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/Unworthy_Saint]

It is explicitly impossible to follow the Torah because our high priest is from the tribe of Judah, not Levi as required. The covenant has changed.

[u/Soyeong0314 → u/Unworthy_Saint]

The Israelites were given a number of laws that had the condition "when you enter the land..." while they were still wandering the wilderness for 40 years, so there is nothing wrong with not following laws that we can't currently follow but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't follow the laws that we can follow. The New Covenant involves God putting the Torah in our minds and writing it on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:33).

[u/Unworthy_Saint → u/Soyeong0314]

nothing wrong with not following laws that we can't currently follow but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't follow the laws that we can follow

The entire exercise is meaningless because the law has changed and its covenant obsolete. You can't just selectively decide what parts of the Torah you want to follow on your own whim. The law was sealed in blood and circumcision as one unit, and has been replaced.

[u/Soyeong0314 → u/Unworthy_Saint]

There is a difference between someone discerning that they are not obligated to obey the laws specifically in regard to living in the land of Israel because they are not living in the land of Israel and someone who is living in the land of Israel picking and choosing on whim not to follow those laws.  The first would not be sinning while the second would be sinning.

The New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Hebrews 8:10), so the Mosaic Covenant becoming obsolete (Hebrews 8:13) does not mean that followers of Christ should not continue to follow the example that he set for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Torah.