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Jesus did not invent the concept of fulfilling the law, so we should seek to understand what he meant within the context of what it meant within Judaism before Jesus said that he came to fulfill it in the way that his audience would have understood him rather that retroactively insert a future...

No. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), so there are not two different God's being described. There is law and merciful grace in both the OT and the NT. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that justice, mercy, and faith are the weightier...

Jesus and the Apostles quoted from the OT hundreds of times in order to support what they were saying, so what they said about salvation is essentially commentary on what the OT says about it. Multiple people can all affirm the truth of a verse while having different understandings about what...

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 experiencing embodying His character traits, which is the...

The Psalms express an extremely positive view of obeying the Law of God, such as with David repeatedly saying that he loved it and delighted in obeying it, so it we consider the Psalms to be Scripture and to therefore express a correct view of obeying it, then we will also delight in obeying it...

Indeed he did, though there is nothing about agreeing that he did that mean that they are a Papist and there is nothing about the day on which Christ rose that means that we should set aside God’s commands against committing idolatry, adultery, murder, theft, rape, favoritism, kidnapping, or His...

Not all works are faith, but the way to experience having faith is through our works. Take a scenario where you are observing a guide who is leading a couple people through a jungle and they come to a rope bridge that he assures them is safe. One person (P1) responds just by just standing...

The way to have allegiance to God and to submit to His authority is by embodying His character traits. Sin is what is contrary to God's character traits and sin is lawlessness because the Law of God was given for the purpose of teaching us how to know God through embodying His character traits...

The Hebrew word “yada” refers to intimate 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 experiencing being in His likeness through embodying His character traits...

The earthly Kingdom is a reflection of the heavenly Kingdom and Paul taught both.

Paul also preached the Gospel of the Kingdom/Grace based on the Law of Moses: Acts 14:21-22 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to...

In Galatians 1:22, it directly states that the churches of Judea were in Christ and I don't see how you can try to argue that anyone who is in Christ is not part of the body of Christ, moreover, being in Christ means that they had heard and believed the Gospel of the Kingdom/Grace that both...

If you are doing what God considers to be worthy of the death penalty that Christ went to the cross to pay the penalty for, the you should repent.

In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, so grace is not an alternative. Negative commands to refrain from doing something should also be understood as commands to do the reverse, so the command against committing murder should also be understood as...

Indeed, Jesus and the Apostles quoted from the OT hundreds of times in order to support what they were saying, so it does not work for someone to take the position that we should only follow what they said but not what they considered to be an authoritative source. For example, Jesus quoted...

Again, we can't earn our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to God's law, so someone not having perfect obedience to God's law does not mean that they are not righteous. The issue of the way to attain a character trait is different from the issue of what it means to...

The issue of what I happen to be doing is independent of the issue of whether what I am saying is true, so even if were the biggest hypocrite in the world who was actively trying to commit as much sin as possible, then that would just mean that I would need to repent, not that I was wrong about...

What did I say that you consider to be absolutism or legalism? If the position that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to what God has commanded is legalism, then legalism is good, but that is not what I think it means. God has not commanded anything that is not in...

Again, what I happen to be doing doesn't change whether anything that I've said is true.

Even if I were actively trying to commit as much sin as possible, then it wouldn't mean that I was wrong about the fact that we should love our neighbor as ourselves.