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Bottom line: Jesus REJECTED their words and REJECTED their pretense of "authority from God". Jesus DID NOT follow their words, and DID NOT have His disciples follow their words. Therefore, when He says "do all they say but don't do as they do" He was being sarcastic. He did not follow, and...

Exodus 12 49There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you. When the issue between Jewish and Gentile believers' beliefs on how to live before God arose in the Roman Church, Paul resolved it with "each man is to be fully convinced in his own mind": God's...

Precedent: the Gentile believers are "doers of the Law" without even knowing the Law, because the Spirit writes the Law on their hearts. Conclusion: Christians don't need the Law to be deemed "doers of the Law". Why? "God's righteousness is revealed apart from the Law": Jesus's Name is "God Is...

You must not have read: Matthew 15 1Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.” 3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your...

Yep, Paul, inspired by the Spirit of God, deems the Gentile believers, "who do not have the Law", "doers of the Law" (they are doers of the Law without even knowing the Law), because they reveal God's righteousness (not their own) by walking in faith (Ro 1:17, 14:5, 23), in Romans 2, so there's...

Jesus, directed by God, went out of His way to command a man to break the Jewish religious "authorities" Sabbath rules. John 5 8Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.” 9Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the...

Oops! Jesus, Himself, rejected their oral law as false, quoting Isaiah, "In vain do they worship Me" "they draw near with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me", and rejected their pretense of "God-ordained" authority (Matthew 15): He was being sarcastic when He said "do everything they...

Faith in God's testimony about His Son is already "doing the thing God wants you to do" ("obedience of faith", "law of faith"), and the reason is that all righteousness is is revealing the truth about God--when you say "God is true", you are already revealing the truth about God, thus "doing...

Agreed, faith is counted as righteousness, and "the Law was not made for the righteous", so we're not under Law; after we receive Grace, our walking in faith reveals God's righteousness (Ro 1:17), not "our own from the [the knowledge of good and evil]" (Pp 3:9), thus the movements of our lives...

Since unrighteousness is a suppression of the truth about God (Ro 1:18,19), the flip side of the same coin would be that righteousness is a revelation of the truth about God : when God speaks about Himself, and we adhere to the Word God spoke (ie, God's Gospel about His Son), we are saying, "God...

This presentation makes some pretty persuasive arguments that they indeed are of the 10 Lost Tribes.

I did do the work. Your reply was, "I know that no one else agrees with my view of the Scriptures on this issue, but the reason all the teachers and commentaries (even those written by people who agree with OSAS, the view I'm trying to preserve) disagree must be because the bookstores, who sell...

I will share my "take" on the issue of "faith vs works". Walking by faith is not "works". "Works" is "a righteousness of my own"; walking in faith is God's righteousness (Ro 1:17; 14:5,23). "I was abundant in labors above them all, yet, not I, but the grace with me." "I have been crucified...

Also. there's Ro 8:1 "no condemnation for those in Christ", yet Ro 14:23 says the believer who sins by doing what he is not fully convinced is correct "is condemned": not all remain "in Christ" (1 Jn 2:28), where there is no condemnation, because remaining in Him is by obeying God's commands (1...

I never meant that there are ACTUALLY irreconcilable problems in the Scripture, I'm saying that it makes sense with God's help, but that the code that makes the Bible unintelligible is not breakable by a human--and, yes, there are many others.

Because we were all made to reveal God, the problem with the world is that we are giving false testimony about God. Satan, first and foremost, was the father of false testimony about God--murder, not the Word of Life. When we believe Jesus, we are, thereafter, committing to reveal the truth...

I already answered the conundrum. "Works" corresponds to "a righteousness of my own", but when we walk in faith, that is a revelation of God's righteousness (Ro 1:17), thus it is, categorically, not "works"--when a believer walks in grace and faith, he fulfills the Law, but it is God's...

That's why faith is counted as righteousness--it is a testimony that "God is true" (Jn 3:33), thus it is a revelation of God, unto the glory of God, thus it is righteousness, not an instance of suppressing the truth about God (Ro 1:18). Faith being counted as "righteousness" is not just an...

This very thread touches on one of the most enigmatic problems in the Bible: how can Ro 3 definitively say that by the works of the Law no flesh can be justified, and, yet, Ro 2 (and really the entire New Testament) say only doers of the Law will be justified? You, even, were grateful for the...

In truth, "righteousness" is one and the same as the revelation of God. 1 John 1 1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. 2And this is the life that was...