[aimhigh]

Paul changed nothing

Your post is good. Paul didn't change the law, he wrote that WE have changed, and are set free from the law. The Jerusalem Council said the same thing. I'll trust the Jerusalem Council over any modern Messianic.

[PapaNew]

Actually nothing changed the law. What changed was God's covenant with man upon the death of His Son, Jesus Christ (Heb. 8:6-13). The Bible says the law is "holy, just, and good" (Rom 7:12). The problem is with man - he can't keep the law and was never meant to. The law came about to expose man to his absolute shortcomings. "Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith" [not works] (Gal. 3:24). The problem with the law is it can't fix anyone (Heb 7:19), it can only condemn.

Jesus (not Paul) changed everything, not by abolishing the law, but by fulfilling it for us (Matt 5:17). We are no longer under the law (Rom 6:14). Jesus did what we could never do. So becasue of Jesus, we are righteous, accepted, forgiven and victorious, not because of our works, but because of His works. Hallelujah! THAT is the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Shout it from the mountain tops.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “WE have changed, and are set free from the law.” <<

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Really? - I thought that Paul was the author of

Romans 2:

[12] For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
[13] (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified

>> “The Jerusalem Council said the same thing” <<

Oh? Maybe your Bible lacks Acts 15:

[19] Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
[20] But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
[21] For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

Now what was that that Moses wrote?