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Christianity at its origin was the sect of Judaism that recognized Jesus as the Messiah. A label is good only insofar as it quickly converts information to the average person that are accurate about me. So if I were to identify as a Christian without qualification, then that would communicate...

In Acts 24:14, Paul testified that according to The Way, which they call a sect, he continued to worship the God of their fathers, believing everything laid down by the Torah and written in the Prophets, and the religion that The Way is a sect of is Judaism, so do you even know which religion...

it is important to recognize that the Bible can speak against obeying what God has commanded for an incorrect reason without speaking against obeying what God has commanded, so the fact that the Law of Moses was never given as a way to earn our salvation even as the result of perfect obedience...

I am still connected with the apostolic Church. I think that it is incorrect to interpret the Apostles as speaking against obeying what He has commanded, but I am not doing my own thing.

They attended synagogues throughout Acts, but that doesn't mean that they were not Christians or part of the Church. A Christian is by definition a follower of Christ and I am a follower of Christ.

Beth Immanuel. Then the Church should be teaching to follow God's instructions for how to be blessed rather than against doing that. The Greek word "ekklesia" is translated as "church" and is first used in the Septuagint to refer to Israel at Pentecost, so that is the Church. There are a...

It is absurd to think that I am a non-Christian because I am follow Christ's example of obedience to what God has commanded. It is an ekklesia.

If you think that my interpretation is wrong, then by all means please explain why you think so. While I appreciate those who have preserved the Bible, that doesn't necessity mean that their interpretations of the Bible are correct, but rather their interpretations of the Bible should stand or...

Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Church teaching us about who God is doesn't mean that the OT doesn't also teach us about who God is. Everything that teaches us about who God is is relevant to followers of God. Yes. Yes. Jews have the role of being a light and a blessing to the nations. The...

I did not create my own version of what Christ taught. In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ 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...

The authors of those books should not be interpreted as contradicting what they considered to be Scripture or as speaking against following what Christ taught. In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him without departing from it, which is why the Law of Moses is...

Jesus quoted three times from Deuteronomy in order to defeat the temptations of Satan, which included saying that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so he affirmed God as being an authoritative source, which includes affirming what God spoke in...

The Exodus teaches us about who God is and we should live in a way that testifies about the truth of who God rather than a way that bears false witness against who God is regardless of whether we are a Jew or a Gentile. This is why the Bible leaves room for Gentiles to also celebrate Passover...

Being a Christian is by definition about being a follower of what Christ taught, not about refusing to follow what He taught.

We embody what we believe what we believe to be true about God through our works, such as with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through his works, so everyone who is a doer of the same works as James believes in Jesus. In other words, the way to believe in God is by embodying His...

Indeed, though it is also part of the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). God did not give His law as a way of establishing our own righteousness, but in order to teach us how to embody His righteousness. The one and only way to become righteous is through faith apart from being...

You are deliberately taking Isaiah 1 out of context, but do you consistently also think that God doesn't listen to prayers? Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

The issue of whether followers of Christ should follow his example of keeping the Sabbath holy is different from the issue of whether someone is correctly doing that, but yes we should also follow God's instructions for how to keep it holy. In 1 Peter 1:16, we are told to be holy for God is...

How am I selling Jesus out? Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example, so he is the man of lawfulness, which is in contrast with the Antichrist, who is the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3). I am much more concerned for Christians than for...

In Hebrews 11, it lists people who had saving faith in spite of having never read the NT, so that is not a requirement for salvation. Likewise, Jesus affirmed in the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus that listening to Moses and the Prophets was enough. In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put...