You’re right that Christians are not condemned by the Law. The Law was given to Israel as a specific means of regulating human behaviour at the time of the Exodus. The death of Jesus provided a new and direct means for people to relate to God without the intervention of law. Because (as Paul points out in Galations) the law is no longer condemning us, does this mean that people no longer need to follow the law? Can we now commit murder, theft, adultery (none of which receives a renewed prohibition in the New Testament)? No, because as Jesus says: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished” (Matthew 5, 17-18). What Paul is saying is that salvation does not come by keeping the law – salvation is given free. So sorry – but Jesus does not rule ‘that piece of evidence “inadmissible”‘ – far from it: he says that “until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”.