hmm. don't think so wadr
just as we might rely on a rap sheet, or the absence of one, as an indicator of someone's "righteousness" today imo
You indeed can use your God given freedom to disagree.
As for the rap sheet analogy no. Jews made sacrifices to God for the purpose of covering both their own sins already past and the sins of their families and they believed that simply whacking some animals was enough to justify their admittance to the kingdom.
Christ was pointing this out to the Jews who he was sent to. It was not the acts of the law that justified one before God it was the faith that God was going to send a prophet like unto Moses who would take away forever the sins of the world.
Psalm 40:
6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book
it is written of me (Christ),
8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law (what Law?)
is within my heart.
Psalm 51:
16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness....
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Mark 12:33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Hosea 6:6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Now read this NT reference on the subject of animal sacrifice which Christ came to address;
Hebrews 10:
1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
2Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
6with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
7Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”
8First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Look carefully at the law / laws that is being talked about if this was in reference to the 10 moral commandments then tell me how is "thou shalt not kill or thou shalt not covet a shadow of something coming? [The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming]
If there is no law there can be no sin and no need for this scripture;
Hebrews 10:
26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
I will let Micah finish this thought;
Micah 6:6-8“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?