His character and will are eternal, but the law of Moses is not eternal: it had a beginning (hundreds of years after the Lord called Abraham; cf. Gal 3:17). Not only that: parts of it were clearly for a specific period and were destined to die out in the future (e.g., the ceremonial aspects of it, when Israel found itself without a temple or a priesthood, or civil norms that only applied to a nomadic/theocratic people, when it settled in the land or, later on, when it was deprived of it and lived in exile). Jesus Christ fulfilled the Torah perfectly, and we are now subject to him, not the
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