[b]barry wrote:[/b] [quote] This has profound implications for the believer today. It means that we must obey all of G-d\'s commands in the Torah or we will, in effect, be discarding a part of Yeshua. It means that if we make a distinction between the laws of G-d that we must obey and those that we don\'t have to obey, that we must somehow believe in part of Yeshua and not in all of Him. This does not work! Just as Yeshua is a single entity, so also is the Torah a single entity. We can not divide the commands of God anymore than we can divide the body of Messiah. We either obey all of the Torah or we have rejected Messiah. As a Jew, you can not separate Torah from the Son. As a Gentile, you can not separate the Son from Torah.[/quote] The basis of Christ\'s salvation for us is that it was a [i]substitutionary[/i] death. In other words He took our sin for us and gave us His righteousness. he died for our sins and failure to follow the Law. We live because of His good works and complete following of the Law. This is how He fulfilled the Law. (Matthew 5:17). So it is rejecting the Messiah and His substitutionary death to say that we must keep all of the Torah.