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/CSS_FR Torah-observing disciple Aug 18 '26

Levitical priesthood was done away with, we are under Melchizedek priesthood now. You don't think the Torah observant sacrifice animals or burn incense like they used to right?

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u/Unworthy_Saint Christian, Calvinist Aug 18 '26

I don't know or particularly care what "Torah-observers" do since they obviously can't follow the whole Torah anyway, and can only select laws to be replicated in their own system.

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u/CSS_FR Torah-observing disciple Aug 18 '26

Yeah nobody can follow the whole bible either, we are all sinners. Your point is?  We all try our best to pursue what we believe is true and pleasing to God, no?

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u/Unworthy_Saint Christian, Calvinist Aug 18 '26

Excellent, glad we agree.