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Indeed, we are not at liberty to break the Ten Commandments or any or God's other commandments, such as those against committing rape, kidnapping, or favoritism.

I didn't say that it is not referring to the Ten Commandments, but that it is not speaking about only ten of God's commandments. God has given many more commandments than just the Ten Commandments, so it is not the case that we only need to obey the Ten Commandments and are at liberty to break...

In James 2:1-11, he criticized them for the sin of committing favoritism, which is not listed as one of the Ten Commandments.

In 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to the Law of God are not born again, and in Romans 8:4-14, Paul contrasted those who are born of 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. There is...

Likewise, if we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit rape, kidnapping, favoritism, and so forth for the rest of God's commandments.

In Revelation 22:14, it notably does not state that it is speaking about only ten of God's commandments.

That seems oddly selective considering that in a number of those categories the OT and/or the NT speaks about both of the things being contrasted what what is being contrasted isn't always the same thing. For example, #2 isn't contrasting the same thing and both the OT and the NT refer to God...

You're welcome. Feelings generally follow what we do, so if we spend acting in love towards someone, then we will generally develop feelings of love towards them, but feelings can come and go like gas, so we need to still act in love even when we are not feeling it.

Two people who get married are not vowing to always feel love towards each other, but are vowing to always act in love towards each other. Likewise, God's commands to love Him and our neighbor are not commands to feel love, but to act in love. The Bible often uses the same terms to describe...

I just don't like your denial that Jesus gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins.

For you to insist that the penalty of their sin should still be enforced is to deny that Jesus gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins.

I find that hard to believe. For example, you’re telling me that you don’t know anyone who has ever honored their parents? I don’t believe it.

The Law of Moses is referred to as being the Law of God in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23. In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him without departing from it, so it is called the Law of Moses not because it belongs to Moses, but...

Jesus gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins, so it would be unjust to enforce a penalty that he has already paid. Still not he fact that God considers breaking the Sabbath to be worthy of the death penalty and the fact that Jesus gave himself to pay that penalty on our behalf should make...

Indeed, Paul said when he meant when he referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim, yet it is not the word of faith that you proclaim. It notably says nothing about selling their daughters as sex slaves, but rather it says that she is to have food, clothing , and marital...

So then in accordance with those verses, do you think that we should choose life and a blessing by obeying the Mosaic Law or death and a curse by not obeying it? So then you deny the truth of Jeremiah 31:33. The Bible does not support selling our daughters as sex slaves. So then do you think...

The issue is that some of God's commandments appear to conflict with each other, such as when God commanded priests to rest on the Sabbath while also commanding priests to making offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that priests were forced to sin by breaking...

Indeed, I believe that because I do know and understand the Mosaic Law. Do you affirm or deny the truth of Deuteronomy 30:11-20 and Romans 10:5-8? If you believe this it is because you do not know or understand the Mosaic Law. The Mosaic Covenant is often described in terms as being a...

In Proverbs 3:5-7, we have a choice between whether we are going to lean on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own or whether we are going to trust in God with all of our hearts to correctly divide between right and wrong through obeying His instructions in...

If someone says that the law is only for the unrighteous in order to justify their freedom to live unrighteously, then they thereby become someone that God's law is for. In Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is God's law. In Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those...