I suggest that Paul thinks a little bit differently. He maintains that the Christians (it does not matter whether they are Jews or Gentiles) are those who observe or rather fulfill "the whole law". And he really means the whole law, even the so-called cultic aspects of it. Yet, it does not happen according to the "literal-letteral" but according to the "literal-spiritual" reading of the Torah! See my "The new Quest for Paul."
I suggest that Paul thinks a little bit differently. He maintains that the Christians (it does not matter whether they are Jews or Gentiles) are those who observe or rather fulfill "the whole law". And he really means the whole law, even the so-called cultic aspects of it. Yet, it does not happen according to the "literal-letteral" but according to the "literal-spiritual" reading of the Torah! See my "The new Quest for Paul."