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In Romans 3:21-22, it does not say that the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteousness of God comes as the result of perfect obedience, but rather the only way to become righteous that is testified about in the Law and the Prophets is through faith in Christ for all who believe. Even...

I do not agree that the New Covenant is the Mosaic Covenant. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of Moses. It is...

The fact that God's character traits are eternal means that everything that God's commands to us about how to embody His character traits is eternal, so that is not an assumption. Scripture never lists which laws are moral laws and never even refers to the category of moral law. Conceivably...

In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Torah is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse...

Likewise, in Joshua 8:33, Israel was inclusive of both the foreigner and the native born.

All of God's commands have the same moral authority regardless of whether He wrote them or spoke them and regardless of the medium upon which they are written or where they are placed. Do you deny that the greatest two commandments are part of the Mosaic Covenant? The Hebrew concept of "until"...

Sin was in the world before the law was given (Romans 5:13), which is because people could do what is contrary to God's character traits before they had been given instructions to refrain from doing that. Moreover, the fact that sin was in the world before the law was given means that there...

Thank you. While Israel went through redemption cycles of turning away and back towards God, it is culminating in final redemption. The New Covenant is based on better promises and one of those promises is that Israel would never cease to be a nation before God (Jeremiah 31:35-37), so there...

1 Peter 1:13-25 Therefore, preparing your minds for action,[b] and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you...

There is a reality of what is true about who God is that was true before God made any covenants with man, that has been revealed through God's covenants, and that is true regardless of which covenant someone is under, if any. God's character traits are eternal, so the way to know Him through...

"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Jesus was required to be without blemish in order to accomplished what he did in Titus 2:14.

Forgiveness has always been through faith in Christ. The New Covenant is only made with the house of Judah and the house of Israel (Jeremiah 31:31), so it is only through becoming joined to Israel through faith in Christ that Gentiles are able to partake of the New Covenant. In Ephesians...

Agreed. There are many examples in the Bible of people having forgiveness based on repentance, such as with 1 Kings 8:46-50. It is important to recognize that Paul can speak against being required to do works for incorrect reasons without speaking against being required to do them for the...

Indeed, sorry for not being clear. If someone disagrees with what I said based on a verse without disagreeing with the verse, then they should explain why they think that I have misunderstood it.

That particular law is the one that is most strongly connected with the command to be holy as He is holy by coming immediately before and after it. It is also a command that many people argue those under the New Covenant are not required to obey in spite of 1 Peter 1:16 instruct to be holy as...

The New Covenant not being like the Mosaic Covenant does not mean that they have nothing in common, but rather it just means that they are the stated differences. For example, the greatest two commandments are part of both covenants and the reason why the commandments to love God and our...

How can someone take the position that God wants His children to be holy as He is holy while also taking the position that God does not want us to follow Christ's example of waking in obedience to His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy? For example: Leviticus 11:44-45 For I am the...

Please explain how what I said based on Titus 2:11-13 is heresy while Titus 2:11-13 is not. There is a difference between these two positions. 1.) Our salvation requires us to obey the Law of God. 2.) Our salvation requires us to obey the Law of God in order to earn it as the result. There...

The way to love God is by embodying His character traits, such as the way to love justice is by being a doer of justice, the way to love holiness is by being a doer of God's instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so forth. In other words, the goal of everything that God has...