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That's certainly not what I'm saying. I'm simply (apparently) disagreeing with your understanding of how that's done.

That's not the entire picture. With circumcision came the responsibility to live under and do the law of Moses. That is the yoke that Peter said in the council Israel was unable to bear.

I don't see what you said. It says he created darkness and light, not that he is darkness and light.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" is not the law of Moses; it is one commandment in that body of law. Christ summarized the entire law in that one command and made it his law. Again, that command is not the law of Moses.

You're trying to protect a sense of superiority by not being forthright. Perhaps that's because you don't really have what you think you have ( and thereby can't articulate it), or you are afraid that it won't stand up against my witness (thereby threatening your sense of exalted position).

That's a myth that they only had the OT. They had the teachings of Christ and his apostles. We have a more complete witness, but they all had virtually everything that Christ and the 12 apostles taught, and Paul's teachings to some extent. Things were done orally to a large degree then.

Like I said, I think trying to make points by asking questions is ineffective and counterproductive. I have no idea what point you're trying to make. I'm not a mind reader.

Paul was speaking rhetorically regarding those who were under the law of Moses and gloried in it to make the point that the law was only beneficial to them if they actually did the law. There is no law against love and faith because that is Christ's law that supersedes and subsumes the law of Moses.

I have no idea what you're trying to say. There seems to be an epidemic of people trying to make points by asking questions. It rarely works.

I have looked for that verse and can't find it.

He said that to someone who was under the old covenant. Christ also told the man that if he wanted to be perfect to follow him, not Moses.

One can not love as Jesus loved without knowing GOD (your so-called power commandments)

Those who try to be justified in GOD's sight by keeping the law of Moses are in constant violation of the law and living in continual sin.

I thought the Catholic church teaches that the 10 commandments have to be followed.

The law of Moses can't convict us of sin. It can only be a witness for what constitutes right and wrong behavior. That's why the verse above says that the law admonishes (ἐλέγχω) for being transgressors of GOD's law. G1651 ἐλέγχω elegcho (el-eng'-kho) v. 1. to confute, admonish

I don't trouble them. They can do what they want.

We won't be judged by the law of Moses, so apart from instructional purposes it is irrelevant.

You've poisoned the well from the start. You've defined those who love GOD as those who abide by the law (of Moses, I presume), and implied that works of faith are vain works.

Silly sophistry. Darkness is the absence of visible light, and that's the only relevant meaning in that biblical context. It takes a spiritual mind to discern that the separation of light and dark is used as a metaphor for the separation of good and evil. For some reason you are fascinated with...

I would say that 90% of professing Calvinists either openly or secretly or in some sneaky way take some credit for not taking credit for their supposed salvation.