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Acts 15
24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
I maybe missing something here...but are you telling me that James [Acts 15:19-21], by suggesting the new converts to the Church....should learn about the "Halakhah Laws" [Leviticus chapters 17 & 18], this is somehow telling them the Sabbath Laws are no longer in effect?
I don't believe you could misconstrue this passage to that extent.....but correct if I'm wrong.
Just where does James tell them the Sabbath observance has been discontinued?
My statement stands..........Acts 15 eliminated circumcision for adult, male converts but nothing was said regarding the Sabbath.
The entire purpose of the Council was to discuss circumcision [Acts 15:2] When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Exactly....what was the question?
[Acts 15:1]And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Now.....do you want to show me where the word Sabbath is even used in chapter 15 (except for suggesting the Gentile Converts will be taught Halakhah on that day when they attend services....weekly)? If you have read through Leviticus 17 & 18 you will now have noticed that the Halakhah dealt with "Strangers among them". And.....this is exactly how the Jerusalem church (in its legalism) defined the new Gentile converts.