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The fact that leading people to follow other gods carries the death penalty does not mean that there is not due process.

The Torah does not instruct to go around executing anyone that we see committing a sin, but rather it instructs for there to be courts, such as with no one being put to death without at least two or three witnesses. No one can be put to death in accordance with the Torah without a Sanhedrin...

Indeed, no one is to be put to death without at least two or three witnesses, it does not instruct us to kill anyone who we see committing a sin, but rather it requires there to be a court. If I was one of three people in a room and I directly witnesses one of them murdering the other one, then...

No. I do obey the Torah. Jesus set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah, so he was much more zealous for obeying it than the scribes and Pharisees were and while he criticized them for not obeying it or for not obeying it correctly, he never criticized...

I have said nothing in support of obeying "works of the law", but rather I have been speaking in favor of obeying the Torah. Even if that were true, then it wouldn't that I was wrong about the fact that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to the Torah, so you continue...

No, I am speaking about how to live under the New Covenant, which involves God putting the 613 laws of the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33). In Psalm 119:1-3, the Torah is how to know how to be blessed by walking in God's way, and in Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to...

No, the curse is only for those who refuse to submit to the Law of God. Indeed. Do you really think that God will curse us for seeking to obey Him and the way to avoid be cursed is by refusing to obey Him?

According to Deuteronomy 27-30, the way to be blessed is by relying on the Book of the Law while the way to be cursed is by not relying on it, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as Paul quoting from that passage in order to support a point that is arguing the opposite of that passage...

I cited Exodus 12:48 Of course the Jewish Christians are required to be Christians, but that does not change the fact that the reason why God commanded circumcision was never in order to become saved as the result. It did not. The Jerusalem Council should not be interpreted as ruling that...

Gentiles who want to eat of the Passover lamb are still required to become circumcised (Exodus 12:48), so that has not changed. God never commanded circumcision for the purpose of become saved, so that also has not changed. In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message...

While someone being a witch carries the death penalty, the Torah does not instruct us to go around killing anyone who we think is a witch, but rather it instructs for there to be due process with a system of courts and guidelines like that no one is to be put to death without at least two or...

God is sovereign, so we are all under His law and are obligated to refrain from doing what He has revealed to be sin regardless of whether or not we seek to be under it. I would think that anyone who affirmed that the Torah is accurately described in Psalm 19:7-11 would jump at the opportunity...

The same Gospel that Jesus taught during his ministry to the Jews first also went out to the Gentiles, so that is not a change. Everything that I Said in response to that post makes it all clear.

I completely agree that the reason why we should obey the Torah is not in order to earn our righteousness as a wage.

I do not hold the position that the reason why we should obey the Torah is in order to earn our righteousness as the result (Romans 4:1-5), though it is also true that only the doers of the Torah will be declared righteous (Romans 2:13), so there is a reason why our righteousness requires us to...

Jesus spent his ministry teach his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example and the reason why he established the New Covenant was not in order to nullify anything that he spent his ministry teaching or sot hat we could continue to have the same lawlessness that caused it to be needed...

I do not deny the cross. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross is by becoming zealous for doing good works...

The New Covenant is still made with the same God with the same eternal character traits and therefore the same eternal and cumulatively valid instructions for how to know Him through embodying His character traits (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). Again, I agree that we are not under the...

He did not establish the New Covenant for the purpose of nullifying anything that he spent his ministry teaching.

While I agree that we are not under the law, Paul spoke about multiple categories of law other than the Law of God, such as the law of sin and works of the law, so it is is always important to be careful to discern this law he was referring to. For example, in Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul said that he...