Building on the Foundation

  Church controversy has always existed, and in some cases, it’s even controversy born out of misunderstanding another controversy. Such is the case with a story we were given in Acts. In Acts chapter 15, we find a controversy between two factions. One faction thinks the gentiles have to become Jewish in order to have salvation, and the other faction disagrees because the gentiles were offered salvation outside of becoming Jewish, annnndd, these Pharisees were trying to enforce requirements on the gentiles for salvation that Jews themselves had never had for salvation. Requirements that God did not give for salvation. We find these requirements in Acts 15:5 But 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." This sect of the Pharisees demanded that the gentiles be circumcised and that they were to keep the oral law and traditions. Peter strongly objected to this, however, and...