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I do not always refer to the 613 laws and there are many instances where I have not, but I said that because I was answering a question that you specifically asked me about the 613 laws. Sin is what is contrary to God's character traits and sin is the transgression of any of the 613 laws...

The reason why the commandments to love God and our neighbor are the greatest two commandments is because they are inclusive of all of the other commandments, which is why Jesus said that all of the other commandments hang on them. If someone thought that they just needed to love God and their...

The Bible repeatedly refers to the Torah as being God's way, such as with Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Isaiah 2:2-3, Joshua 22:5, 1 Kings 2:1-3, Psalm 119:1-3, an many others.

Some people are trying to say that only some of God's laws are moral, so I refer to 613 of them to emphasize that all of them are moral. 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, the 613...

All of the 613 laws of the Torah manifest God's loving nature. The command to love our neighbor can be found in Leviticus 19:18, so there is nothing brand new about that command, but what is new about it is the example by which we are to love our neighbor. Indeed, the Greek word use refers to...

You've misunderstand me, I did not claim that a single person is required to obey all 613 laws. Some laws were only given to govern the conduct of the king, the High Priest, priests, men, women, children, those who are married, those who are widows, those who have servants, those who have...

Morality is base on God's character traits and the Torah was given in order to teach us how to embody God's character traits, so all of the 613 laws are inherently moral laws. In Psalm 19:29-30, he waned to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the...

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 by word and by example, then we should all be legalists, but that is not what I think that it means. The Bible teaches that the way to know God is by obeying...

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example and what is sadly not surprising is how strongly Christians are opposed to following what Christ taught. The way to live for God is not by dying to His instructions for how to live for Him but by dying to...

There is not a single person who was required to follow all 613 and not even Jesus experienced obeying the laws in regard to giving birth or to having a period. In Deuteronomy 17:18, it specifically instructs the king to write a copy of the Torah, so everyone who is not the king has a...

Love is one of the fruits of the Spirit and all of the 613 laws of the Torah are in regard to how to love, so the Spirit leading us to love is not leading us to do something that is not in accordance with the Torah. I accept those passages, but not all interpretations of them. According to...

At no point does the Bible lists which are the non-moral parts of the 613 laws or state that only parts of them are non-moral. The position that there are are non-moral parts of the 613 laws would mean that we can be acting morally while disobeying those parts, however, there are no examples in...

These are three substantially different claims: 1.) Jesus taught to be doers of the Torah. 2.) Jesus taught that our salvation requires us to be doers of the Torah. 3.) Jesus taught that our salvation requires us to be doers of the Torah in order to earn it as the result. The Bible supports...

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 Torah 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...

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example and being a Christian is about being a follower of what he taught, not about refuse to follow what he taught. The problem that Paul had with the Judaizers was not that they were teaching Gentiles how to...

The New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been...

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate relationships/knowledge gained by experience, such as with Genesis 4:1 where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by having the experience of embodying His character traits, which...

There were many mikvehs in the Temple area, which is where they were gathering each day (Acts 2:46), and the only way that they would have been able to baptize three thousand people in one day would have been by using them, so they were not inventing something brand new.

God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, which is why Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God (Romans 8:4-7). The Bible frequently uses the...

In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, ad he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. Relying on ourselves does not...