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Direct Answer From Bercot’s perspective, “living according to the Jewish law” today would mean returning to a mindset of religious bondage—treating Old Covenant regulations or special days as God-required badges of righteousness. It is spiritually dangerous because it can imply we “have not received grace” and can pull believers away from Christ’s finished work.

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• Ignatius: “If we still live according to the Jewish law, we acknowledge that we have not received grace,” which Bercot applies especially to Gentiles.
• Justin Martyr says Christians are blamed by Jews because “we do not live after the law and do not observe Sabbaths,” and adds there is “no more need” of Sabbaths “now.”
• Tertullian ties it to Galatians: Paul “blames the Galatians” for “observing times, days, months, and years,” calling them “abrogated.”
• Bercot calls the Mosaic law “nailed to the cross… finished,” and says Christians are under “moral laws… reiterated by Christ,” not Jewish ceremonies.
• He laments “Gentile Christians are turning back to things of the law,” echoing Paul’s “weak and beggarly elements.”