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To: editor-surveyor

You might try reading Galatians 1:13 & 14.

It’s not up to me to judge the Believers who were born and reared in the Jewish Religion; and whether they clung to remnants of Judaism. But Paul stated that he was sent to the Gentiles. So if it were necessary or even advisable for Gentiles to observe Jewish feasts, that would have been made that clear in Acts and in Paul’s epistles, which it was not.

Acts Chapter 15 tells of the Elders in Jerusalem hearing Paul’s testimony to determine whether they thought that the conversions taking place among the Gentiles was genuine and acceptable. Their verdict? They were accepted. And the directions and requirements the Elders gave for the new Gentile Believers were few and simple; and DID NOT include feast days or circumcision.

Act 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Act 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Act 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

As I said earlier; No mention of keeping feast days or anything, and especially obvious by its omission is CIRCUMCISION!

None of the great evangelists in the past, such as Moody, or Barnhouse, or the Wesleys or anyone you can name put ANY emphasis on those things. In fact, they never even mentioned them. Then along comes Perry Stone and that’s about ALL he talks about, in a fairly narrow media venue on late night TV. If it’s important that we ALL observe it; the news has been a long time coming, and pretty sparsely broadcast.

I think Perry Stone is a good man, but I can’t find ANY Scriptural doctrinal teachings to Gentiles about this specialty of his.

Thanks for your reply.


35 posted on 01/30/2012 6:24:09 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

Its not any specialty of his, it is what All Christians did for the first three centuries. Its what is described in the entire New Testament, and little else can be found outside of it.

That is the nature of Biblical Christianity.


36 posted on 01/30/2012 6:52:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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