Theological question: “Where do Christians get the idea that they no longer have to obey the law?” Romans 6:14

Christian response,

Has nothing to do with “NOT” keeping laws but that keeping letters, laws, days, diets, traditions, feasts, such as those legislated, mandated, in Torah no longer apply to those in the New Covenant as obedience, moral-judgment, pleasing the Father through obedience (John 15:8), changed; this, for a more efficient and exacting Way to pursue obedience that actually pleases the Father.

A New and NOVEL WAY to obedience,

Those redeemed by faith in Jesus in the New Covenant, uniquely possessing the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14), are anointed by the Spirit to produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) and it is this fruit that replaces chasing letters and mandates, CODIFIED LAWS that are subjective and argued over concerning their meaning, their application, the definition of their particular legal elements; CODIFIED LAWS that are easily rationalized away by the sin-nature of the human conscience; this is confusion, this is fertile ground for obfuscation whereas the Spirit eradicates the confusion of letters and true obedience in the New Covenant is defined by the pursuit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and it is these attributes/divine fruit of the Spirit that fulfills all law; both codified and spiritual; this, void the legalese and subjectivity of letters.

It’s NOT that the Christian is disobeying Torah or rejecting Torah but that the New Covenant, due the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit residing within the redeemed in Jesus (Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 32:39–40; Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26–27) provides a better Way to please the Father, a better Way to walk in obedience to the Father’s will for our individual and corporate lives.

New American Standard Bible

“And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.” Ezekiel 36:27

Galatians 5:16-18

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. / For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. / But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”