Then why does GOD keep telling us to KEEP the commandments. To obey them. Are you suggesting that God says things that he doesn't mean?
Deuteronomy 12
32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
But the law was never given by God with the expectaion that man could ever keep it.
Then why does GOD keep telling us to KEEP the commandments. To obey them. Are you suggesting that God says things that he doesn't mean?
God's knowledge that we couldn't completely keep His Law in no way invalidates His requirement that we keep it ...
... any more than knowing that people will violate speed limits invalidates the posting of such speed limits.
God knew that the result of the giving of the Law was that it would be imperfectly (0 - 99%) obeyed. The transgression of the Law God calls sin. God has instituted penalties for the trangression of the Law (just as there are penalties for exceeding the speed limit).
Unfortunately, for us, the penalty for sin (i.e. the transgression of the Law) is death.Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.Fortunately, God, in His grace, sent His only Son to die in our place, so that the penalty (of death) for the transgression of the Law would be met.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ JESUS our Lord.
When we place our belief and trust in JESUS and His sacrifice (to pay the penalty for our sin), we are freed from having to pay that penalty (of death) ourselves.