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To: roamer_1
The Council at Jerusalem said.....

Acts 15:22-29 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:

“The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

And you want to put us back under the Law? Not thanks. I am freed from that.

Put yourself under bondage if you will. If God has convicted you about doing that for yourself, have at it.

But don't go around demanding that others follow you. That immediately crosses the line into legalism and then judging whether others are Christian or not because they don't meet your standards or expectations of what a Christian should live like.

365 posted on 11/27/2013 10:33:27 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
The Council at Jerusalem said.....

and the same council said they would learn as they go along, because Moses is preached there - They were learning in the synagogue. I asked you before, why do you suppose they only required three of the Noachide items? Noah is BEFORE Melchizedek. There is *no* precedent for only requiring *ANY* man (the Noachide Laws are for all mankind, without a doubt) less than the Noachide Law. The reason only three were given is that this is obviously the bare minimum, and that these initiates would learn as they went - To include Noachide AND Moses, because BOTH are Torah, and BOTH would be taught in the synagogue.

And you want to put us back under the Law? Not thanks. I am freed from that.

Not according to the scriptures. And not according to Yeshua. How does one 'go and sin no more' without knowing what sin is? How does one 'trust and obey' if there is nothing to do in order to obey? The OP is right on. There IS obedience. What does that look like?

Put yourself under bondage if you will. If God has convicted you about doing that for yourself, have at it.


1Jn 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

2Jn 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.


369 posted on 11/27/2013 11:17:40 AM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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