Paul speaking about a MORAL "law" (i.e. morality as opposed to complete anarchy), is FAR different than Jesus speaking about the TORAH AND NEVI'IM. When the translation of Matthew 5:17-20 says "The Law and the Prophets" it is referring to what comprised the bulk of the Tanakh that Jews followed and revered. Jesus came teaching from his own authority and was not formally trained as a Rabbi. Thus the Soferim and P'rushim feared (and accused) him of bringing innovation. He clarified that he had NOT come to get rid of even one of the 613 Mitzvot and that he did not come to abolish the Torah and Nevi'im.
Paul on the other hand says:
"The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless," Paul claimed Jesus was "abolishing in his flesh the Law with its commandments and regulations." Notice he at no time says "He abolished some specifically JEWISH commandments and regulations." He says that Jesus abolished THE LAW entirely WITH ITS commandments and regulations.
According to Romans 10:9 Paul says that no matter what: "That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved."
That is no matter what, if you are "consenting" to murder like Paul; if you admit to "robbing the churches" as Paul did; if someone says of you that you are a god and you NEVER go on record denying it; and it is not denied by your close disciple writing your biographical account; if you pride yourself on being a "crafty fellow" and taking people in "by deceit," then according to Paul none of this matters. You need no Torah, no Mitzvot, no nothing. Only belief in this borrowed pagan mythology of a resurrected "God-Man" who died on the cross as expiation for YOUR sins. What "liberating" belief system that conveniently was exactly what the LAWLESS Romans wanted to hear.
IF this claim was true the Christ was a LIAR when he told the Jews (his own people) that he came not to abolish the Torah and Nevi'im.
John, Jesus, James and the entire Qumran Community did not teach the nonsense of Christianity, they came teaching ISLAM meaning SUBMISSION [to God]. As it is written in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
"For it is through the spirit of true counsel concerning the ways of man that all his sins shall be expiated... He shall be cleansed from all his sins by the spirit of holiness... and his iniquity shall be expiated by the spirit of uprightness and humility. And when his flesh is sprinkled with purifying water and sanctified by cleansing water, it shall be made clean by the humble SUBMISSION of his soul to all the precepts of El (God)." 1QS III, 6-9
Paul knew good and well that the Torah applied to ANY non-Jew who wished to follow the teachings of Jesus or the Prophets of the Children of Israel before him. That is why he makes the admission:
"But now we are delivered from the Law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." Romans 7:6
Paul is admitting that ALL were bound by the Law, and unlike "Hebrews" the Book of Romans was addressed, rather "marketed," towards the Romans. So what Paul was doing was following behind James and the Jerusalem community and undoing their work. They were telling the Romans that if they want to follow Jesus then that is fine, but they must follow the Torah. They must not eat flesh sacrificed to Satanic false-gods, nor believe in blood-atonement for sins, as quoted throughout the Nevi'im and in the Community Rule of the Dead Sea Scrolls:
"They shall atone for guilt rebellion and for sins of unfaithfulness that they may obtain loving-kindness for the Land without the flesh of holocausts and the fat of sacrifice. And prayer rightly offered shall be as an acceptable fragrance of righteousness and perfection of way as a delectable free-will offering." 1QS IX.5
Furthermore, anyone wishing to convert from Hellenism, paganism, to the "SUBMISSION" taught by John, Jesus, James and Qumran must cut the foreskin off of their son's penis' after a week of life and follow all of the other regulations that God most certainly did not reveal to Moses in vain. More specifically to the teachings of John, Jesus, James and the Qumran Community, they must not drink alcohol nor eat animal flesh. THIS is why these are theme's that Paul incessantly attacks.