The Yoke On The Gentiles

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actions. He told them God was more worried about the attitude of their hearts than what they ate or did to show they were believers. By the Jewish Christians abusing the yoke on the Gentile believers, they were calling the Gentiles dirty when God had called them clean. The Gentiles were not circumcised and did not follow the same food protocols as the Jewish Christians did and this caused much grief between the two parties. Polhill states on p. 326 "For the Jew, circumcision was a mark of sanctity and purity, of belonging to God's people and being acceptable to Him."2 Peter's focus was getting the Christian Jews to understand that even though the Gentiles were not circumcised and did not have the same food diet as them, God had declared