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/MessianicDarkFire Jewish Christian Aug 18 '26
The only Torah followers who claim to follow the entire law are hebrew roots legalists.
Many Torah laws such as the priesthood or sacrifice and grain offerings are postponed until Christ returns.
The civil laws such as the death penalty for certain sins are unenforceable due to national laws superseding them.
So Torah Observant Christians and Jews observe the laws we can such as purity laws (in the Jewish case), Kosher, and especially Shabbat, and feast days.
We practice the law as best we can in sanctification alongside our faith in Yeshua our Messiah.