Animal life, relationships, and even inanimate resources illustrate many important aspects of the kingdom of God.  Satan is represented by a lion and so is God. The law of God/Moses is many things, perhaps reflecting the law’s functions deep in the operations in Israel-Judah.  The law is the truth, an educator, a light, a library of knowledge, but also a prison, a corrector and punisher of the impudent, but the outcomes of these functions are not prominent in Israel’s perverse history.  Even with such an illustrious resume the law is never the agent or channel of righteousness, despite the gallant and creative effort of Psalm 119’s writer(s)

Venom, numbness and unbelief

There are some believers whose consciences are so burned out that they deny that the law is an agent for making sin loom larger than it really is.  They also claim to find righteousness in observing the law, as if Christ has nothing to do with sin and divine justice.  James’ characterization of the law as a participant in liberty is unfortunate, seeing that he makes no reference to the liberty brought about by the Lord and his opinion of kingdom or royal law seems to exclude his famous brother’s passion and glory.

And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

Galatians 5:3

It is just pure venom that is affecting the crew that wants to be more Jewish than anyone else.  Their minds are numb, their eyes are dim and they are in a stupour that prevents them from perceiving what God is offering.  There is no division of the law into moral and ritual conventions.  One would have to make the Decalogue a hybrid constitution, (a) pushing a holy day clearly listed as a ritual and festival in Leviticus, (b) human ideals like the 5th command and (c) condemning everyone with the other 8 commands.

No one is getting justified by observing the law

because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20)

It has to be a kind of insensitivity spell that results in people taking pride in knowing sin.  

• Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth. (Psalms 119:142)
• Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law; (Psalms 94:12)
• For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And reproofs for discipline are the way of life (Proverbs 6:23)
• “For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 2:7)

Hurtful, harmful, and suicidal

Obedience in full splendour has to be more than a Ten Commandment loyalty.  A person can sit at home perfectly idle, The typical division of the law into binding and non-binding falls into the ditch as soon as the fact emerges that no human being has complied with everything the law says.  

It is folly to insert Christ into the fabulously duplicitous narratives of the sons of Israel.  It is extreme depravity for Christians to adapt the priorities of ancient prophets, theocratic kingdoms for charting the course of the kingdom of grace and the Church.

Obeying the Bible is a terroristic claim

People who press others to obey the Bible have forgotten that God is a person, not a thing.  There is no “thing” from which we derive God’s approval.  It is God himself who provides peace and light.  You cannot replace David’s Lord with a set of instructions and try to make salvation and righteousness come from your own behaviour (commission or omission).  How many people have been mesmerized by a rabbi conflating Messianic revelation with Judaism? Very many.  The church is suffering from delusions of self-sufficiency.  The majority of believers have disconnected themselves from the foundation Christ laid.  The testimony of the apostles and the thunder (the things that must remain undocumented) of the writers of the New Testament are the things that slip by.  What beside Pharisee, hypocrite and moron can we call a person who asserts that God gave Adam and Eve the Ten Commandments in Eden? To fully disengage from the heavenly help that the Holy Spirit brings to believers’ lives we are be8 urged to subscribe to the idea that the Sinai Covenant was in sway before war broke out in heaven.  Sheesh and goodness gracious, man!

The sting of death is sin, and the power (Greek, dunamis, δύναμις) of sin is the law;