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The Torah was given at Sinai in order to teach us how to embody the nature of God, which includes instructions for how to do that in the land of Israel. It would be overwhelming to us to exhaustively teach us how to embody the nature of God in every possible situation, so the point of the Torah...

That is a false dichotomy. The Law of Moses is His instructions for how to embody His character traits and His 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). God did not give the Law of Moses as instructions for...

There is nothing about the Mosaic Covenant being obsolete that means that the Nee Covenant doesn’t involve God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts. God’s character traits are eternal, so everything that God’s covenants teach us about how to know Him through embodying His...

In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts, so if someone wants nothing to do with obeying the Torah, then they also want nothing to do with the New Covenant.

In Psalm 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 Law of Moses, and 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 and it would be absurd to...

The Bible refers to many people as being righteous, such as with Psalm 14 referring to the generation of the righteous, or with Noah (Genesis 6:8-9) and Zechariah and Elizabeth (Luke 1:5-6), so it is false that no one at all is righteous, but that is speaking about no one being righteous from...

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. The...

I'm not stupid for being unpersuaded by what you've said just as you are stupid for being unpersuaded by what I've said. Jesus and the Apostle quoted from the OT hundreds of times to support what they were saying, so it doesn't work to take the position that they thought that what they said...

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...

Acts 14:21-22, 20:24-25, and 28:23 show that Paul taught the Gospel of the Kingdom, so please interact with them. I have reasons for rejecting the ending of Mark as being inauthentic that have nothing to do with this thread or any sort of ploy or with not accepting the truth, which I can...

It should be noted that the ending or Mark that you quoted is not found in the oldest manuscripts. I quoted verses that demonstrated that Paul also taught the Gospel of the Kingdom.

There have been a number of suggested reasons, such as with Jesus giving authority to his disciples that he did not give to everyone.. The miracles that Jesus did were not showy in order to impress others and prove that he is the Messiah, but rather he consistently downplayed them and told...

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...

There are many verses that describe the Mosaic Covenant as being a marriage between God and Israel, such as with God being described as her husband (Jeremiah 31:31), so the purpose of of the Law f Moses is to teach us how to have an intimate relationship with Him. The Hebrew word “yada” refers...

The whole Bible is true and no part of it should be interpreted as contradicting another part. Jesus and the Apostles should not be interpreted as expressing views that are contrary or override what they considered to be Scripture. For example, Jesus quoted three times from Deuteronomy in...

Those who will be judged by the law at least have the opportunity to have a positive judgement if they persist in doing good, which is far better than those who perish without the law. In Romans 5-8, Paul spoke about the Law of God as being the good that he wanted to do and the law of sin as...

Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of sin without being saved from being a doer of sin, so there is an aspect of our gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present by repenting and becoming a doer of the Law of God. Jesus graciously...

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...

Grace is a gift and gifts can't be earned, so grace is incompatible with works insofar as they are done in order to earn a wage, however, there are many other reasons that someone could have for doing works that are compatible with grace, which is why the Bible repeatedly states that God is...

While I agree that we can't earn our salvation as even as the result having perfect obedience to the Law of Moses, Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being a doer of it is intrinsically the way that he is giving us his gift of saving us from not being a doer of it. This is not mean to...