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Torah is a blessing that we can and must keep.
Paul and Peter both said the False Law of the Pharisees was hung on the cross.
Do you know something they don’t know?
No but I may need to remind you of something you have forgotten.... Colossians 2:13-23! (context is important as the verses hang together)
You are referring to Colossians 2:14 but you can’t understand verse 14 without verse 13... and then v15-23
“When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross! Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.”
He took away the eternal death penalty by forgiving our sins incurred by our sinning against God as well as disarming the social co-ercive powers of those who couldn’t keep the pure law themselves but insisted that others follow complex formulas, or rituals or to hold certain days sacred. The whole chapter actually stands against your views of how you think Christians should approach Christianity and of the “various laws” we are supposed to keep. I’ll bet you don’t even keep them perfectly...I just think that if you live in such a mind set, then it must be misery for you to know that if you get one thing wrong, Yehoshua will squeeze you like a grape(/s)!(Now I don’t think he’s out to squeeze you like a grape but as Lion of the Tribe of Judah, he just wants to rub his mane against you purring and to lick you with the tongue of his grace!)
Paul and Peter both said the False Law of the Pharisees was hung on the cross.
“Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”
It would seem to me; if you want to use the above verse to bolster your opinion of just what 'law' is being talked about; then you should ALSO use the verse that preceded it; namely...
9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. (NOT keeping Torah!)
Paul and Peter both said the False Law of the Pharisees was hung on the cross.
Paul used the phrase “works of the law” six times and only within Romans and Galatians. Here’s the full list within context:
For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20).
For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law (Rom 3:28).
Yet we know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified (Gal 2:16).
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? (Gal 3:2)
Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? (Gal 3:5)
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, ‘Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them’ (Gal 3:10).
Now then; if you are going to claim that these verses refer to the EXTRA stuff that Phariseeism added to the LAW; it had better be REALLY convincing.