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If God saved the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt in order to put them under slavery to His law, then it would be for slavery that Gid sets us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for free that God sets us free, so you are not correctly identifying what he was speaking against. In...

That is sometimes but not always true. The Bible refers to multiple categories of law other than the Law of God, so it is always important to discern which law Paul is referring to. For example, in Romans 7-8, Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, that he delighted...

I grew up as a Baptist being taught to have a negative view of obeying the Law of Moses, however, the Psalms express an extremely positive view of obeying it, such as with David repeatedly saying that he loved it and delighted in obeying it, so I realized that if I was going to continue to...

The Law of Moses was given by God and the Spirit is God, so does it make sense to you to interpret that verses as saying that we aren't led by God when we are led by God? Also, you neglected to answer my question in regard to Acts 15:10.

For example, in 1 Peter 1:16, we are told to be holy for God is holy, which is a quote from Leviticus where God was giving instructions for how to do that. Do you maintain that the Mosaic Law does not teach us how to act in accordance with God's holiness? Do you think that the belief that the...

Do you grant that the Mosaic Law teaches us things that are true about how to be a doer God’s character traits? If so, then do you think that it teaches us things that are temporarily true in accordance with God having temporary character traits or that it teaches us things that have always...

Indeed. In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God spoke to him without departing from it, which is why the Law of Moses is called the Law of God in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23. God’s character traits are eternal, so there has always existed a...

Granted, the law can also refer to different categories of law other than the Law of God. No Paul was not speaking about sinning in order to reach sinners for Christ because that would have completely undermined the Gospel message. Paul was not speaking about pretending or about deceiving...

The capital L is used to refer to the name of something such as the Law of Moses, the Law of the Spirit, the Law of Christ, and the Law of God. Christ set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in the Law of the Spirit and what that looked like was a sinless example of how to walk in...

I do not think that there is any difference.

The content of a gift can be the experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience driving a Ferrari, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have that experience, but where doing that work contributes nothing towards...

Hebrew repeats words in order to add emphasis. Before Adam and Eve had eaten from either tree, they were at a crossroads between eternal life and mortality where eating from the Tree of Life would have caused them to have eternal life while eating from the Tree of Knowledge caused them to...

You did not address Exodus 33:13, which provides important context for how to correctly interpret Galatians 4:8-11, so please address these issuess: 1.) Is God’s way the way to know and be known by God? If not, then what is the way to do that? 2.) Did God teach Moses how to know and be known...

Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” Galatias 4:8-10 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature...

The real Jesus set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah. In Psalms 119:142, the Torah is truth. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed to determine that someone is a false prophet who is not speaking for Him is if...

It depends on what qualifies as a contradiction. For example, one Gospel records an incident where a Centurion spoke to Jesus and another Gospel says that the Centurion sent a servant to speak to Jesus, so on one level that is a contradiction. However, a Centurion is a busy man who can’t be...

In Matthew 7:24, Jesus did not conclude the Sermon on the mount way saying that he was just kidding and that we can't actually do as he commanded but rather he concluded by saying that everyone who hears his words and does them is like a man who builds his house on a rock. The only reason why...

The way to love God is by embodying His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, the way to love justice is by being a doer of justice, 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 forth. In other words...

I said that that it is true that works have no part in earning our salvation, yet you continued to argue that works have no part in earning our salvation. I said that it is false that works have no part in God's gift of salvation, yet you argue that I don't understand that God's gift of...

You quoted me as saying that works have no part in earning our salvation, so then why are you continuing to argue that we can’t earn our salvation instead of interacting with what I said?