Acts Chapter 15: The Ceremonial Law (The Annual Festivals, and their Relevance to the Christian Church.) The Council of Jerusalem Introduction The council of Jerusalem, which is recorded in Acts fifteen, is definitely an in depth research and deliberation into whether or not the Gentile Christians were under the same obligations as were the Jewish believers. Within this examination, the apostles had to ask some questions that turned them away from the traditional Jewish way of …showed first 75 words of 5104 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5104 total…and those who were living under the gospel dispensation had been freed from their observance. God’s unchangeable law of Ten Commandments, however, Paul still kept in spirit as well as in letter.” 40 The Festivals, which were shadows of the true, were no longer binding upon Paul’s life, nor on the lives of those who accepted Christ’s atoning sacrifice. The Ten Commandments, however, were and are binding upon all who would see God.