Elin said:
Would that not also apply to someone who over and over has so strongly spoken about Jews living according to "Pharisee law" vs. Jews
living according to "God's law"?
If I may return to how I think
your concept of many thing scripture tells us is taking things to extreme so much it becomes as untruth,
lets look at what you say about law.
All of the instructions God gives about law are
instructions from God, and God is eternal.
Are we keeping in mind that what the Son says is
always instructions from God (Jn 12:49-50, 14:10,
7:16), and that the Son
is God?
You say there are differences in law that comes from God, but there really aren't. You know that what happened on the cross made changes, even to law, but none of those changes are fundamental to the basic law.
Are we keeping in mind the
radical difference regarding law which occurred with the New Covenant,
where salvation is by faith
alone (Eph 2:8-9),
no law involved (Ro 1:17, 3:22, 4:5, 13, Gal 2:16;
Php 3:9; Heb 11:7)?
And where sanctification is through the obedience of faith to the NT commands by the power of grace?
New Testament scripture talks a lot about what Amos, Isaiah, etc. teaches. It Isaiah, God is even saying that
God hated the sacrifices that God ordered in the first place. God ordered them as atonement through blood that represented Christ, and they were sacrificing in the same way idol worshippers were, in order to gain God's favor so God would send good crops. When the gospel was taken to the gentiles they were to be taught in the same way Isaiah teaches.
We need to revisit that. . .for offering sacrifices to get good crops was
not the issue.
God did
not hate his own
ordinance of sacrifices,
he hated the sacrifices which
they offered because they were offered in
hypocrisy,
with
no repentance for their sin.
When these things are taken to the extremes you insist are right, it becomes wrong
The issue in Isa was
not about going to extremes and offering sacrifices for the
wrong purposes,
the issue was offering sacrifices with
no repentance.
In Isa there was no going to extremes and making right things into wrong things.
There was only hypocrisy and no repentance.
We are told not to judge, for instance, those who honor the feasts.
Well, actually, Paul is writing to Christians in Colosse, who were a mixture of Gentiles and Jews.
The Christian Judaizers were judging the Christian Gentiles because they did not observe the
Jewish practices of the feasts and Sabbaths.
Paul reminds them to pay no attention to the Judaizers, because those practices were only
shadows,
not the reality themselves, which are found
only in Christ (Col 2:16-17), and they had the
reality
in Christ.
If Paul were speaking
to those observing the feasts, rather than
about those observing the feasts,
his comments about the feasts being only shadows and not realities themselves is out of context.
No, Paul was speaking
about the Judaizers judging the Gentiles because the Gentiles did not
observe the Jewish feasts and Sabbaths.
You can even learn the spiritual truths behind the feasts, we are told, and allowed
to not use them to express our understanding. But we are never told to ignore what God is saying,
even about the feasts.
Keeping in mind that the Son is also God, and whatever he says
is what God says.
You are free to observe the shadows if you choose.
However, it is not something the NT recommends:
"How is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles?
Do you wish to be enslaved to them all over again?
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
I fear for you, that I might have wasted my efforts on you." (Gal 4:9-11)
It's hard to understand why anyone would need the shadows when they possess the realities.
And it opens the door for the shadow to become more important than the reality itself. (Gal 4:9)
Just sayin'.
I study a lot, and most of it is covering the same material over and over. I really appreciated this. 
