So you hold to a two covenant reading of the scripture.
The old covenant (Exodus 24) which was a conditional covenant based on the book of the covenant.
Which was sprinkled with blood of a bull to seal Israel into that covenant.
The New Covenant is an unconditional covenant between Jesus and His Father. The New Covenant
was also sealed with the blood of Jesus Christ. A divine covenant.
Can you see the fulfillment of the old covenant by the New Covenant?
Most are blind and cannot distinguish the profound difference in these two covenants.
Can you quote where the Bible states that the New Covenant fulfills the Mosaic Covenant? Or where the Bible speaks about the Mosaic Covenant as something that can be fulfilled? Or where the Bible states that the New Covenant is an unconditional covenant?
God's character traits are eternal, so there is a reality that is true about the way to embody God's character traits that was true before God made any covenants with man, which has been revealed through His covenants, and which is eternal and cumulatively true regardless of which covenant someone is under. For example, God's righteousness is eternal (Psalm 119:142), therefore all of God's righteous laws are also eternal (Psalms 119:160), so if anyone wants to know God through embodying His righteousness, then they will consider any instructions that God has ever done to be cumulatively valid regardless of which covenant they are under, if any. For example, being a doer of charity was a way to embody God's righteousness before God made any covenants with man, so that is an eternally valid way to know God and there could be never be a covenant where it is sinful to be a doer of charity.
How can a Gentile be under the law without living in Israel and getting circumcised?
That is what the law (God) tells us is the entry requirement for the old covenant.
I hope your not going to contradict the written words of God in the O.T?
The Bible can speak against Gentiles being required to become circumcised for incorrect reasons such as in order to become saved without speaking against being required to become circumcised for the reasons for why God commanded it, such as in order to eat of the Passover lamb (Exodus 12:48). Nothing in the NT should be interpreted as speaking against obeying the words of God or followed instead of the words of God.
I perform the "deeds of the flesh" according to Paul.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,
enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness,
carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those
who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gentiles cannot use a statement such as "sin is lawlessness" because Gentiles were never in covenant
to obey the law.
I was not circumcised on the eighth day.
I was not raised under the law nor were the Romans and the Egyptians.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom/Grace, so what do you think would be the point of spreading the Gospel as a light to Gentiles if Gentiles have no need to repent from doing what it reveals to be sin?
Poor Soyeong was dead in sin before she even thought about trying to obey the law.
That's the problem with the law; the law kills all of it's adherents.
In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Law of Moses is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so choose life!
Surely you can see that God is not writing "do not covet your neighbor's oxen on your heart?".
Soyeong, what is God really going to write on our hearts and you don't need the scripture
to know this.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves
are taught by God to love one another.
Why would there be an exception for that? Everything in the Law of Moses is either in regard to how to love God and our neighbor, which is why Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-40 that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them, so the position that we should obey the greatest two commandments is also the position that we should obey the commandments that hang on them. Someone who was correctly living in obedience to the greatest two commandments would be indistinguishable from someone who was correctly living in obedience to the rest of the Mosaic Law because they would both be following the same example that Jesus set for us to follow.
