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The way to love God is by being in His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, the way to love justice is by being a doer of justice in obedience to His law, the way to love holiness is by being a doer of God's instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so...

The purpose of the work is to teach us how to love Jesus, so we can't love Jesus without also loving the work.

It is about what our live is directed at. Is our goal to live in obedience to God's law so that we repent if we sin? Or is our goal to do whatever is right in our own eyes?

"Push-button salvation" is metaphorically like someone wanting just the box that the gift of salvation comes in, but not its contents. Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while we continued to have our lives directed at being doers of...

Baptism of repentance is inherently acting in faith because it is turning away from doing what is right in our own eyes and trusting God to guide us.

Sorry for not being clear. You were arguing that salvation is just a one time event, so I argued that it has past, present, and future aspects. Titus 2:11-13 does not describe our salvation as a one time event, but as being trained by grace to do those works, so it is something that is...

I said: "I would say that obedience and repentance are both acting in faith so it is not doing something in addition to faith as if faith alone weren't enough." So I directly addressed those verses and did not disagree with or ignore them.

Luther said that an idle faith is not a justifying faith, so I think that he would agree that obedience is a requirement. Again, the point of saying that we are declared righteous by faith alone is denying that we are required to have have first done enough righteous works in order to earn it...

A couple can be alone apart from the company of others while not being alone apart from others, so someone can be alone and not alone at the same time in different senses. In Romans 3:27-31, we are declared righteous by faith apart from works, so there is a sense that we are declared righteous...

The speaks about salvation, sanctification, and justification as having past, present, and future aspects, so we have been saved from the penalty of our sin (Ephesians 2:5), we are being saved from continue to be a doer of sin (Philippians 2:12), and we will be saved from God's wrath on the day...

Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while our lives continued to be directed at being doers of sin, so there must be an aspect of our gift of salvation that we are experiencing in the present by repenting and directing our lives towards...

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to to be 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, and if someone's life is directed towards...

It is good to have God’s word in us. If Jesus hadn’t had God’s word in him, then he wouldn’t have known that Satan was misquoting it and he wouldn’t have been able to quote three times from Deuteronomy in order to defeat the temptations of Satan. How can we live by every word that comes from...

In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so doing those works has absolutely nothing to do with trying to be good enough to prove that we are saved, but rather God graciously teaching...

There are no examples in the Bible of people sitting around with faith or a firm conviction that is completely independent of the way that they choose to act, but every example of faith is an example of someone who is an obeyer of God. While it is true that Abraham believed God, so he was...