Elin, your applications of "law" do not state if you are referring to the Old Covenant ceremonial law, or the "Law of the Lord" (Psalm 1; 119, etc.). By lumping these together you create all manner of confusion and contradiction. Please read Psalm 1 and Psalm 119, both of which declare the perpetuity of the Law of the Lord. Then go to 1 John 3:4 and you will understand why "...whosoever sinneth transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law." John, writing well into the New Covenant was speaking of the moral law, "the Law of the Lord." See also Matt. 7:23 wherein Jesus warns about "iniquity," i.e., lawlessness.
Galatians 3:10-11
[SUP]10 [/SUP]For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Why is that? Why can't we just separate the law into "ceremonial" and moral and do away with the ceremonial and keep the moral?
Because ALL of it is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Christ has fulfilled ALL of it, the ceremonial AND the moral. Christ is the end of Righteousness for those who believe in Him.
Galatians 3:18-26
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
[SUP]23[/SUP]But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.