Acts 15 prescribes basic Jewish practices for Gentiles to follow with the injunction that they will learn Moses in the synogogues on the Sabbath and learn the rest there? Yet now, most Christian churches only teach Torah as bed time stories?
Paul over and over again lauded and upheld Torah, yet Christians trample it under foot and then have the nerve to say that they are "free" to do so?
Romans 2:13 "(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified)."
Romans 3:31 "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law."
Romans 7:12 "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good."
Romans 7:14 "For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin."
Romans 7:22 "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man."
The very idea that you think that the NT is a trump card over the OT rather than an elaboration on it shows the root of your error. If you think those NT lists of sins are exhaustive, you make James and the Acts 15 counsel to be liars because they believed that it would be greatly beneficial for the new beleivers to learn Torah.
Not at all. Nowhere in Acts 15 , but specifiically, the Council's letter to gentile believers does it say to keep the Sabbath. Circumcision (the law) was discussed and also deemed unnecessary. Thanks for the reminder.
The food laws are abolished yet we are told to be mindful of the weaker brother, not causing him to stumble, whether Jew, Greek or church of God.
Acts 15:21 refers to the Jews living in "every city" including Corinth. So Acts 15:19-20 says the gentiles should follow these proscriptions so as not to cause friction with their Jewish brothers. Verse 19 states that "We should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God." WE should not make it difficult. This was a compromise to reduce strife among men, not a statement of the law.