The Torah is Still Binding and We Must Obey It
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Indeed, you have. According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on the Book of the Law is the way to be blessed while not relying on it is the way to be cursed, you should not interpret Galatians 3:10 as quoting from that passage in order to support a point that is arguing against that passage, especially when he considered that passage to be Scripture.
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Look at the 10 Commandments
These sins are found by using the 10 Commandments
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
So the Moral Law seems to be active.
These sins are found by using the 10 Commandments
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
So the Moral Law seems to be active.
Jesus set a prefect example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah, and in Matthew 11:28-30, he was inviting people to come to him for rest and to learn from him, not inviting people to refuse to learn from his example. Moreover, by Jesus saying that we would find rest for our souls, he was referencing Jeremiah 6:16-19, where the Torah is described as the good way where we will find rest for our souls. This rest for our souls comes from having faith in God to correctly guide us in how to rightly live through the Torah. The fact that Jesus gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins should make us want to go and sin no more by living in obedience to the Torah, not consider ourselves free to do the things that God has revealed to be sin through the Torah.
Christ set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 3:4). It should not be strange for some people in a Christian forum to advocate that followers of Christ should follow his example.
Arranged marriages are certainly not the evil that is promoted in Hollywood. Being infatuated with someone clouds our judgement and can cause us to ignore red flags that a 3rd party would not overlook. There are advantages for young people to lean on wisdom of their parents and trust them to make a good choice about whom to marry. There are certainly pros and cons to each.
I think the issue is are Christians still under the law. If we are my neighbor is gonna be missin' her goat tonight and a couple fowl. 
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I’m not missing anything. YOU are still missing the point… badly. You said this:
“ We should follow the Torah to the extent that we are able to obey it and we are not required to obey commands that can't currently be obeyed.”
I quoted Galatians 3:10 which CLEARLY refutes your error. Now instead of admitting that you were dead wrong, you’re sidestepping and changing the subject.
“ We should follow the Torah to the extent that we are able to obey it and we are not required to obey commands that can't currently be obeyed.”
I quoted Galatians 3:10 which CLEARLY refutes your error. Now instead of admitting that you were dead wrong, you’re sidestepping and changing the subject.
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Many of the Jews with whom I've dialogued are fiercly defensive of the
covenant that Moses' people entered into with God per Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy because it defines their ethnic identity, i.e.
taking away the first covenant effectively takes away the one thing that
makes the Jews feel special.
However, their defense is little more than jousting windmills because no one
has been able to practice Moses' convent properly since 70 AD when Titus
destroyed Jerusalem. As a result, the Judaism that most Jews practice today
isn't Moses' Judaism, rather, it's a rabbinical form of Judaism adjusted to
compensate for the Jews' lack of access to the covenant's atonement
system.
Well; unfortunately: God prohibits adjusted versions of the covenant.
● Deut 4:2 . .You shall not add anything to what I command you or take
anything away from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God
that I enjoin upon you.
● Deut 5:29-30 . . Be careful, then, to do as the Lord your God has
commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left: follow only
the path that the Lord your God has enjoined upon you.
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Many of the Jews with whom I've dialogued are fiercly defensive of the
covenant that Moses' people entered into with God per Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, and Deuteronomy because it defines their ethnic identity, i.e.
taking away the first covenant effectively takes away the one thing that
makes the Jews feel special.
However, their defense is little more than jousting windmills because no one
has been able to practice Moses' convent properly since 70 AD when Titus
destroyed Jerusalem. As a result, the Judaism that most Jews practice today
isn't Moses' Judaism, rather, it's a rabbinical form of Judaism adjusted to
compensate for the Jews' lack of access to the covenant's atonement
system.
Well; unfortunately: God prohibits adjusted versions of the covenant.
● Deut 4:2 . .You shall not add anything to what I command you or take
anything away from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God
that I enjoin upon you.
● Deut 5:29-30 . . Be careful, then, to do as the Lord your God has
commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left: follow only
the path that the Lord your God has enjoined upon you.
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Again, there is nothing wrong with not obeying a law that can't currently be obeyed, but that shouldn't stop us from obeying all of the laws that we can obey. Jesus did not obey the laws in regard to having a period or to giving birth, but there is there is no sin or curse in that. According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on God's law is the way to be blessed while not relying on it is the way to be cursed, so the point that Pau was making in Galatians 3:10 should be understood in a way that is in accordance with what he was quoting from to support his point, not a way that contradicts what he was quoting from.
For what it is worth, this was taught to early Christians:
Didache 6:2 For if you are able to bear all the yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able, what you are able that do.
But you demand perfect obedience even to the laws that can't be obeyed and you don't care that your position is absurd.
For what it is worth, this was taught to early Christians:
Didache 6:2 For if you are able to bear all the yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able, what you are able that do.
But you demand perfect obedience even to the laws that can't be obeyed and you don't care that your position is absurd.