What if repentance is not about feeling guilty, regretful or ashamed? How do you define repentance?

[bytheblood]

You notably did not answer any of my questions.

In Deuteronomy 30, it forms the basis for the New Covenant by prophesying about a time when the Israelites will return from exile, God will circumcise their hearts, and they will return to obedience to the Torah, which is what Jeremiah 31:33 and Ezekiel 36:26-27 are in regard to. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts, and in Ezekiel 36:26-27, it involves God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending His Spirit to lead us in obedience to the Torah, so those who want nothing to do with following Christ's example of obedience to it also want nothing to with being under the New Covenant. Jesus spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example and the reason why he established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or so that we could continue to have the same lawlessness that caused it to be needed in the first place, but rather it still involve following the Torah.

In Hebrews 8:7-9, the fault that God found with the Mosaic Covenant was not with His righteousness or righteous laws, but rather He found fault with the people for not continuing in their covenant, so the reason why the New Covenant was needed was not in order to do way with God's righteousness and righteous laws but to do away with what was hindering us from obeying them. This is why the New Covenant involve God sending us His Son to free us from sin so that we might be free to meet the righteous requirement of the Torah (Romans 8:3-4), God taking away our hearts of stone, giving us hearts of flesh, and sending His Spirit to lead us in obedience to the Torah (Ezekiel 36:26-27), and God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts so that we will obey it (Jeremiah 31:33).

Just a question, but are you Jewish?

 

[bytheblood]

It is contradictory for someone to believe in the truth of Psalm 19:7-11 as Scripture while not wanting to follow the Torah.


A Sabbath's day's journey does not refer to a maximum number of steps that someone can take on the Sabbath but to the maximum distance that someone can travel outside of a residential area before they are leaving the city limits, which is 2,000 cubits (Numbers 35:5). Someone is not limited in how much they can walk within a residential area.



In Deuteronomy 17:18, it specifically instructs the king to write a copy of the Torah, so even if I were to do that, then it would not qualify as fulfilling that command because I am not the king, so we do not get to follow all 613 laws.


Love fulfills the law because it is showing a correct understanding of what all of the other laws are essentially about how to do. If someone feels free to commit idolatry because they think that they are only required to obey the command to love God, then they are not fulfilling the command against idolatry, and the same is true for everything else in the Torah. The Bible repeatedly states that the way to love God is by obeying His commandments, so it is impossible to love God instead of obeying His commandments. You can falsely choose to love God in whatever way you see fit or you can choose to truly love God in the way that He wants to be loved.


The way to pick up your cross daily and follow him is not by refusing to follow the example that he set for us to follow.


The only way to acquire a character trait is through faith, but what it means to have a character trait is to be a doer of works that embody that trait, so what it means for someone to be courageous is for them to be a doer of courageous works and what it means for someone to be righteous is for them to be a doer of righteous works in obedience to the Torah (1 John 3:4-7). If you try to abuse 1 Timothy 1:9-10 into saying that being a doer of righteous works is only for the unrighteous in order to justify your freedom to be a doer of unrighteous works, then you thereby become an unrighteous person that the Torah is made for. Seriously, what did those poor verses do you? Christ embodied the righteousness of God through his works by being setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah, so that is also the way that we have the gift of getting can to live when we are made the righteousness of God in him.

I don't know how old you are, but you remind me of Chubby Checker, you do the twist. I didn't try to abuse 1 Tim 1:9-10, I just posted who it says the law is for, so you must be accusing Paul, who spent 3 yrs. getting revelation from Jesus in Arabia, of abusing scripture. As I asked before, show me ONE scripture, in the New Covenant, that a Christian should follow the Mosaic Law, I gave you scripture that says we shouldn't. Much of your posts are convoluted.