Hello brakelite.
Your protest that I did not answer the question you asked.
I thought the answer was obvious and did not need a reply.
Here is the question;
"Where in the scriptures are the protestations from the Jewish legalists ,
that is the very same ones who protested loud and long re circumcision,
regarding the necessity for the Gentile converts to honour the Sabbath?"
As you are well aware brakelite the ten are included in the
"law of Moses", hence the sabbath is included in the "law".
No reason for it to be mentioned, nor for any particular law
to be mentioned.
Acts 15 states that circumcision and the law of Moses was
the point of contention. That is why the debate took place,
that is why the apostles met, to decide this issue.
5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up,
saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to
observe the Law of Moses.” (Acts 15:5)
Does a Gentile convert have to become a Jew to be saved?
This is implied by the call for "circumcision" elsewhere
in the New Testament. It was not referring to the simple
physical process but always membership to Israel. It
always inferred the law of Moses.
Circumcision was the instruction God gave Abraham,
the father of the Hebrews, part of the Abraham covenant.
Circumcision was contained within the law of Moses.
It was a sign of membership to the Jewish way of life.
It was everything to the Jews, no one was greater than Abraham!
Circumcision means alliance to both covenants!!
Does a Gentile convert have to become a Jew to be saved?
Jesus was Jewish, Jesus obeyed the law of Moses, Jesus was the
messiah. Obviously brakelite, a Gentile must become a Jew.
You must be circumcised brakelite or your belief is in vain.
Do I need to say more, it is so obvious, how can a person
be saved who does not live as a Jew?
This was the claim the Christian Pharisees made (Acts 15:5).
The claim for the sabbath (all law) was contained simply in the
request of the Pharisees for "circumcision".
The answer in contained in (Acts 15), it says it all brakelite.
28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you
no greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things
sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication;
if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
The Gentiles were not given commandments, laws or words.
To "abstain" is not a commandment, law or word.
Not all Gentile nations had issues with "eating things
sacrificed to idols" brakelite. Your argument is absurd.
It is the reverse of what is written. Peter was placating
both sides, the Pharisees and the Gentiles. If the
Gentiles did not eat like dogs then the Jews would
not be upset. Three of these rules were diet related.
For the sake of the Jews no less.
"No greater burden", just a few simple rules to follow.
28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon
you no greater burden than these essentials:
These rules were the essentials!!!
God had already decided that the Gentiles were heirs and
that was without any Mosaic law. No wonder this was a
revelation. God had given the Gentiles the Holy Spirit.
the seal of membership. They were already saved and
the Jewish apostles knew this.