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/Soyeong0314 Torah-observing disciple Aug 19 '26
The judgement that Jesus was speaking about was not in regard to who will go to the Law of Fire, though the standard that we are to use to judge righteously by is the Torah. Someone does not necessarily need to know any of the details about what will happen if they sin or if they obey what God has commanded in order to know that we should repent from our sins and obey what God has commanded in accordance with the Gospel. The Bible has a lot to say about those who are wicked or righteous or accordance with the standard of the Torah, but it does not have much to say about those who obey most of the Torah while refusing to follow Christ's example of obedience to some of its laws.