할례구원(割禮救援) 주장사건(主張事件)
2024.6.19
(행15:1-26)
1 Some men came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the brothers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved." 2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad. 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them. 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." 6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: "Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 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? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are." 12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. 14 Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written: 16 "'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, 17 that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things' 18 that have been known for ages. 19 "It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 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. 21 For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath." 22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, two men who were leaders among the brothers. 23 With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. 24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul-- 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
안디옥에 등장한 어떤 사람의 가르침
할례(割禮)를 받아야 구원(救援)을 받을 수 있다는
구원론(救援論)을 설파(說破)한 것
그것에 대한 논쟁(論爭)이 좀처럼 수그러들지 않고 점점 심화(深化)되어지자
급기야 안디옥 교회는 바울과 바나바를 예루살렘교회에 파송
지도를 받는 모습을 본다
오늘날로 말하자면
노회가 총회에 질의하는 형식
바른 태도(態度) 및 조치(措置)라 여겨진다
결론인즉 이신득의득구(以信得義得救)
그 근거로 베드로는 행21장 고넬료와의 경험을 들어 할례가 아니고 믿음임을
모든 예루살렘 사도들 장로들의 의견합일(意見合一)을 이끌어 냄을 본다
이에 대하여 야고보의 확인
이로 인하여 예루살렘교회는
바나바 바울 그리고 실라까지 그 결과를 전달하기 위하여 안디옥으로 보내는 장면을 본다
신10:16 신30:6에는 ‘마음에 할례’를 말씀하셨다
이는 할례(割禮)의 본질(本質) 본연(本然)의 뜻으로
할례의식(割禮儀式)을 주신 하나님의 의도(意圖)가 무엇이었는가에 대한
신의노출(神意露出)이었던 것
형식이행(形式履行)
곧 행위구원(行爲救援)
마음이야 어떻든 행위(行爲)로 이어지는 결과(結果)로 그 가치를 마감하려는
율법주의적사고(律法主義的思考)...
하나님은 오늘의 말씀을 통해서
사도들의 판단이 옳았으며
이신칭의득의득구(以信稱義得義得救)의 교리(敎理)야 말로
하나님의 뜻임을 재확인(再確認)하게 해 주신다
목사로서
교수로서
무한 책임감을 느낀다
바른 말씀 해석적용(解釋適用)에 대함이 나에게...제자들에게...교우들에게...
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