July 22, 2010 – Acts 15-15:35

A controversy between the believers in the early Church and how they handled it.  They didn’t split apart, they asked for the Church leaders to decide.  And they did, not on their own, by by listening to God and the Holy Spirit.  Verse 28 says that the decision was that of the Holy Spirit.  And the followers humbly accepted the interpretation and followed the rule laid out by the Apostles.  This letter taken by Paul to Antioch tells the church their what they are suppose to do.  To my knowledge, that letter is not one of the Epistles.  But the church of Antioch followed it.  How does a Bible Alone believer merge those two things.  The early Christians of Antioch were following things taught not from the Bible, but a letter written to them by the Leaders of the Church.