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Of keeping the Law

Wherein doth the perfect keeping of God's law consist?  A. It consists in the perfect and constant Conformity of the internal and external Actions of Heart and Life, to every Command of God, Gal 3:10 -- Cursed is every one that continueth not in all Things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them, Matt 22:37-39 Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all Thy Soul, and with all Thy Mind.  This is the first and great Commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thyself.

Hence our need for Jesus.

Interesting quote from Greg Bahnsen's Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, ed. by Joel McDurmon (Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision Press and Nacogdoches, Texas: Covenant Media Press, 2008), p.156-157.

[O]ur reaction to God's Word is a reaction to God Himself.  The Bible is not mere human words that happen to be true and consistent; rather, it is God's own words conveyed in human speech.  The Bible does not point or witness to God, it is the very Word of God.  Hence one does not test Scripture as to its reliability as a human word and then pass on to the judgment that God must be behind it; the human and divine character of the Bible cannot be separated.  There is a christological parallel here; one can never consider the humanity of Christ in abstraction from His divinity.  So our response to the carpenter of Nazareth should be our response to God Himself.  And our response to the words on the ink-printed paper pages of the Bible should always be our response to a direct address of God to us; in reacting to God's speech we are reacting to the very person of God.

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Our response to the Scripture, then, is the measure of our response to God (e.g., John 14:23f.; 8:47; 10:27).  When we call the Bible into question, we call God into question.