Acts 15:6 (KJV)
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
I think it is key how this passage plays out…
The original question arose in Antioch, where certain men from Judea came to the church and disrupted it by teaching these Gentile Christians that they had to keep the law of Moses or else they could not be saved. The question was not about custom; it was far more critical. They demanded that salvation rested on circumcision and the Mosaic Law. Legalism is not a question of standards, but of salvation.
Paul and Barnabas arrived in Antioch just in time to confront this group and to take the question back to its origin—Jerusalem. There is a lesson there. When questions arise that are challenging to answer, go to the source of the question. Anywhere else is arguing over speculation.
When they arrived in Jerusalem and testified of all God had done, I notice that the counterargument came from “certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed.”
That is interesting. Certain Pharisees—believers themselves—challenged the call of God upon Paul, who himself had been a Pharisee and now believed.
- Paul made his case.
- The Pharisees made their case.
From that point, neither Paul nor the Pharisees spoke again.
- Peter gave input.
- James built upon Peter’s words.
- Then other members of the church in Jerusalem were sent to support what the church had determined.
Paul, being of the Pharisees and the focal point of the objection, was not left to be his own surety.
God, in Acts 15, completely dismissed Judaism as an authoritative movement. Christianity is absolutely separate from Judaism. Christians are called to come out and be separate from it.
I am calling Christians who pander to Judaism to do just that.
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God settled this question once—and the church must not reopen what He closed.
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