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Our conscience and in Christians the Holy Spirit convince us of sin. Not the Mosaic Law that gives the Iron Age instructions about slavery, about divorce, about "eye for eye", about stoning people, about what to eat or to hate enemies. Such instructions are obsolete for us today and could actually be against Christian teachings, obviously.
Gal 3:24-26
Someone who disregarded everything that their schoolmaster taught them after they graduated would be missing the whole point of a schoolmaster. God's Word leads us to God's Word's Word made flesh because it is His instructions for how to know him, but it does not lead us to him so that we can then reject everything he is and go back to being doers of what it reveals to be wickedness. In Acts 3:25-26, Jesus was sent as the promised seed to bless us by turning us from our wickedness.
In Galatians 3:25-29, every aspect of being children of God, through faith, in Christ, and children of Abraham and heirs to the promise is directly connected with being doers of the Law of God. In 1 John 3:4-10, those who are not doers of righteous works in obedience to the Law of God are not children of God, and in Romana 8:4-14, Paul contrasted those who are born of the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Law of God. In Matthew 23:23, Christ said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law of God. In 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked. In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham then they would be doers of the same works as him.
Yes but after we graduate by coming to Jesus we are no longer under the schoolmaster.
We fulfil the law of Christ by walking in the Spirit.
The way to come to God's Word made flesh is not by rejecting God's Word. Christ fulfilled the Law of God by teaching his followers how to correctly obey it by word and by example and the way to come to him is not by refusing to follow what he taught.
In Romans 10:5-8, Paul referred to Deuteronomy 30 as the word of faith that we proclaim in regard to the righteousness that is by faith proclaiming that the Law of God is not too difficult for us to obey and that obedience to it brings life and a blessing while disobedience brings death and a curse, so chose life! Deuteronomy 32:46-47, the Law of God is our very life. In Proverbs 3:18, it is a Tree of Life for all who take hold of it. In Proverbs 6:23, for the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life. In Revelation 22:14, those who kept God's commandments are given the right to eat from the Tree of Life. In Luke 10:25-28, Jesus affirmed that the way to inherit eternal life is by obeying the greatest two commandments. In Matthew 19:17, Jesus said that the way to have eternal life is by obeying God's commandments. In Romans 2:6-7, Paul said that those who persist in doing good will be given eternal life. In Romans 6:19-23, we are no longer to present ourselves as slaves to impurity, lawlessness, and sin, but are now to present ourselves as slaves to God and to righteousness leading to sanctification, and the goal of sanctification is eternal life in Christ, which is the gift of God, so being a doer of the Law of God is His gift of eternal life.
God's Word is His instructions for how to have faith in God's Word made flesh. We embody what we believe to be true about God through our works, such as with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through his works, so everyone who is a doer of the same works as James has faith in Jesus. In other words, the way to believe in God is by embodying His character traits. For example, by being a doer of good works in obedience to the Law of God we are embodying God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to God (Matthew 5:16), and by embodying God's goodness we are also embodying the belief that God is good. Likewise, the way to believe that God is compassionate is by being compassionate (Luke 6:36), the way to believe that God is holy is by being a doer of His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so forth. This is exactly the same as the way to believe in the Son, who is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of God. This is also why the Bible frequently connects our belief in God with our obedience to Him, such as with Revelation 14:12 where those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God's commandments.
Reminds me of something else in Matthew...
Jesus set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of God, so he was much more zealous for obedience to it than the Pharisees were and it is absurd to interpret that verses as Jesus criticizing them teaching people to do what God commanded them to do.
Then why do you reject it when it says we are no longer under the law?
The law was a yoke that the Jews could not bear:
To obey the law of the spirit...not the letter of the law
That would be an absurd interpretation. That isn't what's happening here.
Is it sin to hate your enemy or to love your enemy? Because the Old Testament law taught to hate your enemy, but Jesus taught to love your enemy.
Where in OT told hate the enemy? Only obey the The commandment of God,not Only the ten commandment of God.
In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Law of Moses was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom/Grace, which Paul also taught based on the Law of Moses (Acts 14:21-22, 20:24-25, 28:23). Christ also set a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to the Law of Moses and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22), that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:6), and to be imitators of Paul as he is of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). So both Jesus and Paul taught to follow the Law of Moses by word and by example and I don't see how someone can follow them instead of following what they taught.
The man is blind .
Sure, for example when He left go the woman caught in adultery who would have to be stoned to death according to the Law of Moses or when He taught to not apply the "an eye for an eye" from the Law of Moses or when He cancelled the "hate your enemy" from the Law of Moses, just like that. Or when He cleaned all food and basically all external causes of uncleanness from the Law of Moses or when He cancelled the rules for divorce from the Law of Moses...
Did Paul teach circumcision? Yes.
