The question would be: Do you believe the events of Acts 15 happened like this comic (which is how we are told to understand Acts 15) or do you believe what the text says? Because if you read Acts 15 in context (context being the whole chapter at minimum, the rest of the book before it, the rest of the Bible before it), you can't come to the conclusion that the Gentiles aren't supposed to follow the Law. The commands given to them are from the Law. They are told to listen to Moses (the Law) every Sabbath). To read this and say gentiles aren't supposed to follow the Law doesn't make sense.

Then if you continue on to Acts 21 when Paul visits James, they are talking about how new believers coming to Yeshua are "zealous for the Law" and they are excited about it. Then they tell Paul people are saying he is telling people to forsake the Law, which they know ISN'T true and want Paul to show he does still live by the Law (because if you are living by the Law and teaching others not to do it, you're not actually living by the Law.)

There are no prophecies, no statements, no Scripture that states the Gentiles aren't supposed to keep the Law. Everyone always comes to Acts 15 to show "see, we aren't supposed to do it."

Acts 15 is the instructions to the newbie believer. Someone who has just come to the faith after being in a life of paganism. In church, what is usually the focus for new believers? Isn't it whatever sins they are struggling with? Focus on those things first, then the rest will come later?

It is no different in Acts 15. They aren't deciding what part or if gentiles should follow God's Laws, because all over the OT, if there is one statement that God makes perfectly clear over and over and over again: it is that if you love Him, you will keep His Laws. It has nothing to do with your nationality. It is about loving Him.

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