Religious Deception

Religious Deception





….until certain people came from James….(v.12).



From the remarkable vision of Acts 10 Peter has learned that God breaks down the wall of partition between the Jews and the Gentiles. Encouraged by that vision he dared to eat with the gentile Christians of Antioch. However, when certain Jewish Christians who considered the Mosaic Law still in force came from Jerusalem, with the authority of James, Peter retract from fellowship meals with the gentile Christians.



Paul was bold enough to expose this hypocrisy behind practicing discrimination in the name of the Law. Even after coming out of the ethnic religion of Judaism to the freedom of the Gospel, many Jewish Christians insisted upon following ancient practices of ritual purity. Hypocrisy is the major problem of all religions all the time. All religions arose in good faith, broadening the mind of the people but in due course people refuse to continue new vision and reify the faith to suit the self-interest of those who highjack religion. The Gospel of Christ needs to be proclaimed and practiced strongly by the Church in India in order to break the caste and cultural discriminatory practices.

The Church today needs prophetic leaders who can stand against the corrupt hypocritical versions of the gospel.