Acts 15:19-20 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
However, if you read onto Acts 15:21, "For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath."
The Apostles presumed that the Gentile believers would learn Torah in the synogogue every Sabbath and they would take Torah upon themselves as the Holy Spirit lead them as opposed to being coerced into it by the power hungry judaisers Paul had to contend with.
The Apostles presumed that the Gentile believers would learn Torah in the synogogue every Sabbath and they would take Torah upon themselves as the Holy Spirit lead them as opposed to being coerced into it by the power hungry judaisers Paul had to contend with.
That's very interesting, I notice that those who for one reason or another believe in keeping the Laws of Moses, read this the same way you do.
When I read it, I hear James telling the other Christian Jews that......
We can't expect the Gentiles who have never known God to keep the Laws as we do, since we have had them taught to us our whole life, and our fathers, and their fathers before them.
Then James and the others gave the Gentile believers the Noahide laws, that God had given to Noah and his sons in Gen 9, when He gave them every living thing as meat for them to eat.
Acts 15:28-29 mentions none of the Laws given to Moses, but just those given to Noah.
JH :)