It makes sense because you always read things that are not there into what is stated. You do the same with Scripture, making prescriptive texts descriptive, and vice versa. It's neo-judaism with a weird spin - Galatians 1:8-10 like.
p4t - Before you start putting words like weird spin, you need to establish whether the perspective
you think I am using is the same as the one I am using. Without this we are talking at cross
purposes. Because much of scripture is interpretative one has to build the whole in the mind
of the other, because you start calling it something.
I would argue that taking someone elses righteousness as the reason why a sinful act is
forgiven when the person themselves does not agree, makes no sense. It is the equivalent
of saying sin does not matter or its effects, it can just be forgiven. If this was true then
judgement itself is undermined. Either one is consistent and the causes dealt with or it
is arbitary and not just.
The argument for washing something clean so it stays clean makes sense.
If you enable something to have the privilege of cleanliness but never achieving it, that
is just an illusion. If you listen to Christ his whole message is you will be like me, full of
love and following my will and commandments.
Now I am happy to say the way the commandments are expressed has changed, but
not their precepts. If is why the Law of moses does not apply but the Law of Christ and
we are slaves to righteousness. What we often fail to comprehend is daily life was bound
by religious ordinances, in dress, behaviour, cleansing, purity, sacrifices, sabbaths, where
little was not bounded by restrictions. How could one survive in the artic with sabbath
restrictions, you would freeze to death very quickly.