So you don't "have to keep it" but if you don't you're in rebellion and cursed? You speak with a forked tongue.
Its not fork tongued to say that no one is forced to keep His commandments. Its a personal choice that comes with pre-set consequences thoroughly documented in the Word.
You don't get to have your cake and eat it too. You can either be under the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, you don't get to have it both ways. Dead letter or Bread of Life. Pick.
You are under the impression that the "old covenant" and the renewed covenant are separate rather than a planned and connected continuation -- a software update if you will, that was preset for after the resurrection.
This is the problem with the "Old Testament" / "New Testament" nomenclature. It lends to deception. If it were properly titled, the "Old Testament" would be titled "The Law, The Prophets, & The Writings". The "New Testament" would be titled the Renewed Covenant, or the Gospel (Message) & the Epistles (letters).
True titling would eliminate much misunderstanding.
The Bread of Life is the Living Word. But what Word is He living?
You misunderstand how we as commandment keepers live out the Renewed Covenant. We live it the same way the disciples did after the resurrection-- by guarding and keeping the commandments of life. Walking the Way that Jesus walked, since he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and he kept the commandments faithfully in his obedience to the Father.
If we are "under the old" because we obey the Word, which in it Yah tells us many times to observe to keep it forever throughout our generations, then is that also your assertion of the disciples after the resurrection? In all the wisdom Jesus imparted to them as they walked with him, why did they continue to keep the commandments after he rose? What are they missing that you know? Because you wouldn't even have what you profess as the New Covenant without their writings and Paul's writings. And again, the very men who wrote the writings you use to substantiate disregarding the Law, themselves kept the Law. Where is the disconnect then?
There is no law established in the "New Testament". Everything after the Law (Torah) is a witness to or testimony of it. Even Jesus himself and his ministry is a witness to and testimony of the Torah & the Prophets.
Hebrew 10: 5-7, 26-29
5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
What is the knowledge of the Truth? See Psalm 119: 142, or that whole chapter. See John 17:17.
What is sin? See 1 John 3:4.
Psalm 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
May Yah have mercy on us all. Because I received what
@Earth_is- said about exalting oneself and downing others, demonstrated by Messiah's parable. Please forgive me the way I have worded things because I was guilty of that. I too have fallen short of the glory of Yah.
Most of all, those of us who believe in the validity and perpetuity of Yah's commandments, we seek to win souls for the Kingdom. We all have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.