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Originally Posted by Humble Bricklayer
You cannot wrench the two greatest commandments in the LAW and break them free from the other 611 laws (even if you intend to keep them by the power of the Holy Spirit). You can call these commandments "moral" or you can call them "spiritual" (and they are that, I don't disagree), but they are still bound together in a single package called the LAW. And if you're going to extract them from out of the Old Testament and bring them into the New, then you must of necessity bring along with them the remaining 611...and then you shall find yourself in the same dilemma that the Galatians fell into over the similar issue of circumcision. They were in danger of "falling from grace" and becoming "debtors to do the whole law" (Gal 5: 3-4).
...because the LAW is indivisible and irreducible.
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I think that I understand your points better. Initially I thought that you meant that we (the readers) must keep all the law, now I see you saying that we (like the Galatians) can't keep all the law, and thus shouldn't try to keep parts of it to the exclusion of others.
There's a lot there, actually, and in seizing upon the wrong sentence or phrase, and forcing it through our mental model, may cause us to contrast ourselves with something that's not there. Which, as I said, probably happens a lot.