Catholic and Protestant cultures are different. these scriptures still ring true today! these branches of Christ are to be respected out of God’s great love for both.
By doing this, Paul will show that he is still sensitive to Jewish culture, which James believes will overturn their fellow Jews’ concerns about Paul. This action demonstrates that Paul is not encouraging Jews to abandon their traditions, cultural identity, or religious identity. Paul’s actions are purely social, showing respect for Israelite customs. Faithlife Bible.
The Christian leaders were not asking Gentiles to live like Jews; neither did they want to compel Jews to live like Gentiles. The spiritual unity of the body of believers is realized in its diversity, not in its conformity. From our diverse backgrounds and cultures we honor the same Lord. NKJ Bible.
Acts 21:23–25 (NKJV)
23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. 24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law. 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Acts 15:19 (NKJV)
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,
Acts 15:20 (NKJV)
20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
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