THE LAW OF CHRIST
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1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 2Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 3Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith— 6just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
7Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 8And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justifyc the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” 9So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
10For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” 12But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” 13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— 14so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirite through faith.
It’s adorable that you think “doom” comes from rejecting the Ten Commandments when Paul literally says “the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ” and then immediately adds “we are no longer under a schoolmaster” (Gal 3:24–25), meaning your threat‑meter is about as calibrated as a broken smoke alarm; and your claim that OT prophets condemned the wicked “in hopes they would repent” is cute, because the text says “I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people” (Isa 65:2) and “they refused to take correction” (Jer 5:3), which means the prophets weren’t motivational speakers but witnesses against hardened hearts; and your dramatic ultimatum — “follow Jesus or live in rebellion” — would land better if Jesus Himself hadn’t said “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (John 14:15), which is wild because He then defines His commandments as faith in Him and love for one another (John 13:34; 1 John 3:23), not “re‑adopt Sinai or perish”; and the funniest part is you trying to weaponize the Decalogue while ignoring the fact that the ministry engraved on stones is called ‘the ministry of death’ (2 Cor 3:7) and ‘the ministry of condemnation’ (3:9), so your whole doom‑speech is basically Paul’s Exhibit A of someone clinging to the very covenant God replaced; but yes, please continue announcing people’s destruction while quoting the wrong covenant — the apostles would be fascinated watching you preach Moses to solve what only Christ’s Spirit can cure (Rom 8:3–4).
No, you really didn't. You are the master of the red herring fallacy. Instead of answering, you change the subject.