If you have Rest in Christ and you DON'T work at the law you are going to get accused of teaching against the law, even though Christianity is NOT against the Law of Moses.
Acts 24:14-16
14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.
Legalists will still accuse. Even though they themselves are hypocrites.
I suppose reading the bible and believing what it says plays an important role as well.
Have you ever tried to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is Perfect? Matt 5:48
Have you tried to do everything that is in Matthew 5? Not have anger in your heart, not lust after a woman, etc...
Once you try and find out you are not able do you just quit? Or do you just keep going not realizing you can't do it? Do you think you CAN do it? No, I don't think you would be able to convince anyone that you can.
So then I suppose you have two choices at this point. Continue in your failed philosophy of following law and ALWAYS failing.
Or coming to Christ to receive Rest.
Coming to Christ is better. It has the added benefits of Salvation, Righteousness, Wisdom, Redemption, Sanctification, Love, Joy, Peace, Faith and many other good things that I don't even understand yet. Resting in Christ also gives us the extra benefit of actually Keeping the Law in a way that we never could by our own work and our own understanding.
There is NO REASON to turn away from all this that we have in Christ to go back to our work and understanding of the law. Because our work and understanding of the law can NEVER give us what Christ gives us. And it doesn't keep what it is working at anyway...
Mmmm… NO.
Resting in Christ, He who Strengthens us, is how we are able to Keep the Law.
Not by our own strength or our own understanding.
Old things are passed away. Such as working for your own Righteousness. Such as working for your own Salvation. Such as working for your own Sanctification. Such as working for your White Raiment.
I say no such thing.
All I say is that you must turn away from your own work in order to turn to Christ and be IN Christ.
You can't simultaneously work at the law and receive rest from it. You can't be simultaneously alive to the law and what it says and dead to the law and what it says.
I suppose you are stuck in your circular reasoning and the only way out is to come to Christ.
I thought I showed you that Rest in Christ is better than your work at the law. But somehow you can't see.
Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’” So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. Romans 14:4-13
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:16-26
As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 Corinthians 6:1
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 1 Corinthians 3:9
Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” John 5:17 Ephesians 3:7
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Ephesians 3:7
It's kind off odd and funny how you can say that Christianity is not against the law of Moses on one side while saying on the other side that it is a "failed philosophy of following law".
Who is going on circles and twistings like a roller coaster?
We are told to Rest in Christ and not to slumber in Christ.
Servants and fellow workers of God do not stop working but they have rested from their own efforts and desires, and now lives according to the spirit. They are walking as Jesus did when He walked in Love while He was on this earth. He walked in obedience to His Father's commands to set us an example, that we should follow in His steps.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. Hebrews 5:7-9
...I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
John 4:34-38
Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things. 1 Peter 1:10-12