Thought I'd check out a few of your verses:
Got to love all the fonts one gets getting verse from different sites! lol
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1 Corinthians 7:19?
19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. -- So was anyone circumcised and therefore righteous? Or is the only way one can be righteous thru Jesus?
I dont wanna give you an entire lesson on 1 Corinthians 7 so Ill try to nutshell it. The terms Circumcision and Uncircumcision here refer to a group. In this case circumcision refers to those descended from Israel and uncircumcision refers to non-Israelites (by birth). Paul was instructing both groups to not try to become what theyre not..in other words a Circumcised Jew who receives salvation, trying to surgically undo circumcision (to be part of the uncircumcision) or a non-circumcised gentile trying to circumcise/proselyte in order to become part of the circumcision. Because at the end of the day, whether you were called (saved) as a Gentile or a Jew, what matters is keeping Gods Commandments. Because you are now Gods children, therefore obey His Instruction!
Acts 21:24? 24 Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. --- So are do you keep all the purification rites? All the washings required by the law? If not you are breaking the law.
Actually
theres no Temple. If I were to offer or perform any of the Temple commandments outside of the Temple, Id be breaking the Law. Good try though. (You will notice that sacrifices and offerings will be restored in the millennial kingdom Malachi 3:4, Ezekiel 40-46..why is that?)
Acts 21:20? 20 When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. Nice verse, being zealous for the law to believe.
Did you seriously just finish reading the verse?
Step one: They have believed
Step two: They are zealous of the Law of God.
Goes along with Romans 3:31. Salvation doesnt do away with Gods Instructions. If anything, we can more joyfully concur with the Law of God as Paul did (Romans 7:22) confessing that its good and useful for us!
They werent saved by the Law of God. The Instructions of God is a path for the righteous to walk in!
Romans 10:5? For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. -- Ya, what did Paul just get done saying? Israel failed to obey the law. Rom.9 Jesus is the only one who fulfilled the law. So you want to set people up to fail. Is anyone more jealous to obey the law than the Pharisees in Jesus day?
What?
Did Moses failed to obey the Law? Did David? Did Daniel? Did His disciples? Did the tens and thousands of jewish believers? Did Zechariah and Elisabeth? Did God always have a remnant of believers who DID keep His commandments and walked in His ways? (Like Elijah? Read Romans 11) God has ALWAYS had and always WILL have a remnant of faithful believers, elected by grace who walk in His ways). Yes National Israel has been partially hardened so that you and I can be saved, but even now everyone who believes is grafted in AMONG the very same remnant of believers that contains Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Elijah! They all lived and followed Gods Ways!
John 14:15? If you love me, keep my commands. Dont you read in context? 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
Not sure what that context changes
Messiah did not do, or say anything that God did not command Him, perfectly obeying and following Gods Commandments. When He tells us to follow Him, are we supposed to keep Gods Commandments as He did, or create a new religion that chooses whatever Instructions they want to follow instead of the ones Messiah followed? What does 1 John 2:6 say?
Matthew 5:19? 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.
Yup, very good verses. Again read the context. Do no murder, do not commit adultery, do not break your oath. .. very good examples of not loving ones neighbor.
But those are not the ONLY commandments that God has instructed us to keep. Notice verse 19 says the least! of Gods commandments. Where do you get off deciding which commandments He is talking about?