[safisoft]

All other issues aside, and they are many, that is an interpretation, BY DEFINITION, unless you can find a verse that says exactly that.

Argue with Paul. If you think "completely observant" does not equal "obedient to the Law" then it is you that cannot read Greek, much less English. Let me give you a clue: we use the phrases "shomer" or "frum" which do not equal "observant" - but there is no doubt what it means to us or you. You know full well, and play coy. Obedient to the Law, a Pharisee, having done nothing against the customs of our fathers... is completely observant. Spin all you want... There are notable Roman Catholic scholars that would cringe at your assertions to the contrary.

Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the Law. Acts 21:24

"My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead." Acts 23:6

Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: "My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. Acts 28:17

I am sure you could argue about the "interpretation" of the pogroms or the Inquisition too. I can hear it, "It wasn't really torture..." It seems that you will do anything to defend the indefensible, as long as has to do with Catholicism.

[Petronski]

I am sure you could argue about the "interpretation" of the pogroms or the Inquisition too.

The continued sneering insinuations of anti-Semitism indicate to me an appreciation of the weakness of your position.

[papertyger]

I am sure you could argue about the "interpretation" of the pogroms or the Inquisition too.

I sure can't argue with the kind of hubris that ignores the fact reading one more verse than the one quoted totally destroys the argument being made.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.Acts 21:25

All you have to do to prove me wrong is produce the verse that says the traditions are included in the NT scripture. Every post you make that avoids answering that exact question, shows your credibility, integrity, and intellect weaker and weaker.