Since this is for christians, I prolly shuddn't be on it, I am a heretic and damn proud of it.
Romans was written by a freakin reformed pharisee, so whaduya expect?
If CHRIST was all for the law, why did he speak against it so much? Even Jeremiah says the 'lying pen of the scribes' in reference to the law.
But I am a nihilistic gnostic, and I think that Yeshua was trying to SAVE us from the very thing His worship came to be corrupted by.
And I quote the late and great Leonard Cohen.... "When they said 'repent' I wonder what they meant...."