When did the Jewish practices cease to be an issue?

[De_Maria]

Yeah, St. Paul gave me a hard time, too. Then, I realized that St. Paul was doing something that the others did not understand.

He was emphasizing the Sacraments. It is only in the Sacraments that we are saved by faith apart from works. In the Sacraments, God does all the work. We merely present ourselves and profess our faith.

Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

The others were emphasizing good works and living a righteous life.

This is why St. Peter said that St. Paul’s teachings were hard to understand. But he acknowledged that St. Paul was also led by the Holy Spirit.

And also why St. Paul’s and St. James’ teachings seemed to contradict. Some of St. Paul’s contradict with St. James, but only if you ignore the one’s that don’t.

Compare:
Romans 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

St. Paul seems to contradict with himself. Until you put these in context of the Sacraments.

 

[Vico]

Today being the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, I was thinking about them and how they had an argument over Peter not wanting to eat with Gentiles and about the early Jewish converts to Christianity believing it was necessary for all Christians to follow the Jewish practices.

I am wondering, when exactly did this issue kind of fade away so that no one was concerned any longer with whether some Christian had a Jewish background or had done traditional Jewish practices such as circumcision?

Acts 15 (NABRE)

Council of Jerusalem.​

1 Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.”

Footnotes:​

15:1- 35 The Jerusalem “Council” marks the official rejection of the rigid view that Gentile converts were obliged to observe the Mosaic law completely. From here to the end of Acts, Paul and the Gentile mission become the focus of Luke’s writing.

 

[dochawk]

I think Paul in Galatians also warns against being seen eating in company of those who proclaim gospels other than the four Gospels of Jesus Christ according to the Evangelists.

That would have been a fascinating trick on his part, giving the timing of the writings . . .

Warning against those who dispute the Word, yes. Four Gospels, however, would not be a notion for some time . . .

 

[speculator]

Peter or Chefas used to eat with gentiles and, probably to avoid quarrels with those of James, acted for the time being, with hypocrisy against his fellows; and Barnaba followed Peter.

 

[adgloriam]

adgloriam:

I think Paul in Galatians also warns against being seen eating in company of those who proclaim gospels other than the four Gospels of Jesus Christ according to the Evangelists.

That would have been a fascinating trick on his part, giving the timing of the writings . . .

Warning against those who dispute the Word, yes. Four Gospels, however, would not be a notion for some time . . .

Well spotted, the Holy Spirit is assumed to guarantee Paul’s words, hence take the 4 out of my sentence and it holds beautifully before and after.

And such “tricks” (of prophecy) anticipating causality, are not unheard of…To the contrary, it’s precisely in scripture that we have the best examples.