No; I have not.
Declare victory and leave the field of battle.
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The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. 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 think I'll go with Scripture, instead of Spin.
DAng!
That darned ol’ letter doesn’t even MENTION circumcision!
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.
What do you suppose it was that these Pharisees (from the Jerusalem Church) [Acts 15:5] were telling these poor adult, male, Gentile converts? Hmmm?
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.
[Acts 15:19] Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Just what was it that you suppose was troubling these poor, adult, male, uncircumcised Gentile converts?
James said basically............,"Tell them not to worry about going under the knife anymore because we have now reconsidered their requirements to enter the Church.....but, be sure and tell them about the Halakhah Laws [Leviticus 17 & 18] which guided the Israelites and Moses in their dealings with the Gentiles."
It was tacit understanding by the council that they would not honor other gods; have no graven images; would not take Yahweh's name in vain; would remember the Sabbath day; would honor their parents; would not kill anyone; would not adulterate themselves; would not steal; would not lie....and keep themselves from coveting.
Why do you think a plaque (or and image) of the Ten Commandments appear in (or on) just about every public Law building in the U.S.A. if they were done away with by James in 49 A.D.?
Of course, your pitiful understanding of Yahweh and His law prevents you from answering this..........intelligently.
Now.........you can huff and puff your way around this simple to understand concept with your "Main Stream" revisionism of things......but folks (Lurkers) can see right through it.....and the fact that James obviously concluded that these converts would continue in their understanding and learning of Torah by attending weekly Sabbath services......is so succinctly pointed out.
It must be terrible to be so unaware of things............