I try hard to be a good christian, but find it difficult to abide by all of the bible's teachings.
First, it appears that contrary to your first protestation, that you don't have a real inkling as to what it means to be Christian. This is further borne out in your following commentary concerning "difficult to abide by all...", which you consider to include the law. Thirdly, your later posts indicate a slight "change of tone", moving from the "meek questioner" guise to one of marginally pompous and aggressive superiority.
Let's deal with your "question".
If you were a born-again Christian, having accepted Jesus Christ by faith, and making a real attempt to learn what is encompassed by the new covenant, you would know the following:
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster
The law was given by God to Moses for transmission to the Israelites for a singular purpose...so that in attempting to live by the law, they would come to an understanding that there is no way for humankind to fulfill all the requirements of law, or to achieve perfection and righteousness by that law. It was necessary for people to learn, via the requirements of law, that someone (in this case Jesus Christ) would have to fulfill the requirements of the law
for them.
You should also know that:
Jam 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.
Which again emphasizes that failure on
any point of the law is the same (in God's eyes and requirements) as failing in
all the points.
Lastly, your "question" and approach are the same as many atheist's, agnostics and cynics who try to use alleged "contradictions" to point out inconsistency in the Bible, or in Christianity. Not surprisingly, it is in the use of such specious reasoning that the lack of understanding on their part is shown.
And no, I'm sure Jesus didn't dig mussels....nor did He eat ham.
