With all due respect, your posts would be a lot easier to read and follow if you did what you just did above - put your arguments succinctly and without huge quotes that it is impossible to read in their context without looking up each and every one. You are much better at putting things in your own words <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I didn't say the OT is irrelevant or done away with. If that was the case, why include it at all? We can and should read the OT. But it's in the NT that we learn what a profound difference Christ has made, and it's to the NT we should look for guidance how to live as Christians.

There are a lot of things in the OT that are simply not relevant to a life in Christ i.e. if you believe circumcision is necessary on the eighth day, you must also believe that a woman is spiritually unclean during her period and shouldn't be allowed to church for a month after having a baby boy and 2 months for a girl and that she must bring a pigeon or a lamb to church as an offering.

This is what Paul says. If you follow some of the law i.e. the circumcision, then you need to do the rest of it aswell, otherwise it's picking and choosing. But Christians don't have to do any of this and shouldn't. Because it is in Jesus that we place our trust.

I hope that explains my position better.