Keeping the WAY of the law of Moses, and for reason of justification, and not upholding the eternal requirements of the law of Moses through faith and obedience by the Spirit of God is legalism.
Both camps must be addressed with Truth.
The Truth is Moses law was added UNTIL the Seed should come.
The truth is the WAY of the law of Moses was added until the appearing of Christ, not the eternal requirements of God found in the law of Moses. Hebrews illustrates this for us.
The TRUTH is the Laws of God that Abraham walked in are eternal and need to be LITERALLY upheld today as well.
And when you do that you end up upholding that exact same truth, not a different truth, in the law of Moses. Not truth upheld in the WAY of the law of Moses, but truth upheld in the new WAY of faith in Christ and obedience according to the fruit of the Spirit.
As I've been asking, if that's not true, show me.
You have to emphasize the laws that Abraham walked in and kept are Gods laws that are eternal.
You have to show that even if the law of Moses is laid aside, [though the eternal Laws within did not, because they are Gods Laws that Abraham walked 430 years before the law of Moses].
I've been doing that. You haven't been 'hearing' it.
The law of Moses is where we see the meat and potatos of what Abraham knew is written down for us to learn from. The law is the revelation of God's righteous standard. It ends all debate and brings all men into account for their actions.
Stop arguing that Moses law didn't get replaced or set aside.
Start hearing what I'm saying!
The WAY of the law of Moses got replaced. The REQUIREMENTS that way served--the requirements Abraham and others served--did not. How can you possibly argue with that? Except that your stuck in the indoctrination of the church that won't let you see the Biblical difference between what the law of Moses sought to uphold and the way the law of Moses itself said they were to be upheld.
Somehow the exact same truth before the law of Moses is no longer the exact same truth and has 'vanished away' when it got written down in the law of Moses. What 'vanished away' was the WAY the law of Moses said to uphold those truths. Read Hebrews!
That is where you will lose 99% of the people you are trying to help.
The other ditch is legalism. Legalism teaches physical circumcision, external literal Sabbath keeping as specified in Moses law, feast days...
...for the purpose of being justified.
The only people I'll lose is the people that can't grasp the difference between the requirements of the law of Moses (blood sacrifice, circumcision, etc.) and the WAY the law of Moses said to uphold those requirements in the old WAY of temple, priesthood, sacrifice, and written word.
The church needs to know the requirements did not go away, only the way to uphold them
in the way of the first covenant went away. They need to know this every time someone says 'I don't need to do that because I'm not under the law anymore', not knowing that it is not the eternal rules of God that went away, just the old WAY of fulfilling those rules that went away.
I know this indoctrination that closes the ears of the church at any mention of law whatsoever is difficult to overcome, but the answer is not to say we now follow this non-descript, vauge sense of 'rules' that was known before those rules were written down for us. We know most of what Abraham and others submitted to
because of the the law of Moses. We know that, not so we can keep the letter of the WAY of the law of Moses, but so we can uphold the eternal principles of service and worship of the law of Moses that pre-Mosaic saints upheld by their faith in God.