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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 Torah was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom/Grace...

If you do not think that the many verses that I quoted that say that the way to inherit eternal life is by obeying the Torah are wrong, then please explain how I have misunderstood them. I have personal reasons for why I am not a fan of Rabbi Tovia Singer that I won't get into and I also...

What is said only in regard to freedom from human rules should be turned into freedom from the commands of God. Paul was correct. God's feasts are foreshadows of what is to come and we should live in a way that testifies about the truth of what is to come by following Christ's example of...

How can it be idolatry to worship Jesus when the way to worship Jesus is exactly the same as the way to worship the Father? That would mean that everyone who worships the Father is also committing idolatry.

Colossians 2:16 by itself leaves room for two possible scenarios: 1.) The Colossians were not celebrating God's feasts, they were being judged by Jews because they were not, and Paul was encouraging them not to let anyone judge them for not celebrating them. 2.) The Colossians were celebrating...

In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he and Israel might know Him, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the goal of the Torah is to...

The Torah refers to the 613 moral laws that God gave to Israel through Moses that were graciously given in order to teach us how to know God through embodying His eternal character traits. The reason why the commandments to love God and our neighbor are the greatest two commandments is because...

Do you believe in the existence of the God who has the character traits that the Law of Moses was given in order to teach us how to embody? The Bible consistently uses "Torah" to refer to the Law of Moses, so justification needs to be given for why this instance of it should be interpreted as...

I don't see how you can differ with me on this point without denying the truth of Jeremiah 31:33. Everything that the Mosaic Covenant teaches us about how to embody God's character traits is eternal and cumulatively true. God's way is the way to know Him through embodying His character traits...

Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate our dialogue. God's character traits are eternal, so the way to embody them has existed from the beginning before God has made any covenants with man, so everything that God's covenants teach us about how to embody them has always been and will always...

I have not seen anyone practicing witchcraft, and even if I had, the Torah does not instruct us to kill anyone that we see committing witchcraft, but rather it instructs for there to be due process, such as with no one being putting to death without at least two or three witness. There is also...

Please respond to post #14. You should not be interpret those verses in a way that turns them against the Gospel that Jesus and Paul taught. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed to determine that someone is a false prophet is if they speak against obeying the Torah, so if you agree...

Sin is what is contrary to God's character traits, it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20) because it was given in order to teach us how to embody God's character traits, and the way to rebel against God is by being doers of sin. The way to embody God's character...

The way to rebel against the God who has the character traits that the Torah was given in order to teach us how to embody is by refusing to obey the Torah. No one who is a doer of the character traits that the Torah was given in order to teach us how to embody as rejected the Messiah...

God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalm 19:7), so the Torah is not more or less trustworthy than the giver of the Torah. Indeed, everything in the Torah was commanded in order to teach us how to follow Christ and Christ set a perfect example for us to follow...

I would think that anyone who thinks that the following verses accurately describe the Torah would voluntarily jump at the opportunity to get to experience embodying it: Psalm 19:7-11 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the...

Most Christians are opposed to following Christ's example of walking in obedience to the Torah. Are you? 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...

The Bible frequently uses the same terms to describe the character of God as it does to describe the character of the Torah, such as with it being holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), or with justice, mercy, and faithfulness being weightier matters of the Torah (Matthew 23:23), and it could...

The Torah is God's Word and Jesus is God's Word made flesh, so everything that is true about Jesus is also true about the Torah insofar as he is the embodiment of it. The Torah is the way (1 Kings 2:1-3), the truth (Psalm 119:142), and the life (Deuteronomy 32:46-47), and the way to know the...

The Torah is truth (Psalm 119:!42) Christ said that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4) Christ also set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter...