08/09/2026
When We Let All of Scripture Speak
There is something I believe we need to be willing to talk about honestly within Christianity.
What if the problem isn't God's Law, but the way we have been taught to read Scripture?
I am not interested in attacking people who have been taught that God's Law is bo***ge or that Christ abolished it.
I am interested in doing something much more important:
Opening Scripture and asking what YHWH actually said.
Because Scripture is not supposed to be interpreted by isolating a handful of verses and building an entire doctrine around them while ignoring everything else Scripture says on the subject.
We are supposed to allow Scripture to interpret Scripture.
And when we do that, we encounter something very different from the idea that God's Law is bo***ge and obedience is no longer necessary.
Yahushua Himself said:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” — Matthew 5:17
Then He continued:
“For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.” — Matthew 5:18
Heaven and earth are still here.
And Yahushua did not stop there.
He warned against relaxing even the least of the commandments and teaching others to do the same (Matthew 5:19).
So if someone tells us that Christ came to abolish God's Law, we have to ask:
Does that interpretation agree with what Christ Himself said?
Then Yahushua says:
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” — Luke 6:46
Again, obedience.
Not obedience as a payment for salvation.
Obedience as the response of someone who actually recognizes Him as Lord.
Then look at Paul.
Paul is often presented as though he taught that God's Law was abolished and therefore obedience no longer matters.
But Paul himself says:
“So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.” — Romans 7:12
He says:
“Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.”
— Romans 3:31
And when Paul says believers are not “under law” but “under grace,” what does he immediately say when someone tries to turn that into permission to sin?
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!”
— Romans 6:15
Paul does not use grace as permission for lawlessness.
He rejects that conclusion.
And John gives us another definition that is extremely difficult to reconcile with a lawless gospel:
“Sin is lawlessness.”
— 1 John 3:4
The Greek word is anomia—lawlessness.
So if sin is lawlessness, why would the answer to sin be to eliminate God's Law?
That should make us stop and think.
Then consider the New Covenant promise.
Jeremiah 31:33 says:
“I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.”
Notice what YHWH says.
He does not say:
“I will abolish My Law.”
He says:
“I will write My Law on their hearts.”
The New Covenant does not present God's instruction as something that disappears.
It presents His Law as something that moves from being externally written to being internally written.
And that brings us back to obedience.
We are not saved because we obey enough.
We do not earn salvation through works.
But genuine faith is not fruitless.
Yahushua said:
“You will recognize them by their fruits.” — Matthew 7:16
He also said:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
— Matthew 7:21
James says:
“Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
— James 2:17
And Yahushua describes Himself as the vine and His followers as branches. A living branch bears fruit. A branch that continually produces no fruit is not presented as evidence of healthy life (John 15:1–6).
The fruit does not purchase salvation.
The fruit reveals life.
That distinction matters.
Legalism says:
“I obey God's commandments so I can earn salvation.”
Biblical obedience says:
“Because I belong to YHWH, because I love Him, because I trust Him, and because I have been transformed by His grace, I desire to walk according to His Word.”
Those are not the same thing.
And correcting a false teaching is not hatred.
Scripture actually commands correction.
Paul tells Timothy:
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”
> — 2 Timothy 4:2
He also says that an overseer must be able to “give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it”(Titus 1:9).
Why?
Because false teaching matters.
What we believe about YHWH, His Word, sin, obedience, grace, and salvation affects how we live.
Correction becomes wrong when it is done with pride, cruelty, humiliation, or a desire to destroy someone.
But correction done in truth, love, humility, patience, and concern for someone's spiritual well-being is not an attack.
Sometimes love says:
“I care about you too much to let you continue believing something Scripture does not actually teach.”
Yahushua corrected people.
The apostles corrected people.
The prophets corrected people.
Scripture repeatedly calls God's people back to truth.
So this isn't about attacking Christianity.
It is about asking Christianity to return to Scripture
Not isolated verses.
Not denominational traditions.
Not popular interpretations.
Not what we were told Paul meant.
Not what makes obedience more comfortable.
The whole counsel of Scripture.
If one interpretation requires us to ignore Yahushua's words, redefine Paul's words without considering Paul's other statements, disregard the prophets, overlook the New Covenant promise, and minimize what James and John teach about obedience and lawlessness, then perhaps the problem isn't Scripture.
Perhaps the problem is the interpretation.
So let's stop asking:
“Which verse can I use to prove my position?”
And start asking:
“What does the entirety of Scripture actually teach?”
Because our allegiance is not to a doctrine we inherited.
Our allegiance is to YHWH and His Word.
And if we continue to blindly follow a particular church brand without questioning and looking at the entirety of God's word on a matter, we risk being carried away by the very false doctrines and teachings that Scripture repeatedly warns us about.
This lawless doctrine is one of them. It is directly against what Christ Himself explicitly said and modeled. It conflicts and twists Pauls words to mean something they do not. It ignores what James, John, Peter, ect also said. Scripture does not conflict with scripture! So that is the first clue that reveals that God's laws and obedience to them is NOT legalism. The excuse that uses that to justify not following God's laws, is false and not what Paul or Scripture as a whole says. It is used to justify continuing to live in disobedience.
So if His Word corrects something we have believed, then the faithful response isn't to defend the belief.
It's to change.
