You are correct - the Mosaic Covenant and its outworking - Mosaic Law has not been annulled.
However, Jesus Christ fulfilled the righteous requirements of that Covenant, that Law, for us on the cross.
If you accept this then the requirements of the Mosaic Covenant are not binding on you.
If one rejects Jesus Christ and what He achieved on the cross then, the consequences of the Law are upon you.
Paul states very clearly in Galatians 3:24-25:
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.Gal 3:24-25
Christians are not bound under the Law, the Mosaic Covenant has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
Paul never describes the Mosaic Law as evil or wrong in any - but he does put it into context:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”[a] 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Rom 7:7:-12
Carefully read the whole passage - Paul is stating that all the law can do is bring death.
But something has changed through the advent of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross:
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[h] who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. Rom 3:21-31
Read Romans 3:21-31 carefully.
If one is Christian one is believing that one is justified (a precise legal term meaning not guilty) by grace through faith that Jesus Christ was indeed a propitiation (a payment in full) for our sins.
Not only is righteous requirement of the Law fulfilled but a new Covenant is birthed, one that Paul refers to here as the "law of faith." Rom 3:27. In other words it is not the law of Moses that justifies (it can only condemn), but the law of faith - salvation by grace through faith in the sufficiency of the blood sacrifice made by Christ Jesus.
So the question remains:
Does one place oneself under the Mosaic Covenant - and receive condemnation and death under its legal statutes; OR
Does one place one's faith in Jesus Christ and receive forgiveness and justification for sins and thus salvation by grace through faith?
However, Jesus Christ fulfilled the righteous requirements of that Covenant, that Law, for us on the cross.
If you accept this then the requirements of the Mosaic Covenant are not binding on you.
If one rejects Jesus Christ and what He achieved on the cross then, the consequences of the Law are upon you.
Paul states very clearly in Galatians 3:24-25:
24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.Gal 3:24-25
Christians are not bound under the Law, the Mosaic Covenant has been fulfilled in Christ Jesus.
Paul never describes the Mosaic Law as evil or wrong in any - but he does put it into context:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”[a] 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. Rom 7:7:-12
Carefully read the whole passage - Paul is stating that all the law can do is bring death.
But something has changed through the advent of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross:
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all[h] who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law. Rom 3:21-31
Read Romans 3:21-31 carefully.
If one is Christian one is believing that one is justified (a precise legal term meaning not guilty) by grace through faith that Jesus Christ was indeed a propitiation (a payment in full) for our sins.
Not only is righteous requirement of the Law fulfilled but a new Covenant is birthed, one that Paul refers to here as the "law of faith." Rom 3:27. In other words it is not the law of Moses that justifies (it can only condemn), but the law of faith - salvation by grace through faith in the sufficiency of the blood sacrifice made by Christ Jesus.
So the question remains:
Does one place oneself under the Mosaic Covenant - and receive condemnation and death under its legal statutes; OR
Does one place one's faith in Jesus Christ and receive forgiveness and justification for sins and thus salvation by grace through faith?
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