Should Christians Keep the Torah?

Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30.
Also, the first Church Council at Jerusalem dealt with this issue in Acts 15:6-29.

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[chadgleaves]

Most law keepers dont believe the law can save you but Jesus Christ alone. With that in agreement we are talking solely about how our walk with Christ should look AFTER salvation. The question that needs to be answered is whose rules should we follow to live a moral life pleasing to God. If you were a thief before Christ and you are convicted to stop......isn't that putting your self under the law. If you try to obey one you must obey all. You said it yourself. So to follow your logic you must

[ProclaimHisWord]

@chadgleaves The moral laws of God (do not kill, steal, covet, commit adultery, etc) are still binding for us today because they are all repeated in the New Testament letters. When we speak about the Torah, we are speaking about everything-- animal sacrifices, feasts, sabbath keeping, etc. There are people who say that we MUST keep all of those things, and failure to keep them proves that we are in wilfull disobedience. Btw, these people have no response when asked about animal sacrifices.

[MissRiki1987]

Thank GOD we don't have to keep the law anymore! Some of them hurt me and make me feel inferior cause I'm a woman. :-( Numbers 5, Numbers 30, Deuteronomy 25:11,12 and all those other verses that say women are nasty!

[777souldout]

Theres one huge reason that we should`nt live by the law and that is if you live by the law you'll be judged by it and we all fall short of the glory of GOD thats why jesus came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it jesus gave us only one commandment and that is to love because all the time you are loving and walking in the spirit you're not doing wrong but god understands that we all drop our cross sometimes just aslong as we don`t throw it away we are the donkey that carried jesus GODBLESS

[nubruhinpg]

Disturbed by this proclamation, as Paul consistently refers to to the oracles,living oracles as a standard for living. It is not a contradiction to look to the Torah for righteous guidance for living and walking in restored relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

[biggdad1]

@chadgleaves that's not placing your self under the law..The real question is what has God called His people to do and the answer is clear 1st John 3:23 This is His commandment, that we [l]believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. the one scripture Torah Keepers never use in arguments.

[biggdad1]

@YaHuWaHservant read LEVITICUS Chapters 1-23 you will see that with every feast day that there must be offerings of fire that had to be preformed by the Levitical Priesthood. It's no longer possible to even keep feast days without the sons of Aaron.

[biggdad1]

@meteormikael  Jesus is the everlasting Priest after the order of Melchizedek, the priesthood is done away with forever not temporarily. God also in ad 70 destroyed Herods temple as a sign of judgement and as a sign of the end of the 1ST Covenant. You can't keep all of Torah without the temple. God took away your ability to keep it all.

[biggdad1]

@meteormikael Suspended? The scriptures says differently in Hebrews 7:1111 Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron? 12 For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also. The Priesthood was changed, and so the Law changed also.

[meteormikael]

I say Yes every Laws in the Torah should be kept even the animal sacrifices if its possible but how can anyone do that right now when you can only offer that where He keep His name abide wc is in Jerusalem only and can we go and offer it ourselves? i dont think so,for there are no sons of Aaron anywhere nor any Levites alive and living right now to offer it for us.So i believe its just suspended for the time being.

[chadgleaves]

@ProclaimHisWord - I am friends with several messianic Jews. They do have a response to animal sacrifices. 1- Jesus took care of the atonement sacrifice. 2. There are OTHER sacrifices that do not deal with sin that are still valid today. 3. To sacrifice anywhere but the temple would be the same as sacrificing to a demon god. 4. Sacrifices do not determine salvation but belief in Christ - Salvation has always been the same in Old and New testament - Faith saves us.

[YaHuWaHservant]

@ProclaimHisWord Wasn't animal sacrifice the school master for what Jesus was going to do for the people? Thus Jesus' crucifixion was the fulfillment for the law of animal sacrifice. Hence why upon his death the curtain in the temple was torn. Faith and Devotion ultimately leads to works. If we love him we keep his commandments. Be blessed