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The Law of Moses was never given as a way of earning our righteousness, salvation, or eternal life even as the result of having perfect obedience to it, but rather it was given to describe the life of someone who is getting to experience those gifts and it describes the life of Christ. The...

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 Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel...

A Christian is by definition a follower of Christ and every Christian considers themselves to a follower of Christ, but if you think that there a difference between the two, then you are essentially treating them as being different denominations while not wanting to call them that. The issue...

You notably neglected to quote a single post from this forum that states that we need to earn our salvation.

You seem to enjoy ranting against trying to earn our salvation, but can you quote a single post in this forum that states that we need earn our salvation?

Indeed, the large number of denominations has much more to do with local autonomy than to do with differences in doctrine, though differences do exist. 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...

Neither Jesus nor John spread the message to stop repenting because the Law of God has ended now that they have come and we have been cursed by being set free to become doers of what it reveals to be wickedness, but just opposite, they called for repentance from our disobedience to it, which was...

In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against relaxing the least part of it, so you should not interpret fulfilling the law as meaning that he abolished or relaxed many parts of it. If you...

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate relationships/knowledge gained by experience, such as with Genesis 4:1 where Adam knew (yada) Eve, she conceived, and gave birth to Cain. God’s way is the way to know (yada) Him and Jesus by having the experience of embodying His character traits, which...

In Psalm 119:142, the Law of Moses is truth and in John 8:31-36, it is the transgression of the Law of Moses that puts us into bondage while the truth sets us free. The reason why someone can't stop wanting to sin is because they are under the law of sin, not the Law of Moses. The Psalms...

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so Jesus graciously teaching us 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. So the Law of Moses...

Paul referred to categories of law other than the Law of Moses, such as with the law of sin and works of the law. For example, in Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted the Law of God with the law of sin and contrasted the Law of the Spirit with the law of sin death. Sometimes a word is translated...

We can't earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to the Law of God because it was never given as a way of doing that in the first place. In Romans 3:21-22, it does not say that the Law and the Prophets testify that the righteousness of God comes as the result of...

In Hebrews 11, it lists examples of justifying faith and Abraham was listed twice when he obeyed the call to go to the land where he would received his inheritance (Hebrews 11:8) and when he offered Isaac (Hebrews 11:17), neither of which was when he was justified when he believed God (Genesis...

In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Ephesians 2:8-10, we are...

What good is justification or vindication before man but not before God?

If you are making a distinction between justification before God and before man, then that leaves room for someone to be justified before man while not being justified before God, however, I don’t see the value of this or of man seeing someone as being justified who is not justified before God...

What would be the value of Abraham being justified before man, but not before God? What would be the value of man seeing Abraham as being justified if he was not justified before God? What would be the value of James making this point? Where is the precedent for James to speak about...

Sin is the transgression of the Law of God (1 John 3:4), so Jesus frees us from having sinned by paying the penalty for our sin and he is freeing us from continuing to live in sin by graciously leading us to be a doer of good works in obedience to the Law of God, which is what he accomplished...

I suggest looking up Suzerain vassal covenants in connection with the Bible. There is a reality that is eternally true about the way to embody God's character traits that was eternally true before God made any covenants with man, that has been revealed through God's covenants, and that is...