No- the law is good and I am speaking of the law of God and not the Mosaic law with all of it's rituals and food laws and so on.
When a person accepts Christ as their Savior an automatic change happens. When they once enjoyed sin and rolled in sin and got up the next afternoon and called their friends to laugh and glory in their sin. Now, they detest it, and want to have nothing to do with it. This is why it's called being born again.
The law was given to show what sin was, The cross was given to deliver from sin. The cross is the means and object of our faith. This allows the Holy Spirit to work in us producing fruit. The law could not produce fruit it only condemns as no man has ever been able to keep the law. Hence the need for a Savior.
I essence and in truth, by placing faith in the work of the cross and not our works, the Holy Spirit causes us to follow the word of God.
But here is the struggle, we are still human and in flesh bodies and it is in our flesh to be our own God. Many will not beleive me on this, but this is what happens.
Our faith by temptation or by our own flesh gets shifted from the cross and placed in what we do. I mean we even start boasting, well I do this and I do that ( this is Romans 6,7,and8). when we do this, it ties the hand of the Holy Spirit so to speak as the Holy Spirit will only work in the parameters of the cross. Then we find ourselves doing things that we don't want to do.
But millions are under doctrines that teach differently, and we go crazy, asking God why am I doing this, please help me to stop. When the fact is we are bound by sin, because we have shifted our faith. And is the reason that the cross must preached continually and why we must be in the word reading and understanding the cross.
I know this is deep and can't be explained in a couple of Paragraphs. But, when reading Romans and others of Paul's epistles where it say's faith ask yourself "faith in what".
the Law God gave to Moses is not the "Law of Moses"...
Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Chapter 21 is a direct continuation of God speaking. There were no chapter breaks in the Hebrew, notice what GOD says to Moses...
Exo 21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Who is thou here? Moses. Who is speaking here?
Exo 20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
If one reads the Pentateuch, one finds that it is God speaking, first person to Moses. Moses did not make this stuff up.
The real question is who is the LORD that spoke to Moses?
Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Joh 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
No one has EVER SEEN the Father, yet we read...
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Adam and Eve heard the voice of God.
Exo 33:17 And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Exo 33:18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
Exo 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
Exo 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Exo 33:21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exo 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Exo 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Moses actually SAW the LORD (not His face but His back side).
Num 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Num 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Num 12:8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Moses saw the LORD and spoke to and heard the LORD's voice.
Who is the LORD? The great I AM?
Joh 18:5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am
he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
Joh 18:6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am
he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
Notice the "he" is in italics? Means it was not in the original. They knew who I AM was and that is why the went backward and fell to the ground.
Christ plainly says He is the one who was known to Moses as I AM.
Who gave the Law at Mt. Sinai?
1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Jesus Christ is the One who gave the Law, did He make a mistake? Did He come to correct the mistake He made?