THOSE UNDER THE TORAH ARE UNDER A CURSE?

It angered me when I think how a sister's conscience has been disturbing her since a few years ago because of the flawed teachings that have been floating around.

      Upon reading two (read this and this) of the earlier blog posts that I had painstakingly put together, she dropped me a message: 

Yeah, I also starting to get confuse. aa few years ago, somebody shared that we too must follow the feast of Israel as Christians. I was quite lost. Am I sinning against the Lord? Now I am so relieved.  I dont have too. Thanks Stephen

        This is exactly what Paul has stressed to the Colossian Gentile believers (Colossians 2: 8-12):

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10 and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; 11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

         Post Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), for those who want to continue to be under the Torah, they should start reading Galatians chapter 3 to see how Paul rebuked the Galatians: 

"For as many as are of the works of the Torah are under a curse; for it is written, "CURSED IN EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THINGS WRITTEN IN THE LAW, TO PERFORM THEM." Now that no one is justified by the Torah before God is evident; for, "THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

        No one who has been saved by grace through faith should attempt to go back to the Laws again. Those who choose to do so are required to follow every single commandment in the Torah, and the moment they break any of the Laws, they stand condemned under the Law.

        Paul continued, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse of the Torah for us...." (v 13). If Christ has already been publicly portrayed as crucified, why do we still go back to the Torah, as though fulfilling its requirements would lead to anything? 

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?

        To the Corinthians, Paul wrote:  

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. (2 Corinthians 3:14)

        As imperfect we are in the flesh, let us choose to live under grace by faith and continue to seek to live a holy life before God instead of being influenced by the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.