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In Titus 2:11-13, the content of our gift of salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is godly, we are not extrinsically required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result, but rather...

The issue of the way to become righteous is different than the issue of what describes the behavior of the righteous. The only way to become righteous is through faith apart from being required to have first done enough works in order to earn it as the result but what it means to become...

It is contradictory to hold the position that salvation is in God's Word made flesh but not in following his example of embodying God's Word.

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 of which The Way is a sect is Judaism. Moreover, the Bible frequently...

Hebrews doesn't specifically state that it is justifying faith, though I see no reason to think that highlights of examples of faith is not justifying faith. In James 2:21-24, it says that Abraham was justified by his faith when he offered Isaac, so that confirms that the example in Hebrews...

Jesus did not come to start a new religion but rather he came as the Jewish Messiah of Judaism in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and he spent his ministry teaching his followers how to practice Judaism by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to fulfill the Torah. In Acts 21:20...

In Hebrews 11, it lists examples of justifying faith and Abraham is listed twice, neither of which is when he was justified when he believed God in Genesis 15:6, so he was justified at least three times, which does not make it purely a past event. Likewise, we have been sanctified (Hebrews...

Indeed, our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sin while our lives continued to be directed as being doer of sin, so there is an aspect of our gift of salvation that we experiencing in the present by repenting and redirecting our lives towards...

Jesus spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Torah by word and by example.

What does that have to do with the post that you were responding to?

Like I said, following what Christ taught is for Christians. It is contradictory for someone to want to be a Christian while not wanting to follow what Christ taught. Paul said that it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20) and that we are not permitted to...

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 important to correctly identify which law we are not under. For example, in Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted the Law of God...

Insisting that Paul should be interpreted as speaking against followers of Christ following his example of obedience to the Law of God does not address the issue of why you are not arguing that we should reject what Paul said in favor of obeying God.

No one has the authority to change God's commands or to countermand them. I don't think that it makes sense to interpret the Jerusalem Council as ruling that follower of Christ shouldn't follow over 99% of what he taught and even less sense to think that is what they ruled and then to think...

If there was a king who gave laws to govern the conduct of the citizens of his kingdom who warned not to listen to anyone who speaks against obeying His laws and there was someone going around speaking against obeying His laws, then would this person be a servant or an enemy of the king...

In Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God. I won’t have time to reply to more until later, but if you think that the verses that you quoted should be interpreted in a way...

You took the position that we are under the Law of Christ and are not under the Law of Moses, but have given no justification for thinking that they are not in perfect accordance with each other. The fact that Christ affirmed everything that God spoke to Moses means that it is contradictory to...

In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith. In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ...

Some people treat Christianity as if Christ has come to start his own religion, but he came as the Jewish Messiah of Judaism in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and he spent this ministry teaching his followers how to practice Judaism by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in...

The Torah is truth (Psalm 119:142), so look for the ones who are teaching to follow Christ's example of obedience to the Torah rather than the ones who are speaking against following his example.