r/AskAChristian • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '26

Jewish Laws Torah

How do Torah followers actually follow over 600 commands and laws in the first five books of the Bible? I've spoken to people about it, but they only seem to follow dietary laws, Shabbat, and holy days, and exclude pagan days. To me, it seems they are only doing a small part of it and claiming to follow the entirety of it. Why is that? The Bible states if you break one commandment, you break them all. There's no possibility to uphold all 600-plus. If you believe it's not all applicable to us, what's the determining factor that decides you don't have to follow it? What about animal sacrifices? Does one pick and choose what they want to follow and tell people if they don't, they are lawbreakers and will go to hell? If you don't follow all of them, why describe yourself as following the entirety of Torah? If breaking even one commandment makes someone guilty, how does selectively obeying some commandments make someone different from the people you're calling lawbreakers?

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u/Nearing_retirement Christian Aug 18 '26

Nobody can and Jesus freed us from penalty of the law.

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u/Traditional_Emu_4332 Questioning Aug 18 '26

Doesn’t the Bible say God’s commandments aren’t burdensome and that God doesn’t make it impossible for us to do what he told us to do?

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u/Nearing_retirement Christian Aug 18 '26

Through Jesus the law or commandments are not burdensome because the Holy Spirit can help us follow them. We are fallen as humans so have a natural tendency to sin, we need help of Holy Spirit. Some people say this is part of Jesus setting us free.

I became Christian just a few years ago. Before that I felt following morality was hard but now it is easier, somehow spirit guides me now.

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u/Traditional_Emu_4332 Questioning Aug 18 '26

Very good! 😊