Lulav
Y'shua is His Name
Not so sisterI disagree. It's true that as bishop of the church at Jerusalem he was very powerful, just not as powerful as Peter. At the Council of Jerusalem, It is Peter who brings forth the Council's choice--Peter speaks and the decision is made. James, as the host, merely accepts it on behalf of the council and takes care of the formal business of the letter.
And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19Wherefore my sentence is*, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
*my judgement or my decision
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