Slippery Slope - Acts 15:29

"... You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood, or eating the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well..." Acts 15:29

When I first read this, I had some real issues with what they were saying. Wasn't it just a few chapters ago when Peter had the dream about God saying that food did NOT make a person unclean?? Isn't this the very kind of regulation/Law they were criticizing the Judaizers over? Isn't this a slippery slope? Then I got to thinking, nowhere did they say that this was a salvation issue. Maybe these were just good practices to live by (doesn't hurt that the religious Jews would be in full agreement, and likely make life easier for the new converts). Whatever the reason, it CANNOT be that this was something beyond faith in Jesus being required for salvation--it cannot be that they were reverting back to the Law!

Jesus, thank you for being the only sacrifice we need to be right before God.

Today's reading: Job 13, 14; Acts 17, 18