And it isn't "a vehicle to salvation" today because G-d did not give man a "vehicle to salvation" but commandments to repair and complete the creation. That is still man's duty today.
Most chr*stians, regardless of denomination, insist that the Torah has been "done away with" (and quote Paul to prove it). My point is that at least the antinomian "faith only" people are more consistent than those churches (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Arminian, restorationist, mormon, etc.) who hold that the Torah was explicitly abolished in order to pray it merely with another set of laws, rituals, and commandments.
Matt 5:17-2017 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."