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B. THE JERUSALEM COUNCIL, 15:1-35
1. Point out the immediate occasion for the calling of the council,
15:1-6: The controversy over the need of circumcision and the keeping
of the law of Moses as necessary to salvation.
2. Note Peter's action in 15:7-12: He protected the Gentiles against the
assembly's attempt to put the unbearable yoke of the law upon them.
3. How does James in 15:13-21 support Peter's position? With the
assertion that the prophets agree with the acceptance of the Gentiles
without the keeping of the law of Moses.
4. Suggest the reasons for the restrictions in 15:20-21:
(1) Pollutions of idols - Because those who partook of meats offered
to idols would be looked upon by others as practicing idolatry.
(2) Fornication - Because the general opinion of the heathen was that
this was no sin, and its practice was so wide spread that it was
deemed desirable to give it special notice even though it was
already incorporated in the moral law.
(3) Things strangled and from blood - Because this would prove an
offence to those Jewish believers who still regarded the practice
of these Mosaic restrictions as obligatory.
5. What, in general, is to be said concerning 15:20-21? That these
prohibitions were a temporary arrangement adapted to the
conditions existing at that time and to be applicable only where
and when similar conditions prevail elsewhere.
6 . The settling of this serious doctrinal conflict was followed by
what, 15:22-35? By a period of exhortation and strengthening in
the faith.