastps, they...

You claimed that Jesus only had two laws for us to keep, which would mean that someone who committed idolatry would not be breaking the 2nd Commandment because that is not one of the two laws that Jesus had for us to keep. On the other hand, all of the Torah being written on our hearts would...

Part 2/2 Someone no longer being under a tutor does not mean that they should then disregard everything that their tutor taught them. In Galatians 3:26-29, every aspect of being children of God, through faith, in Christ, and children of Abraham and heirs of the promise is directly connected...

Part 1/2 Do you think that what the Torah teaches about God is temporarily true or eternal true? The only way that the Torah can be temporary is if the God who has the character traits that the Torah was given in order to teach us how to embody is also temporary. It would be contradictory for...

"To fulfill the law" means "to cause God's will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo), so Jesus proceeded to fulfill the Torah throughout the rest of Matthew 5 by correcting what the people had heard being said and by teaching how to correctly obey...

Indeed, that verse uses the Hebrew word "mitzvot" and there are 613 "mitzvot" in the Law of Moses. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has the character traits that the Law of Moses was given in order to teach us how to embody, such as how to be holy as He is holy, which is why Deuteronomy 13...

There is nothing sinful about not following laws that we legitimately can't keep and that should not prevent us from getting to experience obedience to the laws that we can legitimately keep. For example, in Deuteronomy 17:18, it specifically instructs the king to write a copy of the Torah, so...

The Hebrew word "tzaraat" does not have an English equivalent and it certainly does not refer to any contagious disease or to leprosy. "Leprosy" is used because they needed an English word to fill the gap, so it is perhaps the closest word in English, but it is nevertheless a different concept...

No, it's not. The flu is not even mentioned in the Bible. In Ephesians 2:12-19, Gentiles were at one time separated from Christ, alienated from Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in this world, which is in accordance with Gentiles at one time not...

In Proverbs 3:1, it uses the Hebrew word "Torah", so it is certainly referring to obeying the Torah as the way to trust in God in all of our ways it was certainly given in accordance with God's wisdom. Likewise, in Revelation 22:14, those who kept God's commandments are given the right to eat...

In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was not asked about which were the only laws that he has for us to keep but about which commandment was the greatest. All of the 613 laws are either in regard to how to love God or how to love our neighbor, which is why Jesus said that those are the greatest...

All of God's commandments have the same moral authority regardless of whether God wrote them or spoke them, regardless of the medium upon which they are written, and regardless of where they are placed. Jesus notably did not say that man shall not live by bread alone but by just the words of...

There are a number of ways where Eve's desires influenced her perception (Genesis 3:6) and our desires cloud our judgements so that if we lean only on our own understanding of good and evil, then we can't be sure if something is truly good of if we just think that it is good because we desire...

Christ said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so the Law of Christ is in complete accordance with everything that God spoke to Moses. Likewise, Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by...

That is a typo, I meant to say Christ, thanks.