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God’s law = the law of Moses, the law of Yahweh
Jewish law = the traditions of the elders talked about in the NT, now called the Talmud and Mishnah
you are conflating the 2.
I'm talking about the laws written in Exodus and Leviticus, where the Lord says "these are the regulations for the sin offering .....", Leviticus 6:25; "you must not wear clothes of mixed fibres", Leviticus 19:19 etc. Also in those laws are instructions about skin diseases and being unclean, Leviticus 13:1-46. Unclean people were to be in isolation, and anyone who touched them, or the things they had touched, were unclean.
God’s law is not Jewish law.
following Messiah would include obedience to God’s law
Presumably God's law would include instructions written in Leviticus about standing up for elders, Leviticus 19:32, not cutting the hair at the sides of your head or trimming your beard, Leviticus 19:27, not sleeping with a woman at a certain time of the month but waiting until she is "clean", (for which she has to offer sacrifices), Leviticus 18:19.
Following someone biblically means that you live like them.
So you wear robes and sandals, speak Aramaic and go around raising the dead?
Where are we told that people in the west have to follow the customs and traditions of 1st century Jews?
Following Jesus means following his teachings, believing them and putting them into practice.
Jesus told his disciples to go to the ends of the earth, baptise and teach them everything he had commanded them (ie his disciples). He did not command his disciples to keep all the rules in Leviticus, nor tell them to teach them, and circumcision, to others.
Paul taught us to follow him as he follows Messiah - in other words, live like him as he lives like Messiah
Presumably you are an itinerant preacher and tent maker, then?
Paul was upset with any who taught circumcision or that the law saves.
You follow someone by emulating, and keeping, their words and values, listening to their teachings and putting them into practice - it doesn't mean you have to adopt their lifestyle, wear the same clothes as them, eat the same food, live in the same style of house, use the same kind of money and so on. Otherwise none of us, and especially women, could ever follow Jesus.
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