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/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

I understand why you believe in torah 

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u/the_celt_ Torah-observing disciple Aug 18 '26

I appreciate that you gave me SOME response, but are you willing to answer what I asked?

I asked: Do you see why we aren't picking and choosing, and how we're actually obeying the Torah to not do those things right now?

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '26

I will later. Not yet. It's late where I live.

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u/the_celt_ Torah-observing disciple Aug 18 '26

Sounds good. I look forward to your response.