Amazing to me that some still want to live by the Law, as in keeping Sabbath, Jewish diets, for if you go that route, have to keep it all!
YF, that's only true for those who seek to keep the Law as their means for justification and salvation. When you paint every intention with the broad brush strokes of condemnation, any one of us most generally ends up on the side of gross error.
Acts 21:20 And when they heard [it], they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
Now, if you can find in anywhere in that context where those believing Jews were in any way chastised for their zealotry for the Law, then please point it out to me. I'd very much like to see it.
The Jewish believers understood these things, and were still zealous for the Law, and never once rebuked for it:
Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Romans 3:20, 28
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin. ... 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
I could go on and on and on, and one will search in vain to find any instruction to disregard the Law, to not study it, and to disregard applying the knowledge obtained from the Law, which can and does assist in one's ability to abstain from sin, especially the commission of many sins through ignorance.
So, it's the difference between applying the Law of God PROPERLY in one's life. Leaving out justification, one is well within the good pleasure of the Lord to study it and learn from it. Far too many people have given themselves over to the falsehoods of the Romish church teachings about the Law here in the West.
Again, if anyone has something with substance that would say otherwise, then I welcome your insights.
Love you all, and thoroughly enjoy sharing these good things with you.
MM