The Jerusalem council in Acts 15 concluded that the gentiles were under no obligation to keep their jewish law.
No, they didn't. And The Torah (The Law) isn't "Jewish" law either. It is The Law given to us by The King Ruler of the Universe.
Deuteronomy 29:9-15
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this Covenant, and
DO them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the "I AM" your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,
29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
29:12 That thou shouldest enter into Covenant with the "I AM" thy God, and into His Oath, which the "I AM" thy God maketh with thee this day:
29:13 That He may establish thee to day for a people unto Himself, and [that] He may be unto thee a God, as He hath said unto thee, and as He hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob/Israel.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this Covenant and this Oath;
29:15 But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the "I AM" our God, and
also with [him] that [is]
not here with us this day [thy children, in PERPETUITY]:
How could a group of men decide who should obey God and who shouldn't? And what did they all actually agree upon?
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the [other] Apostles answered and said,
We ought to obey God rather than men.
The law plus Christ is the same gospel that Paul had rebuked in Galatians. If you rebuild what Christ had fulfilled and completed you are essentially making one out to be transgressors all over again, because under the law there can only be sin.
But that isn't what Paul rebuked in Galatians, is it? It's what most "Christians"
mistakenly believe they can use as an excuse to continue to sin (break The Law) with impunity. No wonder Peter warned that the unlearned and unstable would wrest the simplest concepts in Scripture
TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION (
2 Pet. 3:16), which is exactly what you're doing.
It's really this simple: if we obey God and His Law, we are His Children.
If we obey Satan and his ministers, i.e. the priests, pastors, rabbis and imams, etc. of his organized religions, then we are his children.
We are the children of Whom/whom we choose to obey.
SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW (
1 John 3:4).
THE WAGES OF SIN ARE DEATH (
Ezek. 18:4,
20,
Rom. 6:23)
Reread what you've just quoted from Galatians understanding the following basic precepts:
1) that "the works of The Law" that Paul referred to are the animal sacrifices found in the ordinances, which were replaced with self-sacrifice exactly as both Christ and Paul said ("self" crucifixion
DAILY -
Matt. 10:38,
Mark 8:34,
Luke 9:23 and
Gal. 2:20);
2) "the works of The Law" that Paul referred to could not possibly be referring to doing good (Godly) works, as defined in The Law, because Paul would have been contradicting himself (and the rest of Scripture, e.g.
Eph. 2:8-10); and
3) "being under The Law" is a direct reference to being under THE CURSE of The Law,
WHICH IS THE PENALTY CLAUSE FOR NOT KEEPING THE LAW (Deut. 28:15-68);
If you tell others to keep the law, you are a debtor to do the whole law yourself and are not able to pick and choose which areas you desire to keep. In fact if you stumble in one area you are just as much a transgressor as someone who fails in multiple aspects of keeping the law. There is only sin and condemntation under the law. As Paul writes in Romans the law works wrath.
Again, everything you've just said is based upon
MISUNDERSTANDING the letters of Paul, and assuming that they contradict or supersede the teachings of Christ.
How can we be absolutely certain of that? By comparing your claims to what it actually says in Scripture.
1 John 2:1-7
2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2:2 And he is the atonement for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
2:3
And hereby we do know that we know him, IF we keep His Commandments.
2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth NOT His Commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is NOT in him.
2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
2:6 He that saith
he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old Commandment which ye had
from the Beginning. The old Commandment is The Word which ye have heard from the Beginning.
1 John 3:4-10
3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also The Law: for
sin is the transgression of The Law.
3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our (past) sins; and in him is no sin.
3:6
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that
doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (Christ) is righteous.
3:8
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the Beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
3:9
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:
whosoever DOETH NOT righteousness is NOT of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 5:2-3
5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and
KEEP His Commandments.
5:3 For
THIS is the love of God,
that we KEEP His Commandments: and His Commandments are NOT grievous.
How can you as someone who doesnt keep the law tell other Christians to keep the law?
Why would you assume another isn't keeping The Law? And why shouldn't everyone be told to keep The Law as Christ
COMMANDS us to do?
Anyone who doesn't come to their senses and learn to keep The Law is going to burn. There will be absolutely
NO exceptions, as we've been warned for thousands of years.
Malachi 4
4:1 For, behold, the Day cometh, that shall burn like an oven; and
all the proud, yea, and
all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the "I AM" Lord of hosts, that it shall leave of them neither
root nor
branch (nothing).
4:2 But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be
ashes under the soles of your feet in The Day that I shall do [this], saith the "I AM" Lord of hosts.
4:4
Remember ye and return to The Law of Moses My servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for
all Israel, [with] the Statutes and Judgments.
4:5 Behold, I will send you Eli
JAH the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the "I AM" (
Sura 43:61):
4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse (see verse 4:1 above for details of the curse).
Revelation 20:12-15
20:12 And I saw the "Dead", small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another Book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life: and
the "Dead" were judged out of those things which were written in the Books, according to their works.
20:13 And the "sea" gave up the "Dead" which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and
they were judged every man according to their WORKS.
20:14 And death and hell were cast into the "Lake of Fire". This is the second death.
20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the "Lake of Fire".
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with Fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
1 John 2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth NOT His Commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is NOT in him.
John 14:15
If ye love me, KEEP my COMMANDments.
John 14:21-24
14:21
He that hath my COMMANDments, and KEEPETH them, HE it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
14:22 Jude saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he will obey my words: and my Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
14:24
He that loveth me not obeyeth not my sayings: and the Truth which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.