Acts 15:10

"Why do you put God to the test": That is, why are these Pharisees contradicting the clear will of God on the matter? Why are they acting like God made. mistake when he had Peter baptize uncircumcised Gentiles in Acts 10:1. "By placing upon the neck of the disciples. yoke": Demanding that new believers be circumcised and keep the Law of Moses. "Which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?": The New Testament makes it clear that the Law of Moses was. good thing (Romans 7:12), and righteous men delighted in God's Law (Psalms 1:1 ff; Psalms 19:7 ff). Yet we are also told that without the sacrifice of Christ, the Law only ended up condemning those under it (Galatians 3:10). Peter here appeals to the consciences of these Jews. Their ancestors had not been able to keep the Law perfectly and neither had their own generation. The word bear is being used in the sense that no one had been able to keep the Law perfectly, thus resulting in their justification. Paul will also call the Law. yoke of slavery in Galatians 5:1.