Law was an impossible system to keep

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Originally Posted by Esaias

Well, I wasn't saying a Christian can't fall into a Romans 7 experience. I think all if us could attest to that happening at least once in our lives, more likely more than once. But I do not think it describes the "normal Christian life".

Did you ever read that book entitled THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE, btw?

Question: Why does Peter call it "tempting God" to do what Moses did? If the unbearable yoke is simply the old covenant, how is it tempting God to promote it when that is what God himself did for some 1500 years?

Maybe this is another case of definitions being mixed up?

First of all, we have to ask what it was that Peter said they and their forebears could not keep. I claim it's Mosaic law, and in that spirit I see Paul writing Romans 7.

But was tempting God meant the act of implying God made an error in giving Cornelius the Holy Ghost, by demanding their circumcision? IOW, to circumcise the Gentiles would be implying that God should not have given them the Spirit because the reception of the Spirit means they were cleansed by God and fit for His Spirit before any circumcision took place.