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While Paul denied in Romans 4:1-5 that we can earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God, he also affirmed in Romans 2:13 that only the doers it will be declared righteous (Romans 2:13), so there is a reason why our righteousness requires us to choose...

We can do works for a variety of reasons, such as in order to earn a wage, in order to embody our faith, in order to embody our love, in order to look good in the eyes of others, in order to build a relationship, in order to restore the world, and so forth. So we can do works for one specific...

While I agree that on one alive can be void of any kind of works, the position of by faith through grace apart from works is not referring to any kind of works, but rather it is referring to a specific kind of works that everyone can be alive apart from. That is a straw man. Again, that is...

Indeed. The content of a gift can be the experience of getting to do 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 in order to experience driving it, but where doing that work contributes...

To say that someone is alone is not to say that they exist in a void that is apart from everything else in the universe, but rather there is something specific that they are apart from. Likewise, when Paul said that we are declared righteous by works, then he was not referring to any kind of...

To have a character trait means to be a doer of works that embody that trait, so for example to say that someone is courageous means that they are a doer of courageous works and it would be contradictory for someone to become courageous apart from becoming a doer of courageous works. I could...

I agree. God's character traits are the fruits of the Spirit and the Law of God was given to describe the behavior of someone who has God's character traits as it describers the behavior of the Son, is the the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which...

The issue of the way to become a righteous person is different from the issue of what describes the behavior of a righteous person. The only way to become a righteous person is through faith apart from being required to have first done enough righteous works in order to earn it as the result...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus 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 the Law of Moses 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...

Someone can be alone apart from the company of other humans while not being alone apart from the company of their pets, so someone can be alone and not alone at the same time in different senses. We can do works for a variety of reason, such as in order to earn a wage, in order to embody our...

Jesus and the Apostles quoted from the OT hundreds of times in order to support what they were saying, so it doesn't work for someone to take the position that we should follow what they said but not what they considered to be an authoritative source. For example, Jesus quoted three times from...

In James 2, it does not say anything along the lines that if we break any law, the we won’t be saved or enter the Kingdom of God, but rather he was speaking to people who were picking and choosing which laws to follow and making the point that breaking any law is a sin from which we need to...

Repeating your same misunderstanding of the Bible instead of engaging with what I've said does not counter my position. The Mosaic Law is truth (Psalm 119:152), so I'm not the one who is rejecting God's clear truth.

I see that you are unable to counter what I’ve said.

Paul said that being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin (Romans 6:15) and that it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20). Was your post referring to me?

For some unknown reason you like to speak about legalist immediately after I post in a way that is clearly intended to indirectly refer to me inaccurately.

Feel free to interact with what I've said rather than assigning to me quotes that are unrelated to anything that I've said. If God is a legalist for graciously giving us His law and Jesus is a legalist for spending his ministry graciously teaching us to obey it, then we should all be legalists...

Jesus did not say anything to the effect that it was not good enough. Obedience to the Law of Moses has nothing to do with trying to be good enough. God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, but rather the Law of Moses is God's instructions for how to...

In Deuteronomy 30, it forms the basis of the New Covenant by prophesying about a time when the Israelites would return from exile, God would circumcise their hearts, they they would return to obedience to the Law of Moses, which is what Ezekiel 36:26-27 and Jeremiah 31:33 and in regard to. In...

Loving or neighbor is not something that we do once and completed our obligation to command and no longer need to love our neighbor, but rather it is something that we need to keep in fulfilling in accordance with the example that Jesus set for us to follow. The law of sin leads of to be a...