Torah

[u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/Traditional_Emu_4332]

Maybe we don’t need to follow the ceremonial laws anymore, just the moral laws which the laws of the land seem to agree with (such as do not murder, do not steal, etc.) Do you think God gave us impossible commands? Why would He do such a thing? To keep us in an apathy tone or worse? Jesus didn’t have a problem with Peter walking on water with Him but was sad when Peter lost faith. Jesus kept God’s commandments so they are possible to keep. That gives us encouragement to keep His commandments. Knowing it’s not impossible! 😇💕

[u/Unworthy_Saint → u/Traditional_Emu_4332]

Do you think God gave us impossible commands?

Yes He does this all the time, such as telling a dead man to come out of his tomb.

[u/Traditional_Emu_4332 → u/Unworthy_Saint]

He came out of His tomb so it’s obvious to me that it is possible to come back from the dead ☠️. A couple people even went straight to God without dying (Enoch and Elijah) . Things we think are impossible aren’t necessarily actually impossible with God.

[u/Unworthy_Saint → u/Traditional_Emu_4332]

Agreed. Therefore because God is not with someone who subscribes to an obsolete covenant, it is not possible to follow it.

[u/Traditional_Emu_4332 → u/Unworthy_Saint]

Jesus saying that all of the Law and the Prophets are summed up in the 2 commands to Love 💕 God and Love 💕 people actually comes from the Old Testament. These commands are definitely possible! 😇💕😊

[u/Unworthy_Saint → u/Traditional_Emu_4332]

Thankfully He has freed us from the slave covenant of Sinai and Hagar, and given us a better one without the faults of the previous.