No, it is to make Christians believe that the New Testament was written in Hebrew, and to put a false air of spirituality around the hypocrites who demand we live as Jews. It is like waxing into poetic Latin randomly, which most people do not speak, and then telling us it "expresses the thought more fully."
A Talmudic taint?? What is 'Talmudic' about Teshuva?
It is a Jewish centric interpretation of the word when you make it to mean "be circumcised and keep the law of Moses," which would mean, in every case, that everywhere someone repents, it must necessarily mean that, despite the fact that it nowhere says that Gentiles like Job or the people of Nineveh were ever circumcised or kept the law of Moses. Yet God still accepted them.
If the intention of the Jerusalem Council is as you say, then my question is the natural response.
Your response is natural if you are a member of a religious cult like the Armostringites or the Hebrew Roots folks. The natural response would be, "We are not to be circumcised or keep the law of Moses." This is not interpretation. It is a plain reading of the text. Whether you accept it or not is not my problem. It's yours.
FINE. What then, is SIN?
Galatians 2: 11 When Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. 13 The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
14 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
15 “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. ...