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Jesus set a perfect example for us to follow of how to practice Judaism by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah and as his followers we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way that he walked (1 John 2:6), so Galatians should not be interpreted as speaking against following Christ. In Psalm 119:142, the Torah is truth, and in John 17:17, God's word is truth so Paul asking in Galatians 3:1 who has bewitched them that they should not obey the truth should not interpreted as speaking against obeying truth.
Since "somebody" dishonestly thinks my post accuses God of sin, I will not continue to speak to that "somebody".
Works of the law absolutely refers to the Torah, the 5 Books of Moses.
The New Covenant still involves following the Torah (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27). None of God's covenants involve switching to a different religion.
It would contradictory for the Torah to something that our faith upholds and something that is not of faith, so "works of the law" can't refer to the Torah. God is trustworthy, therefore the Torah is also trustworthy (Psalm 19:7), so the way to trust in God is by obediently trusting in God's instructions, it would be contradictory to think that we should have faith in God but not in His instructions, and the position that God is a giver of untrustworthy instructions that are not of faith denies the trustworthiness and faithfulness of God.
God has not commanded anything that is not in accordance with walking in the Spirit, but rather God's character traits are the fruits of the Spirit and the purpose of the Torah is to teach us how to embody God's character traits, which is why the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey it (Ezekiel 36:26-27). In Romans 8:4-7, Paul contrasted those who walk in the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Torah.
Paul's problem with the Judaizers was not that they were teaching Gentiles how to follow Christ's example of obedience to the Torah but that they were wanting to require Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved. In Psalm 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Torah, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith, never as the result of circumcision.
We are commanded not to hate our brother (Leviticus 19:17) and if we correct understand what is being commanded by the 7th and 10th Commandments against committing adultery and coveting in our hearts, then we won't look at a married woman with lust in our hearts, so Jesus was not teaching anything that was brand new.
According to Deuteronomy 27-30, the way to be blessed is by relying on the Book of the Law while the way to be cursed is by not relying on it, so Galatians 3:10 should not be interpreted as Paul quoting from that passage in order to support a point that is arguing against that passage. Rather, the fact that cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything in the Book of the Law straightforwardly means that we should continue to do everything in the Book of the Law, which is why everyone who relies on "works of the law" instead comes under that curse.
Some people treat Christianity as if Jesus had come to start a different religion, but he came as the Jewish Messiah of Judaism in fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and he spent his ministry teaching his followers how to practice Jesus by setting a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Torah. In Acts 21:20, they were rejoicing that ten of thousands of Jews were coming to faith in Jesus who were all zealot for the Torah, which is in accordance with Titus 2:11-13, where Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so Jews coming to faith in Jesus were not ceasing to practice Judaism but were becoming zealous for it. This means that there was period of time between the resurrection of Jesus and the inclusion of Gentiles in Acts 10 that is estimated to be around 7-15 years during which all Christians were Torah observant Jews and that Christianity at its origin was the sect of Judaism that recognized Jesus as the Messiah. In Acts 24:14, Paul testified that according to The Way, which they call a sect, he continued to worship the God of their fathers, believing everything laid down by the Torah and written in the Prophets, and the religion of which The Way is a sect is Judaism. However, Christianity today has become a separate religion that is opposed to following Christ's example of obedience to the Torah.
Galatians 5
If God had saved the Israelites out of bond in Egypt in order to put them under bondage to the Torah, then it would be for bondage that God sets us free, however, Galatians 5:1 says that it is for freedom that God sets us free, so you are not correctly identifying what Paul was speaking against. In Psalm 119:142, the Torah is truth, and in John 8:31-36, it is the transgression of the Torah that puts us into bondage while the truth sets us free.
A servant of God can speak against obeying what God has commanded for an incorrect reason without speaking against obeying what God has commanded. If Paul had been speaking against circumcision for any reason, then Galatians 5:2 would mean that he caused Christ to be of no value to Timothy when he had him circumcised and Christ is of no value to roughly 70% of the men in the US. In Acts 15:1, men from Judea were wanting to require Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, that was never the reason for why God commanded circumcision, so the Jerusalem Council upheld the Torah by correctly ruling against requiring circumcision for an incorrect reason. In Exodus 12:48, God commanded for Gentiles to become circumcised in order to eat of the Passover lamb, so the Jerusalem Council should not be interpreted as ruling against Gentiles correctly obeying what God has commanded as if they had the authority to countermand God.
I have not spoke in favor of obeying either the Torah or "works of the law" in order to become righteous as the result. God wanted His children to repent and to return to obedience to the Torah all throughout the Bible and even Christ began his ministry with that Gospel message (Matthew 4:15-23), so it would be absurd to interpret this as Paul warning us against obeying God and warning that we will be cut off from Christ if we repent and believe the Gospel of Christ. It would also be absurd to interpret Psalm 119:29-30 as if he wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him how to fall from grace, so again you are not correctly identifying what Paul was speaking against.
The issue of the way to become righteous is different from the issue of what describes the behavior of the righteous. The only way to become righteous is through faith but what it means to be righteous is to be a doer of righteous works in obedience to the Torah (1 John 3:4-7, Isaiah 51:7). The Torah was never given as a way or earning our righteousness even as the result of having perfect obedience to it (Romans 4:1-5), but rather it was given to describe the behavior of the righteous as it describes the behavior of Christ, so it is what we get to experience by being given the gift of righteousness through faith. Paul also affirmed in Roman 2:13 that only the doers of the Torah will be declared righteous, so there is a reason why our righteousness requires us to choose to be doers of the Torah other than in order to earn it as the result, namely faith insofar as the faith by which we are declared righteous apart from works also upholds the Torah (Romans 3:28-31).
In 1 Corinthian 7:19, Paul said that circumcision counts for nothing and that what matters is obeying the commandments, so he equated obeying God's commandments with faith working through love. In Matthew 23:23, faith is one of the weightier matters of the Torah, and in Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Torah as being about how to love. Paul also said that circumcision has much value in every way (Romans 3:1-2) and that circumcision conditionally has value if we obey the Torah (Romans 2:25), so the value of circumcision is entirely derived from our obedience to God's commandments. Someone being physically circumcised is a sign of them having a circumcised heart, which is evident by their obedience to the Torah, so physical circumcision only has value insofar as what it is a sign of is true.
