5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the Law of Moses.”
Here we see a sect of Pharisees who had accepted Yeshua’s sacrifice and in proper Pharisaical way insisted that they must be circumcised and follow Torah. OK, so no surprises there. This was their background and training; Torah study and oral traditions as well. The good thing was, these men being Pharisees are saved, they saw Yeshua as the promised Messiah, praise Yah! They correctly see that one is to follow the commands, as Yeshua did and told us to do. The only problem is that in this case they wanted the gentiles to run before they could even stand up (much less walk). They may have not considered that new gentile believers needed to be weaned from milk to meat. Maybe they had come in contact with gentiles that already where very familiar with Torah so it was not much of a step for them but this was obviously not the case with these gentile believers as they had to be admonished to keep four very simple rules. Rules that apparently they were infringing upon which indicates the level of paganism these gentiles were living prior to accepting the sacrifice of Yeshua. Notice the response given to the believing Pharisees, which echoes Yeshua’s own mention of a yoke: 10 “Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?” The statement is made, reiterating the point of this chapter, salvation for gentiles is the same as salvation for us (Jews), by faith in Yeshua’s sacrifice: 11 “No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.” Then they go on to ascertain: 20 “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.” Clearly there was a problem among this particular community of gentile believers with these issues. There were obviously no God fearers to begin with, for God fearers would in all likelihood not need these admonitions. Had they been God fearers they would have probably gladly follow Torah as the next step in understanding of scriptures and as a natural desire to follow the Master’s steps. After all, that is what discipleship is all about, to follow the steps of the rabbi under which one is discipled.
Yeshua gave the apostles the task of making disciples of all nations. Why would they disobey the words of Yeshua and shorten themselves by just telling a specific group of new gentile believers that all they have to do is the four things delineated in verse 20? Really that makes no sense at all. The answer is reflected in the following verse: 21 “For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.” How did the God fearers became so? They heard Moses being preached! The apostles knew this, all these NEW BABIES in Messiah had to do to get on the right track was abstain from the very pagan practices they were accustomed to and then as they would go to the synagogues and temple the Ruach would convict them of the rest just at it happened with the other God fearers.
If these believers were to fellowship with the rest of the body of Messiah they would have to go to synagogue and the Temple on Shabbat for at this point Sunday meetings was not an option, the Jewish apostles and believers to whom these new gentiles were joined met on the Sabbath, kept the feasts and kept Torah so it was a matter of time before they too would do likewise. However, they felt it was imperative that they at least forsake their idolatry, fornicating, etc. They reached a compromise of sorts to get them on board, but this in no way meant it was the end of the line.

With your various views and comments it is obvious that you are living under Law, (OT), whereas, we Christians are living in Grace, for the law has been fulfilled by Christ (man being incapable God had to send his only Son, to become a pleasing sacrifice). We Catholics, understand that the teachings have come to us from the Apostles, (you have to read the early Church fathers, and not the early Reformers to understand the Catholic faith).
I sincerely hope and pray, that all your rantings against the Catholic Church does not sway a true Christian to fossake Christ and his Church, and become prey to your teachings.
GOd Bless

Now as per my faith, I do not compare it to someone elses faith. Nor do I say that I am saved, (I hope I am, and that I am in grace on my dying bed) and that others are not.

I only stick to the teachings from where I got my faith, and if it means wearing blinders, I will gladly do that, because Human wisdom, is foolishness in front of God.

Of the many things that you believe in, you have now spoken about statues in the Church. If you know your scripture well, you will realise that God did not, say do not make statures per se, he said do not worship statutes. You will find the temple, and the ark was full of images, and most importantly when the serpents were killing the people, God it was that commanded Moses to make an image of a serpent, and all who LOOKED unto it, when bitten were saved? Was the bronze serpent an image of God, or were the people worshipping the idol (although later on, One of the kings had to destroy the snake image, because people had started worshipping it).

So you see my dear sister, I sincerely believe In the promise of Christ, where he told the apostles, that when he goes, the Spirit would come and guide, and Christ definitely keeps his promise. Like his other promise of being with us till the end of times.

God bless