Five Views on Law and Gospel Quotes

“This discussion indicates that the stipulations of God’s moral law, whether known through Mosaic (written) ordinances or by general (unwritten) revelation, carry a universal and “natural” obligation that is appropriate to the Creator-creature relationship, apart from any question of redemption. Their validity is by no means restricted to the Jews in a particular time period. What the law speaks, it speaks in order that “the whole world [may be] held accountable to God” (3:19). God is no respecter of persons here. “All have sinned” (3:23), which means they have violated the law of God, that common standard of moral integrity for everyone (3:”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Five Views on Law and Gospel

“The old covenant administration of law (or the Mosaic administration itself) did not offer a way of salvation or teach a message of justification that differs from the one found in the gospel of the new covenant. Recognizing that in God’s sight no one could be justified (Ps. 143:2), the old covenant promised justification grounded in “the LORD Our Righteousness” (Jer. 23:6). The old covenant witness was that righteousness had to be imputed, even to the great father of the Jews, Abraham (Gen. 15:6; cf. Rom. 4:3; Gal. 3:6). Accordingly, the literature of the Old Testament provides abundant evidence that God’s saints were people of faith (cf. Heb. 11). Paul came to understand very clearly that the old covenant itself taught that the just shall live by faith (Hab. 2:4; cf. Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11). Isaiah the prophet proclaimed: “In the LORD all the descendants of Israel will be found righteous” (Isa. 45:25); and later, “This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me, declares the LORD” (54:17).”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Five Views on Law and Gospel

“John Gerstner similarly observes, “Christ’s affirmation of the moral law was complete. Rather than setting His disciples free from the law, He tied them more tightly to it. He abrogated not one commandment but instead intensified all.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Five Views on Law and Gospel