This hope is in the Law of Moses, not Jesus, IMO
It is contradictory for someone to put their hope in God's word, but not in God's word made flesh. God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy, so the way to trust God is by obediently trusting in God's instructions and it is contradictory for someone to think that we should trust in God, but not in His instructions.
Jesus is God's word made flesh, so he is the truth, but that is in accordance with God's word being truth, not in contrast with it.
This Hope is in the Law, not Jesus.
It is contradictory to put your hope in Jesus, but not in what he taught.
Jesus is the Truth, not the Mosaic Law. This exalts the Law as God of mankind, IMO.
So then you deny the truth of Psalms 119:142?
Death is the consequence of sin. This is why it is the Ministry of Death, Chiseled in Stone. Hebrews 2:14, 1 Corinthians 15:55,56
In Romans 10:5-8, it references Deuteronomy 30:11-20 as the world of faith that we proclaim in regard to proclaiming that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life! So it is a ministry of life for those who obey it (Deuteronomy 32:46-47, Proverbs 3:18, Proverbs 6:23, Matthew 19:17, Luke 10:25-28, Romans 2:6-7, Romans 6:19-23, Hebrews 5:9, Revelation 22:14) and the fact that it is a ministry of death for those who refuse to obey it is not a very good reason to refuse to obey it.
The Mosaic Law is to have the mind set on the flesh.
In Romans 8:4-7, it doesn't say that the Mosaic Law is to have the mind set on the flesh, but rather it contrasts those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Mosaic Law. Likewise in Galatians 5:16-23, everything listed as works of the flesh that are contrary to the Spirit are also contrary to the Mosaic Law while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it.
Galatians is clear that this type of discussion can cut one off from the Grace of Jesus Christ, IMO.
Christ set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6), so it is absurd to interpret Galatians as warring that we will be cut off from Christ if we follow Christ and that the way to not be cut off from him is by refusing to follow him.
This is re-crucifying Jesus Christ, IMO
In Titus 2:14, Christ 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 becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Mosaic Law is the way to believe in what Jesus finished on the cross (Acts 21:20) while returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from is the way to reject what he finished.
This is tying up heavy burdens on the backs of believers, IMO
In 1 John 5:3, to love God is to obey His commandments, which are not burdensome. Do you think that we should love God?
That Law is at enmity with the Spirit. We are under the Law of Love, not the law of sin and death. The accuser used the Law as his power against mankind. IMO
In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted the Law of God with the law of sin and contrasted the Law of Spirit with the law of sin and death, so while the law of sin is contrary to the Spirit, the Law of Moses is not, rather the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey it (Ezekiel 26:26-27).
You are saying we are saved by obedience to the Law and trying to verbally cover your tracks. You make it clear that one that doesn't follow the Law is lost. This means that to be saved, one must obey Moses. IMO
No, there are many verses like Ephesians 2:8-10 that speak against earning our salvation as the result of our obedience to the Mosaic Law while also speaking in favor of our salvation requiring us to be doers of good works in obedience of it. Likewise, 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 we are required be a worker of lawfulness. In Hebrew 5:9, Jesus has become a source of eternal salvation for those who obey him, so the Bible is abundantly clear that our salvation from not being an obeyer of God intrinsically requires us to be an obeyer of God.
You are welcome by the Apostle Paul to esteem a day over others.
Paul didn't mentioned the Sabbath once in Romans 14 precisely because it had nothing to do with the topic he was discussing. The reason why were are to keep the Sabbath holy is not because man esteemed it as a disputable matter of opinion, but because God rest on on it after six days of Creation, He blessed it, He sanctified it, He sanctifies us, and because He commanded His children to keep it holy. The Sabbath is holy to God regardless of whether or not we keep it holy and what is holy to God should not be profaned by man, so we would still be obligated to keep the Sabbath holy even if God had never commanded anyone to do that.
Paul was a servant of God, so he should not be interpreted as speaking against obeying Him, but if you think that is what Paul was doing, then you should not consider him to be a servant of God. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed His children to determine that someone is a false prophet who is not speaking for Him was if they taught against obeying the Mosaic Law. The bottom line is that we must obey God rather than man, so if you think that Paul spoke against obeying God, then you should be quicker to disregard everything that he said than to disregard anything that God has commanded, though the reality is that Paul was a servant of God who never spoke against obeying anything that He has commanded.
Please define "doing justice".
Justice could not be said to be one of the weightier matters of the Mosaic Law if it were not instructions for how to be a doer of justice.
What does that have to do with the fact that God's law is His instructions for how to be a doer of His character traits?
The Ministry of Death Chiseled in stone didn't have the Adulterous about to get stoned to death feeling loved.
If Jesus had stoned her, then he would have sinned in violation of God's law.
I believe that Jesus gave a NEW COMMAND for a reason. Love is Love and Stone is Stone.
There is nothing brand new about the command to love our neighbor because it can be found in Leviticus 19:18, but what is new about that command is the quality of the example by which we should love our neighbor, and indeed the Greek word used refers to newness in regard to quality rather than in regard to time:
3501 /néos ("new on the scene") suggests something "new in
time" – in contrast to its near-synonym (
2537 /kainós, "new in
quality").
In Deuteronomy 4:2, it is a sin to add to or subtract from the Mosaic Law so if Jesus had been giving a brand new command, then he would have sinned and therefore disqualified himself from being our Savior. Part of the command to love our neighbor as ourselves is the command to love ourselves, so in order to correctly obey that command we need to know how we should love ourselves, and the answer to that is that we should love ourselves as Jesus loves us, which is therefore how we should also love our neighbor. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Mosaic Law as being about how to love God and our neighbor, so he loved us through his obedience to it and that is is also how we should love our neighbor. Love is not doing something other than what is in accordance with the Mosaic Law. Changing the medium upon which God's law is written from stone to our hearts does not change the content of what it instructs, for example, the command to honor our parents written on stone has the same content as the command to honor our parents written on our heart.
The Old and New wine don't mix. It bursts the vessel and wastes the wine, per Jesus' own words. IMO
Jesus gave the parable about the wine skins to answer a question about why his disciples weren't fasting, so you are blatantly taking it out of context, moreover, you are trying to turn it against his entire ministry, which was spent teaching us to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example. Furthermore, that doesn't detract from the fact that the Bible repeatedly states in both the OT and the NT that the way to love God is by obeying His commandments, which is because His commandments are His instructions for how to love Him.
John 13 contains the very Commands being spoken of. Jesus gives these NEW commands.
Again, Jesus said that his teachings were not his own, but that of the Father, so his teachings should not be understood as being contrary to what the Father has taught. Furthermore, in John 15:10, Jesus used a parallel statement to equate his commandments with those of the Father.
We have to be perfect like God in our flesh, to be loved by God?
I said that the way to love the Father is exactly the same as the way to love the Son because the Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact image of His character (
Hebrews 1:3).
Why is 1 John 1:8 in scripture?
There is a different between someone who is not sinless, but still an obeyer of God and someone who is a disobeyer of God.
This is not being saved by Jesus Christ, but the Law of Moses.
The way that Jesus saves us from not being an obeyer of the Law of Moses is by teaching us to experience being an obeyer of it.
Hebrews the entire book is clear that if we turn from Jesus back to Moses, there is no sacrifice left for us. IMO
Hebrews does not say that, but rather it says that opposite:
Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
In Romans 3:20, it is by the Law of Moses that we have knowledge of what sin is, and in Psalms 119:142, the Mosaic Law is truth, so it is also the way that we have received knowledge of the truth, so if we go back to being a transgressor of the Law of Moses, then there remains no sacrifice left for us. Jesus is God's word made flesh and the Mosaic Law is God's word made flesh, so it is contradictory to turn from Jesus back to the Law of Moses. Likewise, it is contradictory to turn from Jesus back to what Jesus taught.
Is Jesus our Savior, or are we "Co-Saviors" of ourselves with Jesus?
Jesus is our Savior from sin and the way that he saves us from sin is by leading us to be obeyers of God's law/refrainers from sin. God did not give His law as instructions for how to save ourselves.
