The Law is our Schoolmaster, that leads us to Christ.
How's that?
Because anyone with an ounce of honesty knows they cannot keep the law. We need a covering.
Even intimating that we keep the law is a denial of truth.
Yes. The law was only a picture of what it would take to be perfect. God only gave it in response to the Israelites proudly proclaiming that they were well able to do all that God could ask of them. Moses had led them out of bondage and God wanted to speak to them in person. They were all afraid and just told Moses to go by himself and find out what God wanted, and they boasted they were well able to do anything God told them. God said OK here's a list and at the end he even added a rule that if you broke even the smallest one you were guilty of them all. God also added the most important part, when you can't keep them, make a sacrifice. The point of it all was to lead them to faith in the sacrifice. As an aside I always find it interesting that law minded folks seem to remember the law, but they never mention anything about the sacrifice.
