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Living in complete rebellion against God is not given as the better opinion.

In Colossians 2:20-23, Paul described what he was speaking against as being elementary principle of the world, human teachings and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so he was speaking about paganism, not OT laws. In Hebrews 8:10, is is quoting from Jeremiah...

In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God, so obedience to God is part of the way to receive the Spirit, however, Galatians 3:1-2 denies that "works of the law" are part of the way to receive the Spirit, therefore that phrase does not refer to obedience to God, so part of the...

These are two separate issues: 1.) Whether it is necessary to keep God's law in order to earn our justification as the result. 2.) Whether it is necessary to keep God's law. While there are many verses like Romans 4:1-5 that deny #1, there are many verses like Matthew 7:21 that support #2...

We should refrain from doing what God has revealed to be sin regardless of which commands were included as part of the covenant that God made with Israel at Sinai. For example, it was a sin to commit adultery in Genesis 39:9 long before Sinai, so we should refrain from committing adultery...

Is that based on your personal theology or on what you can quote from what is stated in the Bible?

In Deuteronomy 5:31-33, Moses wrote down everything that God commanded him to without departing from it, so none of the laws were his laws. Likewise, the speaks of the Law of Moses as being the Law of Gods in verses like Nehemiah 8:1-8, Ezra 7:6-12, and Luke 2:22-23. While the 10 Commandments...

All of God's laws have the same moral authority regardless of whether He wrote them or told Moses to write them. The Bible never uses the Greek word "dogma" to refer to the Law of Moses, but rather the handwriting of ordinances that was against us was the list of sins that we have committed...

To suggest that some of God's laws are not moral laws is to suggest that we can be acting morally while disobeying those laws, however, there is no example in the Bible of disobedience to any of God's laws being said to be moral and I do not see justification for thinking that it can ever be...

Likewise, Jesus did not establish the New Covenant for the purpose of negating anything that he spent his ministry teaching, but rather the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:10). Laws that weren't followed after...

Every example of faith listed in Hebrews 11 is an example of works, so the significance of doing good works is not that they are part of something that they are required to have done first in order to earn their salvation as the result, but rather the significance is that that is is expressing...

Hello, God's was given for our own good in order to teach us how to know Him, so we have no need to redeemed from the law, then but rather we had the need to be redeemed from our lawlessness. In Titus 2:14, it doesn't say that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from God's law, but in order to...

The problem with most of what you said is that it is not in accordance with what is taught by the Bible. Jesus did not go to the cross or teach anything after the cross in order to negate anything that he spent his ministry teaching. In John 12:46-50, it does not leave us any room to reject...

In Romans 6:14-23, Paul was contrasting serving the law of sin with serving the Law of God. The Law of God leads us to do what is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), so it is the law where holiness, righteousness, and goodness have dominion over us, however, the law of sin stirs up sinful...

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 Mosaic Law 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 of...

Hebrews 11 is lists examples of saving faith, so the fact that only way of salvation is through Jesus, then that is how they were saved in spite of having limited knowledge of his incarnation. In Hebrews 1:3, the Son is the exact image of God’s character, so saying that he is the only way to...

A chip off the old block is someone who is in the image of their father by expressing same character traits through doing the same works as them, which is the concept that the Bible is referring to by being a child of son of someone, such as in John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of...

Anyone with access to the Bible can read God’s law, so pretending it isn’t there won’t make it go away. It is one thing for there to be no wrath for when someone sins while being ignorant of God’s law against it and it is another thing for someone to deliberately rebel against God’s law.

Do you think that God’s goal in giving His law was to teach us how to delight in Him and how avoid being crushed by sin or do you think that His goal was to crush us?

No, the truth of what Psalms 19:7-11 is describing is incompatible with the what you are describing. The Psalmists repeatedly said that they loved God’s law and delighted in obeying it, so is we consider the Psalms to be Scripture and to therefore express a correct view of God’s law, the we...