Re: [TruthTalk] Republican or Democrat

[Terry Clifton]

Jeff Powers wrote: It confirms Torah to me! Explain Acts 15:21 and then tell me how this passage rejects Torah. Jeff ================================================== My friend, you started too late and finished too early.  This subject is not dealt with in only one verse.  In verses 1 & 2, Paul disagrees with those who say you must keep the law.  In verse ten, Peter says, "No Jew was ever able to keep  the law.  Why would you expect a Gentile to keep it?" Verse 24 tops it off nicely with no question as to whether or not the keeping of the law is required.  It is not. The four things that were requested by the council hardly equal the six hundred plus commands in the law, and were almost certainly recommended so that the Gentile believers would not offend the sensibilities of their Jewish brethren.  I say this last because no Gentile was ever under the law unless he became a Jewish proselyte. You can see this if you are open to it. Terry       P.S.  I hardly ever strangle my food any more and drinking blood is out of the question.  I don't even like rare meat.