In my opinion the law of Mozes only brought dead. If it could bring righteousnes it is very unjust that God send His son to die.
In Deuteronomy 30:15-16 and Romans 10:5, we will obtain life by obeying the Law, in Proverbs 3:18, the Law is a tree of life for all who take hold of her, in Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that if we want to enter into life, then obey the commandments, and yet in Galatians 3:21, Paul said that if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the Law.
The way that I reconcile these verses is by recognizing that faith is the key to everything that is in the Bible. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, so obedience to God's instructions is about having faith in Him to guide us in how to rightly live, which means that obedience to the Law by faith brings life, while outward obedience to the Law apart from faith does not.
It is in insult to the gift of God. It is an insult because God sacrificied His only son for us all, there is no difference anymore between greek and non greek, jew and non jew, Paul speaks of this himself.
In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all Lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so if we believe in what Christ accomplished on the cross, then that should cause us to become zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's Law (Acts 21:20) and should not cause us to insult what he did for us by returning to the Lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from.
Paul also clearly speaks of the fact that the law of Mozes was only there untill Jesus came.
In Luke 16:16, Jesus said that the Law was until John and that since then the Gospel of the Kingdom has been preached, namely to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand. The Mosaic Law is how his audience knew what sin is, so if Jesus was still speaking about the Law being taught after John, then he was not speaking about it ending with him. Furthermore, Jesus went on in verses 17-18 to teach obedience to the Law and to say that it would be easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the least part to disappear from the Law, so he was clearly speaking about an eternal Law that he thought was never going to end, not a Law that he thought had already ended. In addition, neither Jesus nor John taught that the Law had ended so repentance was no longer necessary, but just the opposite, so I don't see a good reason to interpret saying that the Law was until Christ to be speaking about it ending with him.
It was something to teach us the right way, but now that Jesus came, we need to look at Him.
The Law brings us to Christ because it is all about him and how to have a relationship with him based on faith and love. It would make no sense to suggest that the Law brings us to Christ by pointing out our sins, but now that we have found Christ we can go back to doing what the Law revealed to be sin.
We are under Christ law now, which in many cases, it is true, is like the law of Mozes but when love is getting errored by the law of Mozes we do not fullfill the law of Christ anymore. I will explain: we should not lie. But if someone lies and he could not do anything about it, or he feels bad about it then we should not condemn by the law of Mozes but we should forgive by the law of Christ.
The point I am trying to make for days now is still the same, no matter in which direction other posters want to take it and twist my words: We should honor the law of Mozes, but when we condemn others on it, we lack love and then the use of the law goes into the bin. We can then think we are loving others and God, but we are not. I do not mind trying to keep the law yourself and try to be a good person, as long as you do not believe this will save you but I am sure you all know that it does not, but when you use the law, to put burdens on others, to judge and condemn, to point your finger at them and to take a stone, as a figure of speech, to throw at them then I will stand up and say you are doing it all wrong. I never said to sin, I never said to throw the law of Mozes away, I only said: do not judge and condemn others on it. I always pointed to the love.
Which do you do you think is better?:
1.) Someone sees that you are doing something that is wrong and cares enough about you to correct you.
2.) Someone sees that you are doing something that is wrong and is apathetic to you, so they do not correct you.
In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Mosaic Law as being instructions for how to love God and our neighbor, so if God's love does not characterize someone's obedience to God's instructions for how to express His love, then they are not obeying them correctly, so our motivation for correcting others needs to be firmly rooted in love, such as with Galatians 6:1-6. In 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Paul said that all OT Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, training in righteousness, and for being equipped to do every good work, so these are all things that we should be doing out of love.
While it is true that there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ (Romans 8:1), those who are in Christ ought to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:3-6). Jesus was sinless, so he walked in complete obedience to the Mosaic Law and did not hypocritically teach something other than what he practiced. The word "Torah" means "instruction", though it can be appropriately translated as "law" when instructions come with penalties for not obeying them. However, the Torah without condemnation still remains holy, righteous, and good instructions for how to walk in God's ways. God had many purposes for giving His Law, but providing the means of becoming saved was never one of them, so I while I agree that we aren't saved by obeying it, that does not mean that we aren't still obligated to obey it.
What do many of you then think the law of Mozes wanted to achieve? Do you think it wanted to achieve punishment? Do you think it wanted to achieve what it achieved? No, it was a guide, to teach us what was good and how we should love others. The law of Mozes was a law of love. But it did not get used that way, just like I see how it gets used here. Love is above the law. Is the creator not above that which He created? God is love. There for love is above the law.
It wouldn't make sense to say that love is above God's instructions for how to live. The right solution to incorrectly obeying God's Law is to start obeying it correctly with the right focus, not to stop obeying it.
God showed, in my opinion, that love was above the law. He send his only son to die for us. Why did God do that? Why did he not just say: I made a law and its simple: those that hold it will be saved, the others will not be saved. That would be just. Nobody would be able to complain, it would be righteous. But God, in his mercy, showed that there is something that goes above any law. And that was He.
The one and only way that there has ever been to become saved is by grace through faith. In Romans 1:5, we have received grace in order to bring about the obedience that faith requires, so the same grace and faith by which we are saved looks like obedience to God's Law.
In my opinion the law was only there to show us people we needed a saviour. It was only there so we should await the messiah who would save us from ourself. It was only there to make us humble and show that we needed God. We could not follow the law at all, because if you broke one part of it, you had broken the whole law. This was not about all the commandments the jews made, it was about the law of God.
There are many verses that describe the Mosaic Law as being instructions for how to walk in God's ways, such as Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Isaiah 2:2-3, Joshua 22:5, Psalm 103:7, and many others, so the Law was primarily give to teach us how to express God's character traits, such as holiness, righteousness, goodness, justice, mercy, faithfulness, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control. So the character traits of God should characterize our obedience to His instructions found in His Law for how to express them. Pointing out our need for a savior, but stopping short of training us by grace in how to rightly live sells the Law far short of the purpose for which it was given.
In James 2:1-10, he was speaking to people who had already sinned, so he was not telling them that they needed to have perfect obedience because that would have already been too late, and he was not discouraging them from trying to obey it, but rather he was encouraging them to repent and do a better job of obeying it more consistently by not showing favoritism. In Deuteronomy 30:11-14, God said that His Law is not too difficult for us to obey, and I believe Him, do you?
Nobody can fully do the law of God the whole time, those that claim they can should feel in danger, because they literally reject the gift of Christ without them knowing it. Because why do any of us need Christ, if we can hold the law of Mozes? Not the jewish laws, but the law of God. If that would be possible, Jesus did not have to die. If you think it was something God liked to do and had fun in, to see His son be ridiculed, mocked, and hung onto a cross to die, then I think you need to think again. He did it for the love He had for us. He did it because He found it just.
It is only through faith in Christ that we are set free from sin and able to obey the Mosaic Law (Romans 8:3-4).
The law of Mozes was never there to bring life, it only brought dead but the law of Christ makes us born again. We had to be reborn, because we had to get out of the law of Mozes which required us all to die. So we had to die, to get the life that the law of Christ brought. Now that we have died and are under the law of Christ, we are not under the law of Mozes anymore because we died. We can not die to times. Jesus took our sins upon us and send the Holy Spirit, so we could die and be reborn. We had to die, the law required it because the reward of the law of Mozes was dead. God does not change his ways, but he finds solutions.
Being born again is about dying to living a life in transgression of God's Law and rising again to a life of obedience. God has always had just one plan to redeem the world that has been revealed throughout the Bible. If God does not change His ways, then He does not change His instructions for how to walk in His ways, so the Mosaic Law is therefore still the same.
Once again: we should hold the law of Mozes and try to do our best to not sin against it, but when you see someone else sin we should not judge and condemn. This is bad for both parties. The one that judges gets himself in danger of judgment himself and the one that gets judged and condemned will get burdens onto himself and will sometimes even lose faith because he believes he is not good enough. He will not be able to have faith in the fact that he is saved. I had that problem myself: I was very hard on myself for many years. Not on others, but on myself. It resulted that I only could believe that others were saved. I could not believe I was saved. It resulted in me hating my brothers and sisters, how stupid they were. It made me bitter and frustrated. But then I suddenly felt the love of God for me and during that period, that only lasted one night, I could not think about anything else then love. I could not speak about anything else then love. I had a smile on my face the whole time. I fell on the ground with my head against the ground, begging God to feel like that forever. I could only love.
You have to understand what for a person I was: I became mad at fellow christians, I insulted them, I acted like an [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]. But when I felt the love of God, all of that was gone. And there was only two things inside me: love and peace.
It changed me a lot. God changed me. He rescued me from the law of Mozes and brought me under the law of Christ. He made me die and created a new being. I am not who I was anymore, I am something new. I am under the law of Christ now and I will rather be mercifull then to point out sins in others. I rather will pray to God, if I think it is needed, to ask for forgivenis for them then to point the sin out. I am not that person anymore and to be honest, I rather do not want to be that person anymore.
Praise God that he got ahold of you with His love!