The Torah is Still Binding and We Must Obey It
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In Romans 10:5-8, it quotes Deuteronomy 30:11-16 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to saying that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult to obey, so it was not given to show us that we can never measure up. Likewise, in 1 John 5:3, to love God is to obey His commandments, which are not burdensome. It is contradictory to obey God's law apart from Jesus. In Exodus 20:6, God wanted His people to love Him and obey His commandments, so obedience to God has always been a matter of the heart and God has always disdained it when His people honored Him with their lips while their hearts were far from Him (Isaiah 29:13). Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and it is by the Torah that we have knowledge of what sin is (Romans 3:20), so living in obedience to the Torah is intrinsically the content of the gift of Jesus saving us from not living in obedience it.
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It’s important to understand that we are talking about trusting God when we’ve done everything we know to do and still need an answer. There is no “law” or ritual or intellectual schematic that would’ve saved the Israelites from Pharoah’s army at the Red Sea. They were completely walked in with only one way to go, i.e into the sea (nowhere). They had to simply trust God. The was the “whole” of their law. God initially gave the “law” to the unbelievers.
God is trustworthy, therefore His instructions are also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to trust in God is by obediently trusting in His instructions and it is contradictory for someone to think that we should trust in God for salvation, but not in His instructions. In Proverbs 3:5-7, we have a choice between leaning on our own understanding of right and wrong by doing what is right in our own eyes or trusting in God with all of our heart by obeying His instructions in all of our ways and he will make our way straight, so that is what it means to have faith in God.
A Christian is by definition a follower of Christ. So is it your position that the way to follow Christ is by refusing to follow what he taught in Matthew? In Matthew 28:16-20, Jesus commissioned his disciples to make disciples of all nations, teaching everything that he taught them, so that doesn't leave room for followers of Christ to refuse to follow what he taught in Matthew. Jesus didn't establish the New Covenant for the purpose of undermining anything that he spent his ministry teaching, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Mosaic Law (Jeremiah 31:33).
The Mosaic Law is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), so it is the law where holiness, righteousness, and goodness have dominion over us, however, the law of sin stirs up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death, so it is the law where sin had dominion over us, and Romans 6:14 describes the law that we are not under as being the law where sin had dominion over us, so he was referring to the law of sin, not to the Law of Moses. In Romans 6:15, being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 3:20, it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of what sin is, so we are still under the Mosaic Law, but are not under the law of sin. In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, so that is what it means to be under grace.
Moreover, everything else in Romans 6 speaks in favor of obedience to God and against sin. For example in Romans 6:16-23, we are slaves to the one whose we obey either of sin which leads to death or to obedience, which leads to righteousness, we have been set free from sin in order to become slaves of righteousness, we should no longer present ourselves as slave to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but should now present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God. So to reject being under God's law is to reject the content of God's gift of eternal life in Christ.
Again, Paul said that he wanted to do good, but spoke against the law of sin that was controlling him and causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do. In Romans 7:22-23, Paul delighted in obeying the Law of God, but contrasted that with the law of sin that held him captive, and Romans 7:6 says that we have been released from a law that held us captive, so he was referring to being released from the law of sin. We need to die to the law of sin in order to be free to obey the Law of God, not the other way around.
The Mosaic Law is God's word and Jesus is God's word made flesh, so why does it make sense to you to think that we are denying Christ by obeying God's word? Would it make more sense. to think that the way to deny Christ is by refusing to obey God's word? Christ set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so why does it make sense to you to think that the way to deny Christ is by following his example instead of by refusing to follow him?[/QUOTE]
Clearly, you do not understand the New Covenant. If people, including Christians, are still under the OT law, then Jesus Christ died for nothing!
The Mosaic Law is holy, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12), so it is the law where holiness, righteousness, and goodness have dominion over us, however, the law of sin stirs up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death, so it is the law where sin had dominion over us, and Romans 6:14 describes the law that we are not under as being the law where sin had dominion over us, so he was referring to the law of sin, not to the Law of Moses. In Romans 6:15, being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 3:20, it is by the Mosaic Law that we have knowledge of what sin is, so we are still under the Mosaic Law, but are not under the law of sin. In Psalms 119:29, he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, so that is what it means to be under grace.
Moreover, everything else in Romans 6 speaks in favor of obedience to God and against sin. For example in Romans 6:16-23, we are slaves to the one whose we obey either of sin which leads to death or to obedience, which leads to righteousness, we have been set free from sin in order to become slaves of righteousness, we should no longer present ourselves as slave to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but should now present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God. So to reject being under God's law is to reject the content of God's gift of eternal life in Christ.
Again, Paul said that he wanted to do good, but spoke against the law of sin that was controlling him and causing him not to do the good that he wanted to do. In Romans 7:22-23, Paul delighted in obeying the Law of God, but contrasted that with the law of sin that held him captive, and Romans 7:6 says that we have been released from a law that held us captive, so he was referring to being released from the law of sin. We need to die to the law of sin in order to be free to obey the Law of God, not the other way around.
The Mosaic Law is God's word and Jesus is God's word made flesh, so why does it make sense to you to think that we are denying Christ by obeying God's word? Would it make more sense. to think that the way to deny Christ is by refusing to obey God's word? Christ set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so why does it make sense to you to think that the way to deny Christ is by following his example instead of by refusing to follow him?[/QUOTE]
Clearly, you do not understand the New Covenant. If people, including Christians, are still under the OT law, then Jesus Christ died for nothing!
What about Romans 10:4??? "For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes."
I feel sorry for you! You have missed the basic truth of Christianity. Read this verse carefully and pay attention to exactly what it says...
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God. Romans 7:4
Give it up Soyeong!!! You are wrong about the law and Christians.
I feel sorry for you! You have missed the basic truth of Christianity. Read this verse carefully and pay attention to exactly what it says...
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God. Romans 7:4
Give it up Soyeong!!! You are wrong about the law and Christians.
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In Jeremiah 31:33, it says that the New. Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts. In Titus 2:14, it does say that Jesus gave himself to free us from the Torah, but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Torah is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross while returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from is the way to say that he died for nothing. Our salvation is from sin, which is the transgression of the Torah (Romans 3:20), so the position that Jesus did away with the Mosaic Law is the position that he did away with our salvation.