"If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker." (NIV)
The ESV Study Bible notes helped me a lot on this one. If faith in Christ requires an admittance of guilt and failure according to the old law, reintroducing the old law would show a man to be condemned. If you accept the new Law and claim to be saved despite your failures then return to the old law, trying to earn your salvation even though you know it's futile, you are setting yourself up for disaster. It's only by faith in Christ that we can be saved.
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