Christians are not under the OT Law

[civic]

The key to understanding the relationship between the Christian and the Law is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to reveal to the Israelites how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments, for example). Some of the laws were to show the Israelites how to worship God and atone for sin (the sacrificial system). Some of the laws were intended to make the Israelites distinct from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law is binding on Christians today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23–25; Ephesians 2:15).

In place of the Old Testament law, Christians are under the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2), which is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). If we obey those two commands, we will be fulfilling all that Christ requires of us: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:40). Now, this does not mean the Old Testament law is irrelevant today. Many of the commands in the Old Testament law fall into the categories of “loving God” and “loving your neighbor.” The Old Testament law can be a good guidepost for knowing how to love God and knowing what goes into loving your neighbor. At the same time, to say that the Old Testament law applies to Christians today is incorrect. The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some of it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.

“This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). The Ten Commandments were essentially a summary of the entire Old Testament law. Nine of the Ten Commandments are clearly repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God, we will not be worshiping false gods or bowing down before idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we will not be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. The purpose of the Old Testament law is to convict people of our inability to keep the law and point us to our need for Jesus Christ as Savior (Romans 7:7-9; Galatians 3:24). The Old Testament law was never intended by God to be the universal law for all people for all of time. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we obey those two commands faithfully, we will be upholding all that God requires of us.got?

hope this helps !!!

 

[Soyeong]

The key to understanding the relationship between the Christian and the Law is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to reveal to the Israelites how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments, for example). Some of the laws were to show the Israelites how to worship God and atone for sin (the sacrificial system). Some of the laws were intended to make the Israelites distinct from other nations (the food and clothing rules).

While the Mosaic Law was given to Israel, it was given to Israel to equip them to be a light and a blessing to the nations by teaching the nations to obey it by spreading the Gospel in accordance with the promise. In 1 Peter 1:16, we are told to be holy for God is holy, and in 1 Peter 2:9-10, Gentiles are included as part of God's chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a treasure of God's own possession, which are terms used to describe Israel (Deuteronomy 7:6), so Gentiles also have the delight of getting to obey the instructions that God gave to Israel for how to fulfill those roles, which includes being distinct from the other nations.

None of the Old Testament law is binding on Christians today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23–25; Ephesians 2:15).

In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the nations, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message. Christ also set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6). So Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example and he did not go to the cross in order to negate what he accomplished through his ministry. Rather, in Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to the Mosaic Law is the way to believe in what Christ accomplished through his ministry and the cross (Acts 21:20) and you should not interpret those verses in a way that negates everything that he accomplished. People can look at what Christ taught and decided whether or not not to follow him, but people can't follow him while refusing to follow what he taught.

In place of the Old Testament law, Christians are under the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2), which is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). If we obey those two commands, we will be fulfilling all that Christ requires of us: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:40). Now, this does not mean the Old Testament law is irrelevant today. Many of the commands in the Old Testament law fall into the categories of “loving God” and “loving your neighbor.” The Old Testament law can be a good guidepost for knowing how to love God and knowing what goes into loving your neighbor. At the same time, to say that the Old Testament law applies to Christians today is incorrect. The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some of it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.

God is not in disagreement with Himself about which law we should follow, so the Law of Chris is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses. It is absurd to think that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to the law that Christ spent his ministry teaching.

If Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus was not asked about which are the only commandments that we should still follow, but about which is the greatest commandment, and the existence of the greatest two commandments implies the existence of other commandments that are not the greatest two. If you think that we should obey the greatest two commandments, then you should think that we should obey all of the other commandments that hang on them. For example, if we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit adultery, theft, murder, idolatry, kidnapping, rape, favoritism, and so forth for the rest of the Mosaic Law. If anything in the Mosaic Law was not an example of how to correctly obey the greatest two commandments, then it would not be the case that they all hang on the greatest two.

"To fulfill the law" means "to cause God's will (as made known through His law) to be obeyed as it should be" (NAS Greek Lexicon: pleroo). After Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in Matthew 5, he then proceeded to fulfill it six times throughout the rest of the chapter by teaching how to correctly obey it as it should be.

“This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). The Ten Commandments were essentially a summary of the entire Old Testament law. Nine of the Ten Commandments are clearly repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God, we will not be worshiping false gods or bowing down before idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we will not be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. The purpose of the Old Testament law is to convict people of our inability to keep the law and point us to our need for Jesus Christ as Savior (Romans 7:7-9; Galatians 3:24). The Old Testament law was never intended by God to be the universal law for all people for all of time. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we obey those two commands faithfully, we will be upholding all that God requires of us.got?

In 1 John 5:3, it does not specify that it is speaking about only ten of God's commandments. Nowhere does the Bible say that one of the purposes of the Mosaic Law is to convict us of our inability to keep it, but rather 1 John 5:3 says that God's commandments are not burdensome. To claim that we have the inability to keep it is to deny that. God's commandments are not burdensome and to deny that anyone has ever loved God. Furthermore, in Deuteronomy 30:11-14, God's word says that the Mosaic Law is not too difficult for us to keep. In Matthew 7:23, Jesus said that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so the Mosaic Law points us to Jesus because it was give to teach us how to know him.

None of the NT authors were in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow, so we have no need for them to have repeated any of His commandments in order to know that we should still obey the Father. Jesus set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, so he would have still taught full obedience to it by example even if the NT hadn't repeated any commands, and we are told to follow his example. If we love God and our neighbor, then we will also keep the Sabbath and God's other commandments in the. Mosaic Law, which is why the Bible repeatedly states in both the OT and the NT that if we love God, then we will obey His commandments.

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It does not help to interpret God's word as speaking against obeying God's word.

 

[mikesw]

If I understand this correctly, gentiles are invited to be under the curse of the law and to be held under a slave-like state under a guardian/tutor (compare Gal 3: 10, 23-26). Thus gentiles and Jews are subjugated to an eternal ground hog day (i.e. a movie reference). They get freed from the OT law through Christ and then are put under it. This is repeated when they wake up and then redo that same sequence again.

 

[Truther]

The key to understanding the relationship between the Christian and the Law is knowing that the Old Testament law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. Some of the laws were to reveal to the Israelites how to obey and please God (the Ten Commandments, for example). Some of the laws were to show the Israelites how to worship God and atone for sin (the sacrificial system). Some of the laws were intended to make the Israelites distinct from other nations (the food and clothing rules). None of the Old Testament law is binding on Christians today. When Jesus died on the cross, He put an end to the Old Testament law (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:23–25; Ephesians 2:15).

In place of the Old Testament law, Christians are under the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2), which is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…and to love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37-39). If we obey those two commands, we will be fulfilling all that Christ requires of us: “All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:40). Now, this does not mean the Old Testament law is irrelevant today. Many of the commands in the Old Testament law fall into the categories of “loving God” and “loving your neighbor.” The Old Testament law can be a good guidepost for knowing how to love God and knowing what goes into loving your neighbor. At the same time, to say that the Old Testament law applies to Christians today is incorrect. The Old Testament law is a unit (James 2:10). Either all of it applies, or none of it applies. If Christ fulfilled some of it, such as the sacrificial system, He fulfilled all of it.

“This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). The Ten Commandments were essentially a summary of the entire Old Testament law. Nine of the Ten Commandments are clearly repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day). Obviously, if we are loving God, we will not be worshiping false gods or bowing down before idols. If we are loving our neighbors, we will not be murdering them, lying to them, committing adultery against them, or coveting what belongs to them. The purpose of the Old Testament law is to convict people of our inability to keep the law and point us to our need for Jesus Christ as Savior (Romans 7:7-9; Galatians 3:24). The Old Testament law was never intended by God to be the universal law for all people for all of time. We are to love God and love our neighbors. If we obey those two commands faithfully, we will be upholding all that God requires of us.got?

hope this helps !!!

The Law was not only to Israel, but to condemn the entire world and make everyone guilty before God. The Law is active for sinners.

 

[Behold]

If I understand this correctly, gentiles are invited to be under the curse of the law and to be held under a slave-like state under a guardian/tutor (compare Gal 3: 10, 23-26). Thus gentiles and Jews are subjugated to an eternal ground hog day (i.e. a movie reference). They get freed from the OT law through Christ and then are put under it. This is repeated when they wake up and then redo that same sequence again.

The Born again are "not under the Law....but under Grace".

"Christ is the END... OF>.. THE .. LAW, ... for RIGHTEOUSNESS, to everyone who BELIEVES".

"Christ has redeemed the born again from the CURSE... OF... THE... Law"..

Why is the law a "Curse"..


A.) "The Law is the power of sin"...."The power of Sin is the Law".

AA.) Its the LAW that defines you as a sinner.

 

[mikesw]

The Born again are "not under the Law....but under Grace".

"Christ is the END... OF>.. THE .. LAW, ... for RIGHTEOUSNESS, to everyone who BELIEVES".

"Christ has redeemed the born again from the CURSE... OF... THE... Law"..

Why is the law a "Curse"..


A.) "The Law is the power of sin"...."The power of Sin is the Law".

AA.) Its the LAW that defines you as a sinner.

Sure. your point is pretty much correct. I was just pointing out that the idea of being under the law contradicts the benefit that Christ brought to people. I can note that the verse about being under curse in Gal 3 seems to be interpreted too much as a fact when it appears better to say that people who were under the law were under threat of a curse, not actually cursed. Maybe that distinction is academic though.

 

[dwight92070]

The nine commandments that appear to be repeated in the New Testament are not fully repeated. The Old Covenant gives a punishment or consequence for violating those laws. The New Covenant does not. Also there are other Old Covenant "laws" or commands that are repeated in the New Covenant. "Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." You shall not eat blood. Acts 15
"You shall not tempt the Lord your God.", and probably more.

 

[Soyeong]

Sure. your point is pretty much correct. I was just pointing out that the idea of being under the law contradicts the benefit that Christ brought to people. I can note that the verse about being under curse in Gal 3 seems to be interpreted too much as a fact when it appears better to say that people who were under the law were under threat of a curse, not actually cursed. Maybe that distinction is academic though.

God did not give His laws as a curse to His children, but rather He gave it as a gift for our own good in order to teach us how to be blessed (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13). According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on the Law of God is the way to be blessed while not relying on it is the way to be cursed, so Jesus freeing us from the curse of the law is freeing us from not relying on it so that we can be free to enjoy the blessing of relying on it. In Acts 3:25-26, Jesus was sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness, so being under the law is the benefit that Christ brought to His people.

 

[Soyeong]

The nine commandments that appear to be repeated in the New Testament are not fully repeated. The Old Covenant gives a punishment or consequence for violating those laws. The New Covenant does not. Also there are other Old Covenant "laws" or commands that are repeated in the New Covenant. "Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." You shall not eat blood. Acts 15
"You shall not tempt the Lord your God.", and probably more.

None of the NT authors were in disagreement with the Father about whether we should obey His word, so we have no need for them to have repeated any commandments in order for us to know that we should still obey the Father. Christ would have still taught how to walk in obedience to the Torah by example even if he hadn't repeated any commands, and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6). Jesus did not establish the New Covenant for the purpose of undermining anything that he spent his ministry teaching by word or by example, but rather the New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Jeremiah 31:33).

 

[mikesw]

God did not give His laws as a curse to His children, but rather He gave it as a gift for our own good in order to teach us how to be blessed (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13). According to Deuteronomy 27-28, relying on the Law of God is the way to be blessed while not relying on it is the way to be cursed, so Jesus freeing us from the curse of the law is freeing us from not relying on it so that we can be free to enjoy the blessing of relying on it. In Acts 3:25-26, Jesus was sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness, so being under the law is the benefit that Christ brought to His people.

Shoot. Paul got it all wrong. What would he know about Christ and the law since all he did is live his earlier life as a Pharisee?

The law is not for the righteous but the unrighteous. To reclaim a need to be under the law is to deny the righteousness that comes from Christ. It is to deny the work of Christ on the cross. You further deny how Paul has shown the benefits come through the promise of God to Abraham and Christ such that the Mosaic period was left for those of the bloodline Israel. And even if you consider yourself to be the bloodline of Israel, the law era still ended in the first century -- unless you are trying to deny what Christ did (but it still ended anyhow). Now if you totally misbehave, Paul pointed out the use of the law for correction, reproof, and instruction. But that is far from being under the law.

 

[Believe]

One things for sure the law can't save you only Christ can do that. Then you have the law of Christ. The law of Christ is mentioned only twice in the New Testament. In Galatians 6:2 Paul calls upon the Galatians to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”

To those without (outside) law I became as one without law, not that I am without the law of God and lawless toward Him, but that I am [especially keeping] within and committed to the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law.
1 Co 9:21.

 

[mikesw]

One things for sure the law can't save you only Christ can do that. Then you have the law of Christ. The law of Christ is mentioned only twice in the New Testament. In Galatians 6:2 Paul calls upon the Galatians to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”

To those without (outside) law I became as one without law, not that I am without the law of God and lawless toward Him, but that I am [especially keeping] within and committed to the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law.
1 Co 9:21.

I like that Gal 6:2 quote that clarifies the law of Christ. But that translation of 1 Cor 9:21 is kind of hard to understand.

 

[Believe]

I like that Gal 6:2 quote that clarifies the law of Christ. But that translation of 1 Cor 9:21 is kind of hard to understand.

I hear you, that Amplified Bible adds so many words that it can be confusing.

 

[Believe]

This is more straightforward.
21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law
1 Co 9:21.

 

[Soyeong]

Shoot. Paul got it all wrong. What would he know about Christ and the law since all he did is live his earlier life as a Pharisee?

I completely agree with Paul and said nothing to suggest that he got anything wrong, but perhaps you've misunderstood what he said.

The law is not for the righteous but the unrighteous. To reclaim a need to be under the law is to deny the righteousness that comes from Christ. It is to deny the work of Christ on the cross.

The righteous are those on whose heart is God's law (Isaiah 51:7). Those who say that the law is only for the unrighteous to justify their freedom to be unrighteous thereby become someone that the law is for. Christ expressed his righteousness by living in obedience to God's law, so that is also the way that we live when we have the righteousness that comes from Christ. To be righteous means to be a doer of righteous works, just as to be courageous means to be a doer of courageous works, and God's law is His instructions for how to be a doer of righteous works.

In Titus 2:14, it doesn't say that Jesus gave himself to free us from God's law, but in order to free us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to believe in what he accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20) while returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from is the way to deny his work on the cross.

You further deny how Paul has shown the benefits come through the promise of God to Abraham and Christ such that the Mosaic period was left for those of the bloodline Israel. And even if you consider yourself to be the bloodline of Israel, the law era still ended in the first century -- unless you are trying to deny what Christ did (but it still ended anyhow). Now if you totally misbehave, Paul pointed out the use of the law for correction, reproof, and instruction. But that is far from being under the law.

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is in accordance with Jesus being sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness (Acts 3:25-26), which is the Gospel that was made known in advance to Abraham in accordance with the promise (Galatians 3:8), which he spread to those in Haran in accordance with the promise (Genesis 12:1-5).

In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teaching his children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that He has promised. In Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply Abraham's children as the stars in the heaven, to his children He will give all of these lands, and through his children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because Abraham heard God's voice and guarded His commandments, statutes, and laws. In Deuteronomy 30:16, if the children of Abraham will love God with all of their heart by walking in His way in obedience to His commandments, statutes, and laws, then they will live and multiply and God will bless them in the land that they go to posses. So the promise was made to Abraham and brought about because he walked in God's way in obedience to His law, he taught His children and those of his household to do that in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom, and because they did that.

In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works as him, and in. Psalms 119:1-3, God's law is how the children of Abraham knew how to be blessed by walking in God's way, so the way that the children of Abraham are multiplied and are a blessing to the nations through inheriting the promise through faith is by turning the nations from their wickedness and teaching them to do the same works as Abraham by walking in God's way in obedience to His law in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom.

God is sovereign, so we are all under His law and are obligated to refrain from doing what He has revealed to be sin. In Psalms 119:160, all of God's righteous laws are eternal, so the era of God's law will never end.

 

[Soyeong]

This is more straightforward.
21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law—not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ—that I might win those outside the law
1 Co 9:21.

Paul used a parallel statement to equate not being outside the Law of God with being under the Law of Christ, so that confirms that we are still under the Law of God.

 

[Soyeong]

One things for sure the law can't save you only Christ can do that. Then you have the law of Christ. The law of Christ is mentioned only twice in the New Testament. In Galatians 6:2 Paul calls upon the Galatians to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”

To those without (outside) law I became as one without law, not that I am without the law of God and lawless toward Him, but that I am [especially keeping] within and committed to the law of Christ, that I might win those who are without law.
1 Co 9:21.

Living in obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation from God as the result, but rather it is the way that God is giving His gift of salvation to us. Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sins while we continued to live in sin, so there must be an aspect of our salvation that we are experiencing in the present by living in obedience to God's law. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so we are not required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result and we are not required to do those works as the result of having first been saved, but rather God graciously teaching us to experience doing those works in obedience to His law is the content of His gift of saving us from not having that experience.

God is not in disagreement with Himself about which laws we should follow, so the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses. Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example, so I don't see any justification for thinking that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to what Christ taught. It is contradictory to think that we are saved through faith in God's word made flesh, but not through faith in God's word.

 

[mikesw]

Living in obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation from God as the result, but rather it is the way that God is giving His gift of salvation to us. Our salvation from sin would be incomplete if we were only saved from the penalty of our sins while we continued to live in sin, so there must be an aspect of our salvation that we are experiencing in the present by living in obedience to God's law. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so we are not required to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result and we are not required to do those works as the result of having first been saved, but rather God graciously teaching us to experience doing those works in obedience to His law is the content of His gift of saving us from not having that experience.

God is not in disagreement with Himself about which laws we should follow, so the Law of Christ is the same as the Law of the Spirit and the Law of the Father, which was given to Moses. Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Law of Moses by word and by example, so I don't see any justification for thinking that the Law of Christ is something other than or contrary to what Christ taught. It is contradictory to think that we are saved through faith in God's word made flesh, but not through faith in God's word.

You are just speaking of your philosophical reason why, despite what Paul says in Gal 6:2, that you think that Christ has resurrected the Mosaic law. Maybe you can find some passage speaking to gentiles to show they are obligated to a foreigner's system of governance. Note that Paul indicates in Rom 3:19-20 that the gentiles are not Jews and thus not under the Jewish legal system. Maybe you can find some non-Pauline writing to make your point since Paul disagrees with you.
You really need something where Paul says "you gentiles are obligated to follow the law that became too burdensome to Jews" (Acts 15).

 

[mikesw]

Those who say that the law is only for the unrighteous to justify their freedom to be unrighteous thereby become someone that the law is for.

This may explain your confusion. This is a very confusing statement that has nothing to do with Paul's meaning. Paul says if you are not justified in Christ and you are left to the flesh to live by, then the law is there to punish you. On the other hand, if you are justified in Christ, you do not need the law to accuse you, since Christ is the one who justifies you. Any effort to be justified by the flesh through the law just leaves you unjustified. But if you want to be under the law and left unjustified, that is your option.
If instead, you seek to be helpful to Christians and even other people, there is no law for that but only living out of a kind heart. But those under the law actually lived unrighteously and were judged for falling away from God. There is no law to tell you how to be helpful to your neighbor, just laws against you killing them. You can also join in condemning people so you can be justified. Maybe you think that is kind enough.

which is in accordance with Jesus being sent in fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness (Acts 3:25-26),

You restore the law which brought wrath (Rom 4:15) and seek to be found righteous by virtue of being under God's wrath. The Jews were pointed out for their wickedness when they claimed to be doing the law. Now you want us to follow that same pattern (Acts 3:25-26). That is too much oddness for me to accept.

In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he would teaching his children and those of his household to walk in His way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that He has promised

The instruction from Abraham was to do justice. It did not say to that they will have to follow a law given 400+ years later. So why do you make such a superfluous reference to Abraham here? Then you refer to Deut 30:16 which most Jews did not do, so how does that support the goal of being justified by the law in your mind? Jesus said they were not children of Abraham but of Satan. Again it is not clear why you speak of Abraham and the Mosaic law in the same breath since that came long after Abraham due to the transgressions of the tribes of Israel.

So it appears your arguments are self-contradictory unless you find away to reconcile what you claim to what Paul says.

 

[TomL]

You are just speaking of your philosophical reason why, despite what Paul says in Gal 6:2, that you think that Christ has resurrected the Mosaic law. Maybe you can find some passage speaking to gentiles to show they are obligated to a foreigner's system of governance. Note that Paul indicates in Rom 3:19-20 that the gentiles are not Jews and thus not under the Jewish legal system. Maybe you can find some non-Pauline writing to make your point since Paul disagrees with you.
You really need something where Paul says "you gentiles are obligated to follow the law that became too burdensome to Jews" (Acts 15).

Of course Not found in scripture

Don't know how anyone reading and believing the New testament could affirm that

Galatians 4:21–31 (NIV) — 21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise. 24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” 28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son,(the old covenant of the allegory) for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.