additional requirements for salvation just because they are Gentiles. The Mosaic Law was not intended to be a hindrance to the Gentile believers. Dickinson says “Peter urges on one hand that its (Mosaic Law) absence did not preclude Cornelius from salvation and on the other hand that its presence did not bring the experience of salvation to the Jews.”1 James’ sermon says that “God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name”, this implies that the conversion of the Gentiles is seen being a part of the plan to restore the nation of Israel into one being again instead of two split parts. James differs from Peter in that he tries to attach the Mosaic Law onto the Gentiles “Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble
