Of course, they were not, but they could have been. The Gentiles were without God because they did not obey.
Ephesians 2:12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Our faith alone in Jesus' blood to clean us without having to do these works:
The Burnt Offering; The Grain Offering; The Fellowship Offering; The Sin Offering; The Guilt Offering; Dietary Laws; Purification After Childbirth; Cleansing From Infectious Skin Diseases; Cleansing From Mildew; Discharges Causing Uncleanness; The Day of Atonement; Rules for Priests; The Sabbath; Firstfruits; The Passover and Unleavened Bread; Feast of Weeks; Feast of Trumpets; Feast of Tabernacles; Oil and Bread Set Before The LORD; the Sabbath Year; The Year of Jubilee; Circumcision.
It is never ever shameful or sinful in anyway to obey Jesus.
There you go with your 7th Day Adventist distortion of the Law into compartments you, as they, break up the Law into, so you can choose your notions of the Moral aspects of the Law in your profound ignorance of it all.
I won't say you are a deceiver. No.
Even though the result of your ignorance in this issue, is the same.
Yours is simply the fact that you haven't a clue what you are talking about.
Not a clue.
In this, you have surpassed the Nirvana of the ignorance that is your bliss like no one else on here, but for your twin; what's their name.
Sheesh! Get a clue already!
The Law was one whole package; not some child's puzzle for you to lose some pieces of "because this fits better this way; oh how I love Jesus!"
The Laws against usury, for example - what "cleansing ritual" is that you fool?
Just look at all that the Law was - just look at how that much of it was far more that the cleansing rituals your ignorance turns it into:
http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm
Circumcision a ritual by which one entered in to Covenant to do the whole law - Galatians 5:
3. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor
to do the whole law.
In this, I call the testimony of all 613 Laws in light of passages Galatians 3, as a witness against your heresy in your ignorance!
The Law was a package deal you heretic!
James 1:
10. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend
in one point, he is guilty
of all.