[wmfights]

they have a fear of not doing the right thing, not keeping the right commandments, not doing enough "work", not doing enough penance, not saying enough "Hail Mary's" never being good enough. They live under the law.

I think it becomes a great tool to control folks, but it's not Scripture. Jesus sent Paul so we wouldn't fall back into the Judaic practices. The time for sacrifices, festivals, and the law was replaced with Grace. Jesus did all the heavy lifting, all we have to do is believe and the rest follows.

[editor-surveyor]

"The time for sacrifices, festivals, and the law was replaced with Grace"

Don't get tripped up walking through apples and oranges. - The efficacy of the sacrifice ceased when the veil was rent, but the testimony of the epistles is that the feasts continued. The apostles timed their voyages so that they would be in Jerusalem for Pesach, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. They never ceased, because they are literal appointments with God. Even in the gentile churches of Greece/Macedonia they are mentioned in the epistles.

[Quix]

Well put.