Gal 3Hebrews 7:12 says the Law has changed. So you have to look at the 613 Laws of Moses as being one contract given to Israel, and the laws (or commands) given to us by Jesus and His followers (in the New Covenant) is another contract. For Romans 7:6 says, "we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."
Think of a covenant like when a person may buy a house. They are offered a contract for buying that house. But if that person does not like the contract in certain places, they may request to have the contract changed. If the seller and real estate agent agree to the changes, they will draw up a new contract (with the new changes) so as sell the house to him. For this guy who is buying the house, his idea of the purchase (according to the new contract) is more fulfilled and complete to his liking. So what do they do with the old contract? They discard it. Entirely? No. The new contract may have repeated many things in the old contract, but the new contract has changes in it that fulfill a better purpose or desire for the buyer.
The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise. What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator. A mediator, however, does not represent just one party; but God is one. Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe. Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
In contrast to that you believe in justification by law. Not by the law of Moses, but by a law you tinker together containing much of the law of Moses. It's the same thing. You miss the concept. In Genesis 15:5 God gave Abraham a promise. In Gen 15:6 Abraham believed the promise, there being no intervening work on Abraham's part between Gen 15:5 and Gen 15:6 and thus Paul uses that fact in Romans 4 to prove that justification is by faith apart from works - yes even apart from works of faith.
In you unbelief you simply modify this covenant of faith by adding your own law to it and claiming that while one must comply to your law in order to be save. The only difference between you and the sect of the Circumcision is which set of regulations you're talking about.
Do you even live up to the standards of your "law"? How many times have you lost your salvation failing to live up to your "law? Or does your law simply have low enough standards that you never fail to do it perfectly? Or do you simply overlook, feigning ignorance about how you have fallen short of your "law". If you law says that you must love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strengthen, have there been instances in your life where you gave 90% effort? Or is that not part of your "law"?
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