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    Quoting Deuteronomy

    Christ quoted from Deuteronomy three times in order to defeat the temptations from Satan, which included saying that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God, so he affirmed Deuteronomy and every word that has come from the mouth of God as being...
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    Deuteronomy 8:3

    Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. To interpret the NT as speaking...
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    The Way that God is Giving Us His Gift of Salvation

    Our obedience to God's law has never been about trying to earn our salvation from God, but rather God graciously teaching us to be a doer of His law is the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation. Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1...
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    Works and Salvation

    There is a sense of works that we are required to have done first in order to earn something as a wage that is different from the sense of works that are intrinsically required to have the experience of doing something. For example, there is a difference between work that someone is required to...
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    Following Truth

    Psalms 119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Law is truth. Are you in favor of following truth or not? Why or why not?
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    Character Traits

    To become a character trait means to be someone who practices that trait and it would be contradictory to for someone to become a character trait apart from becoming someone who practices that trait. We become character traits through faith that we ought to practice them apart from having...
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    Embodying Truth

    The way to have faith is by embodying truth, the Torah is truth (Psalms 119:142) and Jesus embodied truth by living in sinless obedience to the Torah (John 14:6).
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    General Bible Knowledge Within the Church

    How well do you think the people at your congregation are versed in the Bible beyond the traditional stories that are commonly taught to kids?
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    Earning a Wage From God

    It seems silly to me for someone to think that there is anything that we can do to earn a wage from God or to think that God gave commands to His people in for the goal of showing us that we can't earn anything from Him by obeying them. It is not as though God has said anything like that if...
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    Determining the Greatest Commandment

    Out of all of the commandments in the OT, how can we determine which is the greatest commandment to which all of the others are subordinate without relying on what Jesus said on the topic? For example, are there commands such as those against murder, sexual immorality, and idolatry that we...
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    We Must Obey God Rather than Man

    If we read what man has written and think that they were speaking against obeying what God has commanded, then we have three options: (1) Think that we have correctly understood them, that what they said is false, and that what they said is not Scripture. (2) Think that we have correctly...
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    Salvation Experience

    To use an analogy, Dan is going to get married and his friend George is a marriage counselor who gives him a gift of a book containing instructions for how to have a good marriage. Dan is going have a different marriage experience if he trusts George by following his instructions than if he...
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    Didache 6:2

    Didache 6:2 If you can bear the Lord's full yoke, you will be perfect. But if you cannot, then do what you can. The Didache was taught to early Christian believers and even though it was not canonized as Scripture, that does not necessarily mean anything that it says is wrong. The Bible does...
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    Salvation by God's Word vs. God's Word Made Flesh

    Jesus is God's word made flesh (John 1:14), or in other words, he is the embodiment of God word, so salvation through us embodying God's word through faith is the same as salvation through faith in the one who is the embodiment of God's word. In other words, the way to have faith in God with...
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    Romans 10:5-8

    Why did Paul write the verses in Romans 10:5-8 in that spot? In other words, how is referencing Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim relevant to what he said in Romans 9:30-10:4, to Romans 10:9-10, and to the rest of Romans 10?
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    Misunderstanding the Bible

    When should someone who is reading a verse from the Bible conclude that they have must have misunderstood it, or if they have correctly understood it, then when should they conclude that they should not accept its validity? For example, someone could read that Psalms 14:1 states "there is no...
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    Acting in Accordance with God's Nature.

    Does the Mosaic Law teach how to act in accordance with the nature of the God of Israel? For example, does it teach how to be holy as God is holy? Should we act accordance with the nature of the God of Israel? For example, our good works testify about God's goodness, which is why they give...
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    Works are Intrinsic to Salvation

    The Bible is abundantly clear that our salvation is not the result of having done works, such as in Romans 4:1-5, where it denies that we can earn our justification as a wage. This has led some to think that works are instead the result of our salvation, to think that the problem is that we...
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    The Way to Have Faith Alone

    I want to discuss two ideas about what it means to have faith alone: #1 The way to have faith alone in God for our salvation involves choosing to obediently relying on His instructions. #2 If our salvation requires us to do anything, then it is not faith in God alone, or in other words, we...
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    Jump to Beginning

    When accessing this site using an iPhone and I clicking on a thread, it sometimes does not take me to first post of that thread, though that sometimes happens with my pc too. The issue with using my iPhone is that at the top it gives me the options to jump to the latest, follow, reply, or jump...
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