Do most regular churchgoers know about Acts chapter 15?
According to the context, most regular churchgoers and Sunday school attendees are unaware that Acts chapter 15 is in their Bibles. The chapter describes the controversy where Judaizers demanded circumcision and Law-keeping for salvation, which is often unknown. This is a significant gap in typical church knowledge.
Les explains that most church people who regularly attend church and Sunday school don't know that Acts chapter 15 is in their Bible, as he knows from folks who come into his classes from time to time. He directs attention to Acts 15:1, where certain men who came down from Judaea taught the brethren—Paul's converts recently out of paganism—that except they be circumcised after the manner of Moses, they cannot be saved. This event is about 52 A.D., some 12 years after Peter's going to the house of Cornelius and 15 years after Paul's own experience on the road to Damascus. Then in verse 5, certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed said it was needful to circumcise the Gentiles and commanded them, not merely suggesting Law-keeping but attaching salvation to it, thereby trying to pervert Paul's Gospel.
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Are Acts 15 and Galatians 2 parallel accounts of the same event?
Acts 15 and Galatians 2 are parallel chapters that both record the same event, the Jerusalem council.