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It is far preferable to be judged by the Torah than to perish. In Romans 2:13-14, only the doers of the Torah will be justified and Gentiles will by nature be doers of the Torah. The issue of the way to become righteous is different than what describes the behavior of the righteous. The only...

According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so it refers to something that countless people have done and should continue to do in perpetuity, not to something unique that only Christ could do. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the...

It is a simple verse that many Christians refuse to accept.

Where? 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? While it is true that the New Covenant is not like the covenant that God made with their fathers, the New Covenant involves God putting the Torah...

Someone can reject a misrepresentation of Jesus without rejecting the actual Jesus. For example, Jews have been persecuted in the name of Jesus over the course of the past two thousand years, so there is nothing wrong with Jews rejecting that Jesus. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God...

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 it, which is why everyone who relies on works of the law instead of the Book of the Law comes under that curse.

Hello, I was speaking in regard to the Torah, not just the Noahide laws. Whether or not Jesus can be worshiped in a way that is idolatrous and/or non-idolatrous is an important issue, but the flaw is not with God's command against committing idolatry. Jews parade a Torah scroll around the room...

I have not suggested that Gentiles should come under the Mosaic Covenant, but rather I have been speaking about the way to live under the New Covenant, which is also the way that we should live regardless of which covenant we are under. God's character traits are eternal, so everything that...

There can be legitimate reasons for not following particular laws. For example, in Deuteronomy 17:18, it specifically instructs the king to write a copy of the Torah, so everyone who is not the king has a legitimate reasons for not obeying that law. The Israelites were given a number of laws...

Again, the fact that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to the Law of Moses is true regardless of whether or not I obey it, though it is false that I do not obey it. It is also false that you do not obey it.

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, in 1 Kings 2:1-3, God taught how to walk in His way through the Law o fMoses, and in Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to...

The fact that followers of Christ should follow his example of obedience to the Law of Moses is true regardless of whether or not anyone does that, though it is false that nobody does that. For example, it is false that no one has ever loved God or their neighbor. In Romans 10:5-8, Paul...

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 Torah 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...

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in the Spirt/walk in obedience to the Law of Moses. Again, the reason why we should obey the Law of God...

The Law of God 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 Father (Exodus 33:13), and Jesus embodied the Law of God by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to it, so he is the way, the...

Sorry for not being clear. You said It is not that someone being a doer of righteous works is evidence that they are righteous but that that is what it means to be righteous. God declaring someone to become righteous does not cause them to become righteous but rather it is simply recognizing...

If it were correct to interpret Galatians 5:1 as referring to the Law of God as being bondage, then that would mean that God freed the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt in order to put them under bondage to His law, which is the opposite of that verse stating that it is for freedom that God...

The only way to attain a character trait is through faith but what it means to have a character trait to be a doer of works that embody that trait. For example, the only way to become courageous is through faith apart from being required to have first done enough courageous works in order to...

The Bible frequently connects our belief in God with our obedience to Him, such as with John 3:16-21 and John 3:36 or with Revelation 14:12 where those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God's commandments, so it is not so much that one is better than the other as it is that...

Being a child of someone is about being in their image through being a doer of their character traits, such as with John 8:39, where Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doers of the same works as him. God's way is the way to know Him through embodying His...