I notice that nary a scripture is quoted in your replies. With all due respect, I’ll take God’s word over that of any human; it is clear what He says.
Well, friend, please DO go to your scripture and DO look on how Christ actually carried on, “clear” as you say!
All the “Don’t” commands He treats, He recasts as “Do” commands.
And that’s how the spirit of Christ plays out.
Think that over, go ahead and read your scripture and see if you do not agree with me with that much.
You have to “DIVIDE” the word rightly... that’s in there, “DIVIDE”... now thinking about what DIVIDE means, it says you have to apply the right thing to the right circumstance. You’re one of the many who toss the bible into a blender called “utilitarianism.” Worldly utilitarianism.
By the way I did quote scripture I just did it in line. Like in fact all New Testament writers do... look at how that book is written. Please tell truth about me. It’s easy to complain about the negative. Can you trace the positive? If it is not yet adequate, the Lord will forgive, but we are dealing with a positive Christ. In Him every promise is yes. He never said that in Him every prohibition is no.
More examples, Do not Kill becomes Give Life! Honor your Father and Mother expands to honor them and everyone else in whatever way appropriate and possible. Do not Steal becomes Be Generous! Honor the Sabbath Day becomes honor every day. Do not commit Adultery becomes have sex as appropriate, in a wholesome manner (i.e. between committed spouses)! All of it being done for the joyful glory and honor of God, too. Expand your categories... and see if the scripture both in word and in tone backs me up here. Go look, the scripture is waiting for you. It’s exactly what you would expect out of what the Bible calls a “Life Giving Spirit.”
I.e. the things that needed commands that said “NO” simply become unthinkable. Who’d want to do those things which needed commands saying “NO” when firmly in Christ?
Now, back to our scheduled earth. There WILL be Christly participation in earthly ceremony in the future. In fact Gentiles will want to be Jews (which explains some Old Testament prophecy nicely). One funny thing I note about the debacle of the end times... not one complaint about HUMAN laws being disobeyed. Lots of killing, idolatry, fornication, sorcery, enslavements... things that grate against God’s grain... not one mention of HUMAN laws.
There is only one other tack we can take here, friend, and that is to drop the whole idea of Christ as too riddled with inconsistency to be credible. I ain’t doing that however. I’ve empirically proven Him to match up with bible promise. “You have the words of eternal life... to whom else should I go?”