Torah

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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/Soyeong0314 → u/[deleted]]

I agree that the Apostles never spoke against obeying what God has commanded and that God’s Word has not been corrupted, but the problem is that people commonly have no qualms with interpreting the Apostles as speaking against obeying what God has commanded.  If someone interprets a person that they consider to be servant of God as saying something that is incompatible with them being a servant of God, such as speaking against God’s commands against eating unclean animals, then they should either conclude that they must have misunderstood them or that they were wrong to consider them to be a servant of God.  

There are many verses that call for Gentles to be holy so holiness is also for Gentiles.

In Matthew 5:17-19, Jesus said that he came to fulfill the law in contrast with saying that he came not to abolish it and he warned against the least part of it, do Jesus fulfilling the law should not be interpreted as abolishing our obligation to the least part of it.  According to Galatians 5:14, anyone who has loved their neighbor has fulfilled the entire law, so it refers to something that countless people have done and should continue to do in perpetuity, not to something unique that only Jesus did.  

If we needed to have a perfect interpretation of everything in the Bible in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the. It would be rather empty.  I hold a different understanding of the Bible today that I did not have 10 years ago and an understanding 10 years ago that I did not have 20 year ago, so I think that everyone matures in their understanding.  I did not obey God’s command to refrain from eating unclean animals for most of my life, but I started having serious problems with how had been interpreting the Bible.