Read MOSES and his requirements. You demonstrably do NOT keep the Law of Moses now but have invented your own version of the "Law" to follow..
If you would just read Moses then you would have no confusion on this and make unsupportable claims that any people on our planet observe the Law of Moses today.
You think because you observe Saturday Sabbath that you "follow the Law"? LOL
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Nearly 1/2 of the Law of Moses required a Temple and legitimate Levitical priests just in order to
observe the Law.
We know you don't keep the Law of Moses because of how many of Moses' precepts depended on Temple sacrifices and the mediation of the Levitical priesthood of Aaron, which went fully extinct at AD 70.
We know you don't keep the Law of Moses because of how few people you've stoned to death.
The Mosaic Covenant was a "tutorial" for Israel, to bring them to the Messiah (Gal 3:17-19,24-25). Once the Messiah had come, the jews were no longer under that tutorial system (Gal 3:24-25), but were redeemed from it (Gal 4:4-5). So, the apostles' ministry consisted of preparing God's people for the new covenant world in which the Mosaic Covenantal system wouldn't exist as it formerly did. This took place in AD 70, when the Temple was destroyed and the essential ceremonial distinctives of the Mosaic Temple practices went extinct.
The moral code that Moses established was taken into the New Covenant, but the ceremonial system of ordinances (blood sacrifices, jewish feasts, clean foods, etc.) was removed by Messiah's Cross.
Perhaps you will do a bible study on the book of Galatians, which lays out that the ceremonial law has reached its fulfillment in Christ Jesus. This is why the Old Covenant system of animal sacrifices, Levitical priesthood, circumcision, etc disappeared back in the first century. Paul specifically cites that all those things had at one time been introduced by God to prefigure the coming of Christ (Gal 3:23-29/Col 2:16-20). Now that the Christ has come, those things fall away like scaffolding, and what remains is Christ Himself and His New Covenant Law.
As for the Sabbath, as that is apparently the basket you're hanging all your eggs on, the Saturday Sabbath is not erased, but Col 2:15-17
explicitly says it was no longer binding once Christ came (as is also true of animal sacrifice, and physical circumcision). Mandatory Saturday observance was part of the Old Mosaic Covenant; and Christ abrogated the Mosaic Covenant by instituting His New Covenant (
Hebrews 7:12-22;
Galatians 3:17-29). So already in the New Testament era you see the apostles teaching men to shift away from mandatory observances of the Mosaic ceremonial practices (Gal 5:1-6; Acts 15:5-11, 24-29).
Jesus brought the Mosaic contract/economy to an end when he instituted his New Covenant contract/economy. The Mosaic contract began at Sinai and reached its consummation in the generation of The Christ. The Christic contract begins at Mt. Zion in the first century and has no end.
Hebrews 7:11-19 makes clear that the Mosaic constitution instituted by Moses and transacted through the Levitical priesthood was not the way to perfection. As such, it was made obsolete by the Christic constitution instituted by The Christ and transacted via the Melchizedekian priesthood.
We are now under the Law of Christ (1 Cor 9:21; Gal 6:2), which is New Covenant Law. The Mosaic Law Contract was annulled in full (Heb 7:11-19) and went extinct at AD 70 (it was "about to vanish" at the time
Hebrews 8:13 was written). Many aspects of Mosaic law carry over into the Christic Law within the eternal New Covenant contract, but with important modifications:
(1) the
Deuteronomy 27:26 "curse of the Mosaic Law" is abolished under the Christic Legal System (Gal 3:10-13)
(2) the Mosaic ceremonial and temple rites are done away (Col 2:14-17; Eph 2:14-18; Matt 12:1-7; Matt 15:15-20; Mk 7:14-15;
John 4:21-23;
Mark 13:1-4,30)
(3) the principle spirit of God's laws through Moses is to be applied and fully observed, and not a tortured application of the letter of Mosaic law (2 Cor 3:6, 1 Tim 1:8-10; Rom13:8-10; Rom 8:4; Rom 2:13)
(4)
Deuteronomy 6:5 and
Leviticus 19:18 are the two greatest of the Mosaic laws from which all judicial observance must flow (Lk 10:27)
So, the New Covenant Law of Christ (1 Cor 9:21; Gal 6:2) is a modification of the old Mosaic Law system. The Law of Christ is the final code for true Israel. It contains The Christ's teaching on how to live by God's law under a New and everlasting Covenant.
* BTW, None of this can be found on Wiki lol
(and for our readers, I'm confident this puts to rest Derekh's spurious assault on my character that I "don't know scripture" lol)
Your Turn...
Show us what you claim constitutes the Law and how you follow it in totality.
