Hmm, we must have a different understanding. I personally would never spend my time arguing against something I am really for. If this is the case for you, I will probably move on after this post, because it’s not a good way to spend my time.
Agreed no one earns salvation by keeping any law. The law is kept as a result of ones heart being changed by Christ and keeping God’s commandments are a consequence of salvation, not a means to it. Rev 14:12 Why God’s laws are perfect for converting the soul Psa19:7 its obeying by faith that saves, the action is a consequence of that faith, and shows if our faith is genuine or not.
“Keeping the Law” means different things to different people. Some think it refers only to the Ten Commandments, while others believe it includes the immediate commands of the Holy Spirit and is therefore much broader than the Ten Commandments. But the fact remains that for the born-again believer, sin is no longer primarily about the Law—it is about a Person: Jesus Christ.
Scripture plainly teaches that believers in Christ are no longer under the Law as a covenant or as a means of righteousness before God. Paul states directly, “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:14), and again, “If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law” (Galatians 5:18). To be “under the Law” is to be under its condemnation and jurisdiction as the system that determines one’s standing before God. That entire system has been replaced.
The Law was given for a temporary purpose—to point forward to Christ. Paul explains, “The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ… but after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor” (Galatians 3:24–25). Christ is the fulfillment and goal of the Law, for “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4). Once the promised Savior arrived, the tutor’s role was complete.
In our union with Christ, believers have died to the Law’s authority. “You also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ… that you may be married to another” (Romans 7:4). A death changes legal jurisdiction—just as the law of marriage no longer governs a widow, so the Law of Moses no longer governs those joined to Christ by faith.
Because of this, righteousness no longer comes through law-keeping but through Jesus Christ alone. Paul insists that we “are not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16), and warns that if righteousness were still attainable through the Law, “then Christ died in vain” (Galatians 2:21). The cross nullifies any attempt to earn acceptance before God through commandments.
This transition from Law to Christ reflects the major shift in redemptive history—the new covenant has replaced the old. Hebrews 8:13 says that by establishing a “new covenant,” Christ has made the first “obsolete.” Hebrews 10:9 adds, “He takes away the first that He may establish the second.” The covenantal system in which the Law operated has been decisively superseded by the work and authority of Christ.
Therefore, Christians do not live lawlessly—we live under a new and better authority: the law of Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit. “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). As we bear one another’s burdens, we “fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). The Spirit writes God’s moral will on our hearts and empowers what the old covenant could only demand externally.
Sin still exists, because at its root sin is rebellion against God’s authority. But Jesus Christ takes us beyond mere law-keeping into true holiness—holiness not measured by the Law but by God Himself. He leads us not into a life obsessed with rules, but into a life transformed by His presence, reflecting His character, and empowered by His grace.
Agreed, but no one is keeping the spiritual aspect of the law by breaking the actual law itself. As Jesus demonstrated from the Ten Commandments Mat5:19-30
One can't break what they are no longer under. What we are under is greater than the law. Looking at the law all the time means we are not looking at Christ the real author and finisher of our faith.
Its not our standards that matters it God’s standards. Showing what God’s Word says (His standards) is not judging. Its hoping one would consider His word.
God is not a bean counter that holds us up to His standard. God is our good father. If you have kids, do you put yur standard above them? He is not one who says love me or else I will kill you, He is a father calling the spiritually dead back to life. If they refuse He will not force them.
Christ came to reveal the Father to us, something the law can only dimmly filicker at. We have the law giver now instead of the law.
Again, we should look to God’s standards not ours on how to keep the Sabbath, the Sabbath commandment did not go undefined by God. Exo20:8-11 Isa58:13 Lev 23:3 as its been pointed out a few times now.
It does not address some of our modern life styles. For instance, do you purchase electricity on the sabbath? If use any type of electricity, then you do. Do you run your furnace in the winter at your house? You are violating the 4th commandment if you do. We could go on but as you can see it is not as easy as one would think unless they thought that they had it right and everyne elsehad it wrong.
There is not two ways to practice the law. God never gave us the Ten Commandments and said now you pick the ones you wish to practice, they were never called the Ten recommendations or the Ten suggestions. A commandment is just that. And by faith we should obey even if it doesn’t always make sense to us, but trust God has a perfect plan and knows what He is doing.
Do you have picture or sculptures in your house. That is violating the 2 command. You might say that that is way too petty--well there you go interpreting how you're going to keep the law. Thou shall not kill. What about mice, or mosquitoes? If you say those are Ok to kill, then you have interpreted the law in a way that makes sense to you.
You are referring to the Pharisees who were not keeping God’s Sabbath, their were keeping their own manmade sabbath that sadly man does today , they just apply it to a different day that God never sanctified for holy use, but said it was for works and labors. Exo 20:9
And you think that this is not possible even in this day in age. Examine your own feelings. Do you feel more knowledgeable, more obedient, mor righteous than a person who keeps Sunday? If you don't, if you actually feel shoulder to shoulder with your fellow sunday keeping christians, then why spend time critiquing their law keeping?
The pharasees felt that they were just as good if not better at keeping the law than you or I. So, what is the difference? What makes your sabbath keeping superior to theirs?
I think we need to get back to God’s standards of righteousness Psa 119:172 Isa 56:1-2 as His is everlasting Psa 119:142 and not fall back on depending on our own version of what is right or wrong.
You can't help it. No human can. We all are prone to think that we have it right and those who see it differently have it wrong. But the bible says that we each fall or rise to our owmn master.
Our righteousness (version of right or wrong) is as filthy rags. It’s best to let God be God and serve and obey Him, the way He said through love and faith.
Even then it is still like filthy rags. What we need is Christ's righteousness which takes us beyond the mere keeping of the Ten Commandments to fellowship With Christ as our elder brother and God Almaighty as our Loving Father.
