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This is not the first time we have seen Jewish or Noahidist writers say that Paul and James preached the Noahide Laws (here) and (here). Here they also say that Jesus taught staying under Torah Law, but Paul and James felt this was too difficult for Gentile converts so they simplified it with Noahide.
"Paul (Saint Paul), the former rabbinic student, produced what are probably the world's most quoted lists of Noahide laws. While Jesus apparendy advocated total compliance with "even the least"of the Torah's ordinances, Paul did not. Writing that the Torah is "good, holy, and just,"and that he himself "delights in the Torah," he also realized that many of its laws are meant only for Israel. In the second half of the first century CE he and James (Saint James, or Jacob/ Yakov ben YoseJ), the new movement's leaders, decided against "troubling" or "burdening" Gentile converts to Christianity with the complete Law of Moses. Instead, the Christian Scriptures give converts just a fewm"necessary rules" — such as those against drinking blood, "sexual immorality," and eating meat from animals that had been either cruelly killed or consecrated to idols — which all stem from the Noahide Law." (Dallen, 2003, p. 41)
SOURCE: Dallen, Michael E. (2003). The Rainbow Covenant. Light Catcher Books & The Rainbow Covenant Foundation.
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