Acts 15

Paul was followed through most of his church-planting ministry by the people he made mad when he emptied their synagogue to create a congregation. They demanded that Jews remain Kosher and God fearing Gentiles become Kosher.

“No one can please Yahweh without obeying the Torah,” they instructed. “It’s OK that you God fearers have become believers in Yeshua, but you can’t be a good believer without being a good Jew.”

The flames of the argument were eventually taken to the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem, and that leadership wrote every non-Jewish believer a letter. It contains all that is required of Gentile believers to observe of the laws that Yahweh gave Moses to make Israel’s descendants a nation when He brought them out of Egypt.

It is very interesting that the letter doesn’t mention quite a few laws that are popular to impose on believers today. You should read it. It was written to you, if you are not a Jew…

Acts 15