Im afraid I could not reconsider what is plainly written. The council was NOT discussing the moral law, but the law of Moses, of rite, ritual and ceremony.
I know this is what we were taught since our youth, by "Many" who come in Christ's Name. But the reason why I don't adopt this preaching, is because to do so, I would have to ignore and consider as a false teaching, "Every Word" Jesus and the entire Law and Prophets, and Paul himself taught about the Pharisees, or as Paul called it, the "Jews Religion". To believe you, I would have to completely reject the Words of Jesus I posted for your examination, that you completely ignored as if they didn't exist. I would have to believe that the Pharisees we trying to place on the necks of the Disciples as they did their fathers, God's Laws, and not the Commandments of men the Pharisees taught for doctrines, according to Jesus Himself. I would have to believe that Jesus lied about the Jews religion Paul used to partake of, when HE said they full well
rejected God's Commandments that they might live by and promote their own religious traditions. I would have to believe that the "Yoke" these Jews were trying to place on the necks of the Disciples, that led their fathers astray, was not the
"heavy burdens and grievous to be borne", Jesus said the Pharisees laid "on men's shoulders". But I would have to believe it was God's Laws that caused all the problems for Israel, and it was God's Laws that caused the Jews to murder the Prophets, and Jesus, and Stephen, and it was God's Laws that was being debated in Acts 15 that the Apostles rejected.
I would also have to consider a Lie, every Inspired Word of God throughout the entire Law and Prophets that taught about
the Jews religion.
If I did that, and created my own religion like the Pharisees did, then I could sell a license to Sin as the Pharisees were doing, and create a huge religious business, because let's face it, a license to sin would be a great religious marketing tool to grow a religious business.
But if I don't reject or consider as a Lie, the Christ's Words, or Paul's, or the rest of the entire Bible, I would know that the debate was about the Pharisees religion, the Pharisees traditions that they claimed was the Law of Moses, but was not. I would know, because I believe in the Jesus "of the Bible", that the Jews DIDN'T believe Moses. And I would understand that the "Yoke" the mainstream preachers of that time were trying place on the Disciples shoulders, the same Yoke they placed on their fathers shoulders, was not "The Law of Moses" that Jesus said to observe and do. But were traditions, high days and judgments of men, men who despised God's Judgments, rejected His Commandments, Polluted His Sabbaths and who were
going about to establish their own righteousness, having not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God".
The Pharisees had created their own religion, and with it a license to sin, no different than in Isaiah 1:7-20, or the wicked Kings of Israel. And the Jesus "of the Bible" Himself warns of a future were "Many", who call Him Lord, Lord, will still be selling license to sin.
So any religious philosophy that teaches Jesus, or Paul or Peter, or any of the Holy Scriptures were selling a license to sin, my advice for those who hear them, is to run, not walk away from this teaching, and listen to Paul's teaching
to both Jew and Gentile;
Rom. 6:
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but "yield yourselves" unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
And again;
2 Cor. 6:
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Christ came to teach people to repent from sin, and "go and sin no more", He didn't come to sell a license to sin, at least not according to Scriptures.
