The Torah Is Very Flexible

He just told him that if you say no, there's a consequence. You have the option to keep Shabbat or not keep Shabbat. No one's putting a gun to your head and uh shooting it before you violated it. You have the option. You keep Shabbat. You don't have to keep Shabbat. You could be married to a Jew. You could be married to a non-Jew. You could eat kosher or you keep non-cosher. What the Torah is telling you is there you can do whatever you want. There are consequences though. Half the Torah, if not more, tells you that if you can do whatever you want, but you need to know there are consequences for what you do. This is one of the 13 principles of faith where Hashem specifically tells us, I pay reward to the righteous and I punish the wicked. A person who does not believe in this is removed from minan. He cannot be counted in minan. He cannot be counted as a witness in Jewish ceremonies. He's considered outside of Is why this is the foundation of Torah. If you think that Hashem only gives reward and no punishment, you believe in a different religion.