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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.

In a touching, and yet ill-informed "loyalty to the church" papertyger and Petronski are stubbornly sticking to a point that Roman Catholic scholars themselves affirm: Paul remained an observant Jew.

From the New Jerusalem Bible (I assume even Catholics might have a Catholic Bible?):

They gave glory to G-d when they heard this. Then they said, 'You see, brother, how thousands of Jews have now become believers, all of them staunch upholders of the Law; and what they have heard about you is that you instruct all Jews living among the gentiles to break away from Moses, authorising them not to circumcise their children or to follow the customary practices. What is to be done? A crowd is sure to gather, for they will hear that you have come. So this is what we suggest that you should do; we have four men here who are under a vow; take these men along and be purified with them and pay all the expenses connected with the shaving of their heads. This will let everyone know there is no truth in the reports they have heard about you, and that you too observe the Law by your way of life. Acts 21:20-24

Likewise Ananias of Damascus, where Paul went after he was blinded. Quoting Paul,

'Someone called Ananias, a devout follower of the Law and highly thought of by all the Jews living there,came to see me; he stood beside me and said, "Brother Saul, receive your sight." Instantly my sight came back and I was able to see him. Acts 22:12-13

So now, you can argue with Luke who told us of Paul, you can argue with Paul, you can argue with James, you can argue with Paul about Ananias, and you can argue with your own "church" scholars. I am done arguing with those that refuse to plainly read even their own "church" position.