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Christ said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so it is contradictory to follow Christ instead of the Law of God or to follow God's Word made flesh instead of God's Word. In Matthew 4, Jesus preceded a quote from what is written by saying...

In Matthew 1:21, Jesus saves us from our sin, and in 1 John 3:4, sin is the transgression of the Law of God, so Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being doers of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being doers of it. So the Law of God does not...

Agreed, and why not obey the Law of Moses simply because we love God?

The Torah is how we know what sin is, so how can Jesus calling sinners to repentance not be speaking about obeying the Torah ? In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be graciously to hi by teaching him to obey the Torah, and he chose the way of faith by setting...

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...

Jesus criticized Pharisees precisely because they weren't following the Torah as perfectly as possible. For example, in Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that tithing dill, mint, and cumin was something that they ought to be doing while not neglecting weightier matters of the Torah of justice, mercy...

I did say that it refers to an intimate relationship, but agree that intimately understanding them on the deepest level is a fuller way to put it. The Bible often refers to the Mosaic Covenant in terms of being a marriage between God and Israel, such as with God being her husband (Jeremiah...

Hello, it is nice to meet you. :) 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 while we can't earn our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Torah, there is nevertheless an intrinsic...

There is nothing about mentioning the 613 laws that means that Christ died in vain. 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 he accomplished...

God repeatedly called for His children to repent from our disobedience to the Law of Moses throughout the Bible and even Jesus began his ministry with that Gospel message (Matthew 4:15-23), but it never once calls for us to repent from our obedience to it.

The New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so those who want nothing to do with God's gift of the Torah also want nothing to do with coming under the New Covenant. No one has ever been required to obey all 613. For example...

Please quote where I have said anything personally antagonistic to you or anyone else. People who are quarreling are having voices raised and tempers flaring and are turning it into a shouting match with personal attacks. I agree that quarreling about any topic should be avoided, but I see no...

I agree that some laws can't currently be followed, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't follow the laws that we can currently follow. "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...

The problem that Paul had with the Judaizers were wanting to require Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved and I completely agree with Paul's opposition to them. The concept of having the Holy Spirit instead of obeying the Torah is foreign to the Bible. Which verse NT...

Jesus said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4), so he reaffirmed everything that God spoke, not just a few things that He spoke. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of sin...

The Torah foreshadows Christ by testifying about him and we should live in a way that testifies about him by following his example of embodying it rather than a way that bears false witness against him. For example, the way to believe that Jesus is holy is by testifying about his holiness...

I did not say anything about the Torah's love just being for Jews. Loving our enemies is in accordance with verses like Exodus 23:4-5, Deuteronomy 23:7, Proverbs 24:17-18, and Proverbs 25:21-22. God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, but rather...

It is absurd to think that we can commit idolatry by taking the position that we should obey the command in the Law of Moses to refrain from committing idolatry. In 1 John 3:10, those do are not doers of righteous works in obedience to the Torah are not born again regardless of whether or not...

In Matthew 5:43-48, Jesus was speaking about having a love that is full, mature, or complete where we don't just love those who love us but also love our enemies, not about having sinless obedience. There would be no point in telling people who have already sinned that they need to have sinless...

All of the 613 laws of the Torah are either in regard to how to love God or how to love our neighbor, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-40 that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so the position that we should obey the greatest two...