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The only that the Law of Moses can be temporary is if what it teaches us about how to know God through embodying His character traits is also temporary, but God's character traits are eternal. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalm 119:142), therefore all of His righteous laws are...

No, though I do reject certain interpretations of his vision and so should you.

That is not what was stated. If you do not take the blasphemous position that that the holy, righteous, and good commandments of God are the doctrine of demons, then you should not interpret what Paul said in regard to the doctrine of demons as referring to the commands of God. In Colossians...

Peter notably did not just object by saying that he had never eaten anything that was unclean but also added that he had never eaten anything that was common and God notably only rebuked Peter for referring to what He has made clean as being common but did not rebuke him for referring to what He...

The old man was the one who lived in sin in transgression of the Law of Moses, not in obedience to it. We are new creations in Christ to do good works and the Law of Moses is God's instructions for how to do good works. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Law of Moses as being about how...

Indeed. In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ 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...

Yes.

I said nothing about mixing covenants, but rather I have been speaking about how to live under the New Covenant, which involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts. While all of God's covenants are distinct, they are all made with the same God with the same eternal...

I've said nothing in favor of living under the Mosaic Covenant, but rather I have been speaking about how to live under the New Covenant, which involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33), so if you want nothing to do with obeying the Torah, then you...

We are told to follow Christ's example of refraining from sin (1 Peter 2:21-22), so that is what I am speaking in regard to and that is something that we can choose to do. While Paul denied in Romans 4:1-5 that we can earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the...

Why does it make sense to you to think that someone following Christ's example of obedience to what God has commanded with send them to hell instead of rebelling against what God has commanded? God wanted His children to repent and to return to obedience to His law all throughout the Bible and...

I do not ignore the New Covenant. The New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33) and God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending His Spirit to lead us to obey it (Ezekiel 36:26-27), so it is those who...

You really believe that following Christ's example of obedience to what God has commanded will send someone to hell? How is it stupid to take the position that followers of Christ should follow his example?

That was not a presupposition. The Bible frequently calls for repentance from sin and it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20). God is gracious to use by teaching us to obey the Mosaic Law (Psalm 119:29) and the New Covenant still involves following the...

The fact Law of God was never given as a way of earning our righteousness or our salvation even as the result of having perfect obedience to it does not mean that there is no connection between our gift of righteousness or our gift salvation and our gift of getting to experience being a doer of...

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 can be many other reasons for doing works, such as in order to embody our love, in order to embody our faith, in order to look good in the eyes of...

Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to follow the Mosaic Law by word and by example and the Christian Life is about following what Christ taught, not about refusing to follow what he taught. The Mosaic Law is truth (Psalm 119:142), so you are the one who can't see the truth. I...

I just showed that he taught the Law of Moses. 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...

Being declared righteousness through faith alone is in perfect accordance with being declared righteous by doing God's righteousness through faith and imputed righteousness. While the only way to become righteous is through faith alone apart from being required to have first done enough...

That is a good distinction to make. 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 His law, 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...