Did Peter's Vision of the Sheet Mean People & Food?

[Rose of Shushan]

Quote:Acts 15 doesn’t just mention foods, but it mentioned some other specific laws, which are all in relation to certain things in reference to the Torah. There is reason why these laws are mentioned and all of it has to do with the Torah being handed over to the people. If we apply your logic to this chapter that there is some new law being passed down, then there is need to even have a verse twenty-one. It literally turns into being an anomaly with your understanding. They couldn’t be getting some new law as you suggest and then be told that Moses is preached on every Sabbath, that’s ludicrous. If there were a new law being instituted separate from the Law of Moses, wouldn’t you think they would commit the people to that law verses hearing Moses on the Sabbath? Do you not think they would have read Leviticus 11 and said to themselves we should follow this sense we are now called to Yisra’el. (Israel). Again, I’m not following.

That makes two of us now since I'm not understanding you too well in what you wrote up there.
One thing which struck me when rereading the chapter in question is this part


Act 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

So James gave no such commandment that they had to get circumcised and keep the Law.He likens that teaching to a subversion of their souls.
The he goes on to say

Act 15:27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
Act 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Act 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

So Nearyah in response to the question of whether they had to get circumcised and keep the Law the answer there is a rotund no! James in verse 29 tells us all that new gentile believers were expected to do.
Were they also commands in the Law of Moses? Yes.But Paul there is clear that the rest of the commands of Moses are not binding on these new gentile believers.


I also want to add that James says these necessary things.To me that means that they are necessary to believers and regarding your reference to verse 21 conflicting with all this,to me it merely says that the Israelites already kew about or complied with these things since they heard Moses being preached every Sabbath and in the Law it taught those already.