Shalom, I'm Enoch. BOTTOM LINE: The claim by Israel United in Christ (IUIC) that God's Laws are "destroyed" under the New Covenant is a fundamental misreading of Jeremiah 31 and Yeshua's teachings, as the New Covenant precisely entails the internal inscription and fulfillment of Torah, not its abolition.

THEIR STRONGEST CASE — ANSWERED BELOW Israel United in Christ (IUIC) appears to assert that a failure to keep Old Testament laws, including dietary and ceremonial ones, leads to spiritual "destruction," implying these laws are still entirely binding in their Mosaic form for "true" Israelites. They might argue that any concept of a "new covenant" that diminishes these laws is a theological error leading away from God's intended path, and that those who do not adhere to them are under spiritual judgment.

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE

• Premise A (Jeremiah 31:31-33 [SEFARIA: Jeremiah 31:31-34]): The prophet Jeremiah foretells a "new covenant" (בְּרִ֥ית חֲדָשָֽׁה, b'rit chadashah) that will not be like the covenant made with their fathers, but explicitly states, "I will put My Torah within them and write it on their hearts."
• Premise B (Ezekiel 36:26-27 [SEFARIA: Ezekiel 36:26-27]): This prophecy, contemporaneous with Jeremiah, further describes this future covenant as God giving a "new heart" and "new spirit," causing His people to "walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them," directly linking spiritual transformation with Torah observance.
• Premise C (Matthew 5:17-19 [Source 4: Heaven and Earth: The Covenantal Language of Matthew 5 and Jeremiah 31]): Yeshua unequivocally states, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill... until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Torah until all is accomplished." This statement directly confirms the enduring validity of Torah, linking its continuity to the fundamental order of creation.
• Therefore: The New Covenant, as prophesied and inaugurated, does not destroy or abolish God's Law (Torah); rather, it fulfills it by internalizing it within the hearts of believers, enabling a deeper and more faithful adherence to its principles, making any claim of Torah's "destruction" antithetical to both prophetic and Mashiach's teachings.

CITATIONS

1. Jeremiah 31:31-34 (KJV, Sefaria)
2. Ezekiel 36:26-27 (Sefaria)
3. Matthew 5:17-19 (Scripture — verified in library)
4. [Source 4: Heaven and Earth: The Covenantal Language of Matthew 5 and Jeremiah 31]
5. [Source 9: Jeremiah 31:33 and the Continuity of Torah in the New Covenant, protestant-rebuttal]

COUNTER-ARGUMENTS ANTICIPATED

• Objection 1: "The New Covenant is 'not like the covenant I made with their fathers,' therefore the old laws are abolished."
  • Your counter: Jeremiah 31:32 clarifies how it is "not like" the old covenant: "because they, for their part, violated My covenant." The distinction lies not in the content of the Torah, but in the method of its administration and the internal disposition of the people, with the New Covenant providing the spiritual enablement for obedience, as explicitly stated in Jeremiah 31:33, "I will put My Torah within them and write it on their hearts."
• Objection 2: "The New Testament speaks of being "under grace, not under law," implying the Law is no longer relevant."
  • Your counter: Being "under grace" (Romans 6:14) signifies freedom from the condemnation of the Law due to sin, not freedom to disregard the Law's righteous requirements. Rather, grace empowers us to fulfill the righteous requirements of the Torah from the heart, as stated in Romans 8:4, "so that the righteous requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."
• Objection 3: "Paul says the Law was a 'tutor leading to Christ' and that we are no longer under a tutor (Galatians 3:24-25), indicating its termination."
  • Your counter: The analogy of the paidagogos (tutor/guardian) in Galatians 3 refers to the Law's role in bringing us to Mashiach for justification. Once justified by faith, we are no longer under its custody as a means to earn righteousness, but this does not negate its ongoing instruction for righteous living. The purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Mashiach, not abolished by Him; it is internalized, as seen in Jeremiah 31:33.

POSITION LOCK The New Covenant, as revealed in Jeremiah 31 and fulfilled by Yeshua, fundamentally involves the writing of God's eternal Torah upon the hearts of His people, enabling faithful observance through spiritual transformation, rather than its destruction or abolition. Any doctrine asserting the "destruction" of God's Laws misrepresents the continuity and deeper fulfillment of Torah within the Messianic era.

REPROOF'S POSITION The New Covenant does not destroy God's Laws but rather inaugurates a new and more profound way of keeping them, inscribed internally by the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). The problem with the Old Covenant was not the Torah itself, which is holy, just, and good, but the people's inability to keep it from a transformed heart, a deficiency addressed by the New Covenant.

• "We are no longer under the Law." → This common misinterpretation confuses freedom from the curse of the Law due to sin with freedom from the instruction of the Law for righteous living (Romans 6:14, 7:12).
• "The old covenant is obsolete, therefore the laws are gone." → While the Mosaic covenant administration is superseded, the moral and ethical principles of Torah remain eternal and are internalized in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:33, Hebrews 8:13).
• "Jesus abolished the Old Testament laws." → Yeshua explicitly taught that He came not to abolish the Torah but to fulfill it, emphasizing its enduring validity (Matthew 5:17-19). The eternal nature of God's Torah is affirmed by both prophetic and Messianic teachings, demonstrating its continuity through the New Covenant.