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"Torah" means "instruction", though it can also be translated as "law" when it refers to instructions that we are obligated to follow. The Bible uses "Torah" to refer to the Law of Moses, so I am not misrepresenting it. In Deuteronomy 30, it forms the basis for the New Covenant by prophesying...

Please explain how it teaches the opposite of what I said. While we can't become saved as the result of our obedience to the Torah, being a doer of the Torah is intrinsically part of the concept of being saved from not being a doer of it and it is contradictory for someone to want salvation...

In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the...

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 nothing...

In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us from the Law of God but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in the freedom that we have in Christ is by...

The Gospel requires us to obey the Torah (Matthew 4:15-23), so teaching that it not a requirement is what servers the Gospel. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so Jesus graciously teaching us to be a doer of...

We can't earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God, so that was never the reason for why we are required to obey it. 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 having...

The Law of God came with instructions for what to do when His children sinned, so it did not require perfect obedience. If we needed to have perfect obedience, then repentance would have no value, but the fact that repentance has value demonstrates that we are not required to have perfect...

No. The New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31;33), so while it is not like the Mosaic Covenant, the way that it is not like it is not in regard to following the Torah. The Bible repeatedly calls for God's children to walk in...

Christ said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3) and Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing from it (Deuteronomy 5:31-33), so I see no justification for thinking that the Law of...

The fact that the Ten Commandments were placed in the Ark of the Covenant does not mean that they are the only commands that we should follow. In Jeremiah 31:33, it does not specify that it is only speaking about just ten of God's commandments, but rather it uses the Hebrew word "Torah". The...

It is absurd to think that God's Word made flesh has rendered God's Word unnecessary. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what Jesus...

The purpose of the Torah is to teach us how to embody God's character traits and God's character traits are the fruits of the Spirit, which is why the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey it (Ezekiel 36:26-27) and why Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds...

The New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing on our hearts (Jeremiah 31;33). The Torah foreshadows Christ because he is the embodiment of it and by following his example of embodying it we are testifying about who he is. Those who are in Christ are obligated to walk...

Morality is in regard to what ought to be done and all legislators give laws in accordance with their understanding of what ought to be done, so intrinsic moral laws are those that are in accordance with objective morality while positive commands based on authority are not in accordance with...

Morality is in regard to what we ought to do and we ought to embody God's character traits, so all of the OT laws are inherently moral laws. The NT does not describes obedience to the OT in that manner, but rather it describe the OT laws as being God's instructions for how to have an intimate...

Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3) and Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing from it (Deuteronomy 5:31-33), which means that Jesus taught to follow the 613 laws of...

In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to free us from the Law of Moses but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in the freedom that we have in Christ is by...

While it is possible for someone to interpret Acts 15:19-21 as ruling that Gentile followers of Christ are not required to follow over 99% of what Christ taught to follow, I don't think that it makes much sense to do that. Either Acts 15:19-21 contains an exhaustive list for mature believers or...

The fact that there are laws that we can't currently obey does not mean that we should not delight in getting to obey the laws that we can obey.