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To: editor-surveyor

“What about that do you consider “imposing?”

In Acts 15, the Council did NOT require gentile converts to keep the Law. The Council did retain the prohibitions on eating blood, meat containing blood, and meat of animals not properly slain, and on fornication and idolatry.

That which the Apostles did not require, and that was never kept by Jews, you want to latch onto Christians and make it a condition of salvation.

It simply is not.


120 posted on 03/04/2014 1:24:21 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
>> “In Acts 15, the Council did NOT require gentile converts to keep the Law.” <<

Acts 15:

[19] Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
[20] But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
[21] For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.


That is what they taught them, to learn by listening to Torah being read every sabbath day.

Since they were essentially all northern Israelites, they were already trying to keep Torah, but there were Pharisees infiltrating them insisting that they had to be circumcised, which they did not.

Read the word for understanding, not to see what you can get away with.

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124 posted on 03/04/2014 1:34:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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