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A GENUINE CONCERN:
GENTILE BELIEVERS CONVERTING TO THE
OBSERVANT
“AND CERTAIN MEN CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA
AND TAUGHT THE BRETHREN, ‘UNLESS YOU ARE CIRCUMCISED
ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF MOSES, YOU CANNOT BE SAVED.’
THEREFORE…
PAUL AND BARNABAS HAD NO SMALL DISSENSION AND DISPUTE WITH THEM…
…DESCRIBING THE CONVERSION OF THE GENTILES…
SOME OF THE SECT OF THE PHARISEES WHO BELIEVED ROSE UP, SAYING,
‘IT IS NECESSARY TO CIRCUMCISE THEM,
AND TO COMMAND THEM TO KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES.’
…TO THE BRETHREN WHO ARE OF THE GENTILES…
WE HAVE HEARD THAT SOME TROUBLE YOU WITH WORDS, UNSETTLING YOUR SOULS, SAYING,
‘YOU MUST BE CIRCUMCISED AND KEEP THE LAW-TO WHOM WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT…’”
Acts 15 excerpts
The suddenly popular Torah-centered Messianic Movement among Gentile Christians is not a new
thing. The believing Jews that Paul describes above held the same now popular belief of the necessity
for Gentiles to keep the Law of Moses while at the same time believing in Jesus as the Messiah. I want
to warn all Gentile Christian believers who are becoming enmeshed into this popular movement:
The Torah-centered Messianic Movement is not based on the foundational beliefs of Christianity,
it is flirting with a return to the deadly legalistic tenets of Rabbinical Judaism.
