Please post bible verses that state the weak in faith are those who haven't studied to show themselves approved. I know there are some in Romans concerning the weaker brother, but cannot see how that relates to your quote above.
Faith is not obedience.
God revealed himself in and through Jesus.
It is a sin to create images of God after the likeness of man. It is a sin to create Holy Days while rejecting God's Instructions.
People who did these things in the past were deceived and thought it was alright to "practice" such things believing that God would protect them anyway. But they were destroyed in the wilderness as an example to not do as they did.
Jesus gave us this exact example in Matt. 7, 23.
Had these believers checked themselves with the "Mirror" James speaks of, or the test 1 John gave us, they would have been able to identify their own wickedness and repented of it.
But because they refused to Glorify God with honor and obedience, their deceit remained and when they woke up, they realized where they were.
Matt. 7:
20 Wherefore by their fruits(Works) ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Is it God's Will that we create images of God after the likeness of man? Is it God's Will that we reject God's Sabbath He created for man and create our own? Is it God's Will that we create our own High Days, our own Righteousness, and reject God's instructions?
The answer to all the questions is a resounding NO! Yet "MANY" who come in Christ's name preach and do exactly these things.
22 Many will say to me
in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils? and in
thy name done
many wonderful works?
In other words, after they wake up and saw Abraham a far off, and saw the Lake of Fire and understood what is going on they say.
Hey Jesus, wait a minute, don't you know who we are? Don't you know all the things we did in your name, the handsome male model we created and placed your name on, the great High Days we created that the Whole world observes. Can't you see all the Huge Churches we built and all the poor people we helped, all in Your Name.
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.
So yes, I know you don't believe obedience is important, and that traditions of man are OK as long as we place Jesus' name on them.
but the Bible, yours and mine, teaches that obedience to God is the very "Fruit" that defines our faith.
"(For not the hearers of the law
are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."
Matt. 7: 23 confirms this teaching.
James 1:
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
Like those in Matt. 7:23.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word,
and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,
and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Certainly the believers in Matt. 7:23 forgot what manner of people they were.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
But what about traditions of religious man?
1 Cor. 7:
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing,
but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Had those Believers in Matt. 7:23 listened to God and obeyed Him instead of their own righteousness or their own religious traditions, maybe Jesus would have said something differently.
" Well done,
thou good and
faithful servant:
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things:
enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
