That is what this thread is trying to thresh out, what is legalism and what is obedience. Legalism is obedience without the spirit of the Lord, without any love. We can be obedient without special diet for example, but I don't think we can be obedient and refuse a time of worship assigned to us like the feasts. And like someone pointed out, I am all alone in that thought.
There has got to be reasons for the beliefs that I am wrong and scripture to back it up. I have reason and scripture to back it for what I think is true. But then that is swept aside under the idea that it is not true that God means us as well as Jews in much of what God says and does. So almost half of scripture is tossed based on that.
It seems to me all scripture is so powerful and true, it is like tossing out jewels.
That was an interesting part of our history. Gentiles were attracted to God and wanted to join the Jews, many did. After a short time, a lot of them decided not to give up their parties and such, but invited the Jews to join them and lots of Jews did. The Jewish leaders (Hillel and Shammai) decided to do something to stop that, they made up 18 rules the gentiles had to follow to join them, with diet and circumcision two of them. We have documents telling us of the list but no copy of the list. The people all had an opinion about it, everyone discussed "the law of Moses". Our scriptures sometimes speaks of the law of Moses as the actually law from God and other times of the law of Moses as the law that local gossip spoke of.
And that is what this thread is about, what should be included and what treated as we treat fleshly circumcision?