Was the Gentile converts’ adoption of Jewish practices for pragmatic or theological reasons

Does Paul teach Gentiles to adopt Jewish practices?
To what capacity?
What could account for his inconsistencies?
Is there a particular debate?
Part I - Attracting membership
Proselytes and growing admiration for Judaism in Rome.
Christianity as an accessibly form of Judaism.
Remaining a Jewish movement.
Finding a balance
Part II - Appeasing jews, or alienating them?
Instructing Gentiles to adopt Jewish practices to calm tensions?
Acts 16.3 'Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places…’
Criticising Jews in church who continue to practice the law.
Romans 14.2 ‘One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.’
Narrative reflecting the tensions between Jews and Gentiles, and their reaction to his letter.
Part III - Paul’s theology & Conclusion
Paul did instruct Gentiles to adopt certain Jewish practices.
Were Paul’s teachings to the Gentiles core to his theology?
Did they serve the above practical reasons?
Salvation purely from belief in Christ?
Limitations of the study.
Paul acted pragmatically, but didn’t compromise his core belief.