We are told that under the new covenant much of the old covenant is outdated and of no use to us. The English translation uses the word obsolete for the old covenant. (Romans 8:10) By going back to the original Greek words and Hebrew thinking that describes the new covenant, they thought of something new in two ways, one was of something completely original and the other word we transcribe as new means something that is refreshed. The original wording of the new covenant description tells us that it is refreshing something old. Scripture tells us it makes the old of no use to us any longer.
The fact remains that something of the old testament can be ignored by us as not needed. The church uses that to get rid of the feasts, fleshly circumcision, diet restrictions, blood of animals, and some even use it to get rid of the law. It is often used as a reason not to listen to OT scripture. What do you think God means us to know about what the new covenant replaces?
My position is that God is Holy and His words, all of them, are Holy and nothing is cancelled that is Holy. Christ replaces the blood of animals used as a symbol of Christ, the Holy Spirit replaces the need to be reminded to let only clean things in our minds, we make a pledge to belong to the Lord by spirit now, not by cutting flesh. But those things naturally happened as a result of the new covenant, they were not things that God cancelled but happened as a result of things God added.
What are your thoughts and what do you base those thoughts on?
The New Covenant is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant.
You need to study types and antitypes, promise and fulfillment, body (or shadow) and substance. Types, promises, shadows and body point to antitypes, fulfillments, and substance. Judaizer nonsense falls apart upon careful studying. While Judaizers think they are the enlightened ones, they are not.
By the way I was a Judaizer, raised in a Judaizer family. I was baptized in a Judaizer organization, and spend at least a decade there, fully believing their juvenile teachings.
Regulations regarding physical circumcision, diet, and days are obsolete.
If you want to have your sexual organs mutilated, go ahead..there's no salvational value in it. I'm guessing you're a woman or some man who is already circumcised, though, or you wouldn't be so gung-ho about it. I can think of, oh, about two bazillion other worthy things to do than groaning and moaning for a month after a physical circumcision.
You are using a Judaizer claim concerning "renewed" rather than "new".
Jer 31:
31“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Notice that the New Covenant is "not like" the covenants made before. Therefore, the "renewed" explanation is not coherent.
The Mosaic Law is not in effect:
Acts 15
Galatians 3,4
2 Cor 3
Rom 7:1-6
Heb 7, 8
Eph 2:13-15
Read carefully.
For truly open-minded persons, I would recommend "Freedom in Christ" by Meno Kalisher. He is a Messianic Jew living in Israel and is well-acquainted with the reasoning of Judaizers.
By the way, when I use the word "Judaizer", I am talking about individuals who claim believers must keep the Mosaic Covenant stipulations. I am not talking about individuals who observe Sabbath, festivals, etcetera without claiming they are required. It is fine for those who observe them as a matter of preference to observe them, and believe in orthodox Christian doctrine such as the Trinity and justification by faith alone.