Well; I sure cannot disagree with this!
This is what happens when you depart from Torah. Once you allow that we are not really obligated to keep all the commandments you begin to drift; imperceptibly at first. Then one day you, and your culture end up 180 degrees in opposition to the plain words of Scripture and you ask yourself “ how in the hell did I get here?,” God emphatically requires us to “observe all these commandments” because his Law is a living breathing organic whole. When you abrogate one of the commandments you weaken the whole. This is precisely the charge Jesus laid on some of the leaders in his day. This does not mean that we must keep the Torah to be saved. But is does mean that if we are true talmidim (disciples), we will keep it. Jesus exemplified it and expected all his followers to do so as well. It’s time for the SBC, and Christianity at large to admit that it made a huge mistake and begin the process of true teshuvah (repentance) that will repair the breach between Christianity and its historical, biblical roots in the revelation of Sinai.
It is - in terms of “learning” - somewhat like the way the Karate Kid was taught.
Many of the Karate motions his education began with seemed nonsensical, mechanical, repetitive and, at the time “of no use”. His “master” had him doing chores for him, but with demanding ways in which each chore was to be done. Being still “blind” to the deeper truth of Karate, the kid did not understand, at first.
Later, when he had to put his learned skills into practice did the importance of the “basic training” he received make sense, and paid off.
True Christianity is somewhat like that for children and for newcomers. The fullness of understanding it, and seeing it’s real positive effects, comes with living it, not merely being taught it. And that can take time.
Knowing how to tell young people, and newcomers “you will understand in time” is sometimes the hardest part of teaching successfully. As the teaching goes on, obeying the teaching comes first, in order for the teaching to be grasped completely, in time. Just like the experience of the Karate Kid.
"What do you mean 'US?'; paleface"
--Tonto
Well; I sure cannot disagree with this!