It is easy for people to elevate traditions to which they are already accustomed and elevate them as if they are doctrines which become a stumbling block to those who were not accustomed to those traditions. Such was the case with circumcision. The Jews could easily bear circumcision as doctrine because they had been circumcized as children when it was easy but for the gentiles to beat circumcision after their conversion would have been a great burden. Peter recognized that the Lord has poured out the Holy Ghost on uncircumcised gentiles who were converted and thus deduced that circumcision need not be a requirement for conversion.
We do the same things today at times where many members if the church going to traditions that made sense among a more cohesive, homogeneous group of pioneer saints but can prove to be stumbling blocks among converts.
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