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Do you think that God’s goal in giving His law was to teach us how to delight in Him and how avoid being crushed by sin or do you think that His goal was to crush us?

No, the truth of what Psalms 19:7-11 is describing is incompatible with the what you are describing. The Psalmists repeatedly said that they loved God’s law and delighted in obeying it, so is we consider the Psalms to be Scripture and to therefore express a correct view of God’s law, the we...

The way to place a high value on what our creators created is by honoring them while the way to place no value on what they created is by not honoring them, so the 4th Commandment is essentially the command to love ourselves. Someone who curses their creators is essentially expressing the...

The one new man still involves Gentiles being joined to covenants of promise and to Israel along with the saints in the household of God, built on the apostles and the prophets with Christ being the chief cornerstone. The Bible clearly refers to those who are Greeks, Jews, men, women, slaves...

Do you think what you described matches the same thing as what is accurately described in these verses?: Psalms 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; 8 the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the...

The Bible does not say that Gentiles are no longer to being joined the Israel. In Ephesians 2:12-19, Gentiles were are one time separated from Christ, alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, but through faith in Jesus all of...

Every form of communication requires interpretation, which is why multiple people can have different interpretations of the same verse. You are interpreting Paul as quoting from the OT in order to support a point that is arguing against what he was quoting from, which is not quite clear, but...

The Psalmists expressed an extremely positive view of obeying the Torah, such as with repeatedly saying that they loved it, they delighted in obey, and that they wanted God to be gracious then by teaching them to obey, so the view that it is God’s greatest gift is in accordance with the view...

Indeed, I have read what Paul said in Galatians, which is why I disagree that it should be interpreted as promoting rebellion against God. Moreover, even if the correct interpretation of Galatians was that Paul was promoting rebellion against God, then we must obey God rather than Paul, so we...

It is unsurprising that you ignored everything that I said in my post. Why does it make sense to you to think that relying on what God has instructed is the way to be cursed while rebelling against what God has instructed is the way to avoid being cursed? Likewise, why does it make sense to...

Do you think that all of the people who were under the Mosaic Covenant will burn in Hell forever, including those people listed in Hebrews 11? Do you think that God neglected to teach the Jews how to become saved even though Jesus said in John 4:22 that salvation is of the Jews? Our salvation...

The Israelites were given a number of laws that had the condition "when you enter the land..." while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years, so there is nothing wrong with not following laws that can't currently be followed. When the Israelites were exiled to Babylon the...

God's law is good because what it teaches us to do is for our own good (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13). In Matthew 7:23, Christ said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so God's law leads us to Christ because it was given to teach...

A chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a treasure of God's own possession are terms used to describe Israel, so Gentiles also have the delight of getting to follow the instructions that God gave to Israel for how to fulfill those roles. For example, it would be contradictory...

The Mosaic Law is God’s way (Psalms 193:7), the truth (Psalms 119:142), and the life (Deuteronomy 32:46-47), and the way to see and know the Father (Exodus 33:13), and Jesus embodied the Mosaic Law by living in sinless obedience to it, so he is the embodiment of the way, the truth, and the...

In Psalms 119:142, the Mosaic Law is truth and Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey it by word and by example, so he is the man of lawfulness in contrast with the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-11. Furthermore, the Bible repeatedly refers to the Mosaic Law as...

That depends your perspective. James 1:2-3 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Romans...

The veil was preventing people from seeing that the goal of everything in Scripture is to testify about how to know Christ, however, this is a veil that works both ways by preventing those who reject the Mosaic Law from seeing the same thing. In Psalms 119:142, the Mosaic Law is truth, and in...

Christ set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice the religion of Judaism by living in sinless obedience to the Mosaic Law, so he is by far the most religious person who has ever lived and he never spoke against turning to religion. In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry...

I didn't say that the Bible is your God. The Bible can connect concepts, such as connecting our love for God with our obedience to His commandments, such as: Exodus 20:6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing...