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Sin is the transgression of the God's law (1 John 3:4) and God's law commands to keep the Sabbath holy (Exodus 20:8), and Jesus was sinless, therefore he never broke the Sabbath in spite of some people incorrectly thinking that he did.

While the Bible does not directly state that someone observed the Sabbath prior to Sinai, there are many examples of God's law being followed prior to Sinai without being told when God first gave it. For example in Genesis 4:7, God told Cain that sin was crouching at the door and that he must...

Indeed, someone who is living in sin is not being saved from living in sin.

No, Christianity is more about getting heaven into us than about going to heaven.

Neither. Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so while we do not earn our salvation as the result of having first obeyed it, the experience of being an obeyer of it is intrinsically the content of the gift of Jesus saving us from not...

Then they are rejecting the content of God's gift of saving them from not doing evil works.

No, I specifically denied that it is the case that we are required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result, but rather being trained by grace to do those works is itself the content of God’s gift of saving us from not doing those works.

According to OSAS, someone can do the minimum of what it takes to become saved, then spend the rest of their life actively trying to commit as much sin as they can and they will still be saved even against their will, and this is not in accordance with what the Bible teaches. Our salvation from...

In Romans 7, Paul said that the Law of God is good and that he wanted to do good, but contrasted that with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do the good that he wanted to do, so the law that he was referring to was not always the Law of God. In Romans...

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus 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 Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message as well...

We can disagree about whether I am keeping God’s law correctly and God will be the judge, but again even if your baseless accusations were correct, it would just mean that I would need to repent, not that I was wrong about the fact that followers of God should follow what He has commanded in...

Agreed. There is a big difference between these two statements: 1.) You shall not commit murder. 2.) This person has been charged with committing murder. The first is an example of a law that is for our own good while the second is an example of a handwritten ordinance that was against...

I do obey the New Covenant, you don't seem realize that the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33) Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so while we do...

Indeed, it is prejudice towards someone to have preconceived opinions about them that are not based on experience with them. You are making negative judgements about be based on your assumptions rather than on the content of my character. The are a wide variety of people who think that...

The Bible does speak about sexual orientation or about homosexuality, but prohibits homosexual sex regardless of orientation. I would hope that you make decisions about how to interact with me based upon the experience that you’ve had with me rather than prejudice, but it is your prerogative...

Most of the Torah observant Christians were initially taught against being Torah observant, which shows that we can be persuaded by the evidence to change our minds, which makes it odd that you would claim that about those who are Torah observant, especially if you have never changed your mind...

I obey God's law. God's law does not instruct me to go around executing anyone that I think has violated certain laws, but rather it instructs for the witnesses to bring accused people before a judge who does a through investigation, for no one to be put to death without at least two or there...

In Matthew 27:11, Jesus affirmed that it was as he said, however, my point in citing Matthew 27:37 was not to discuss whether he or anyone else thought he was the King of the Jews, but rather my point was that they nailed a sign to his cross that announced the charge that was against him. The...

The purpose of the barbarity of crucifixion was to act as a deterrent, so the Romans wanted to make sure that everyone knew what someone was being crucified, which is why they would nail a handwritten ordinance to their cross that announce what they had been charged with. In Matthew 27:37, they...

According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on the Mosaic Law is the way to be blessed while not relying on it is the way to be cursed, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as Paul quoting from those chapters in order to support a point that is arguing against them by saying that relying on...