How do I reconcile obscure texts? I compare their weight with the rest of Scripture in the OT and the NT, I do not based my conclusions on NT texts only. Jesus quoted OT texts as the basis of truth in the 1st century, and yet you trump up Paul's writings as the final authority, usurping the most plain words of Jesus himself!
This isn't consistent with your refusal to abide by the sabbath codified in the law ordained at Mount Sinai, which has been pointed out to you several times requires burnt offerings and a Levitical priesthood authorized to perform them. You also ignore the event that ushered in the new covenant, which was the death of the Testator:
Hebrews 9
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.
The allusions you make to what Jesus stated were often in compliance to the first covenant from Mount Sinai. However, you dismiss the promise that Jesus made to fulfill that covenant in Matthew 5:17-18, then called attention to compliance to that covenant in verse 19, and then stated that the most compliant subset of Jewish society didn't have a chance to attain a form of righteousness acceptable to God in their lawkeeping in verse 20.
Matt. 24:35
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
Then perhaps you should consider what Jesus said as recorded in Matthew 17:24-26:
24 ¶ When they had come to Capernaum, those who received the temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?"
25 He said, "Yes." And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?"
26 Peter said to Him, "From strangers." Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free".
Jesus taught Peter a lesson regarding jurisdiction here. The law ordained at Mount Sinai was delivered to the children of Israel, and it was them alone that covenant was binding onto. It was not binding on the King Who is naturally superior to the law He created, and it is not binding on the King's own children. And in case you weren't aware of the Gospel's intention, it was to provide a legal change in whose children we are:
John 1:12-13
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The lesson Jesus taught Peter is completely consistent with Paul wrote in Galatians 4:
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
The covenant from Mount Sinai pertains to the children of Israel during its tenure.
It does not pertain to the children of God.
Matt. 17-19
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
I commented on this above, and even suggested you follow through to verse 20:
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
All you have done is dismiss the intent Jesus stated to fulfill the law, and you rejected His conclusion that feigned compliance to the law isn't going to grant you entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
The righteousness of God was imputed to Abraham by faith, and not by the deeds according to any law.
Romans 4
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
22 And therefore "it was accounted to him for righteousness."
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him,
24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.
This isn't the imputed righteousness Adventism promotes, but rather lipservice (not compliance) to the first covenant from Mount Sinai that doesn't even have jurisdiction over God's adopted children.
Hence, you believe your opinion "trumps" Paul's instruction to cast off the covenant from Mount Sinai - but you didn't realize that you had rejected the Words Jesus spoke while He was here. And, you reject His disposition of the first covenant from Mount Sinai that is presented in Hebrews 10:9: "
He takes away the first that He may establish the second".
The annulment of Israel's covenant with death was promised in Isaiah 28:18, Paul called attention to its end in 2 Corinthians 3:7-13, and the author of Hebrews concluded the old covenant was indeed annulled in Hebrews 7:18-19. With a total of 5 witnesses against you, I can only conclude you have rejected the entire Bible.
