P:Are you claiming that I eat food sacrificed to to idols or engage in sexual immorality? Or are you saying that these are the only sins that are forbidden. I do not see murder or theft on the list.
Nice try but you left off the part about not eating blood.
The letter in Acts was addressing the controversy in Antioch on the question of whether the Gentile converts had to be circumcised and obey the Mosaic Law. The answer was no. To expand this to be a summation of the entire faith is foolishness.
Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.’
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
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.”
Gentile converts were told they did not have to obey the Law of Moses but the prohibition against eating blood was NOT removed.
That prohibition was given BEFORE the Mosaic Law, was reiterated IN the Mosaic Law and was reiterated yet again AFTER the Mosaic Law saw its fulfillment in Christ Jesus.
The prohibition against eating blood is not only found in the Law and God is reinforcing it.
That's why I don't do dinuguan. Not to mention, it is nasty too. The folks around here seem to like it, but I won't get near it. I don't do balut either. 😱