The first Christian Church Council in Jerusalem, held in approximately 50 AD decreed that circumcision was not a requirement for Gentile converts. This became known as the "Apostolic Decree" and is one of the first acts differentiating Early Christianity from Rabbinic Judaism At roughly the same time Rabbinic Judaism made their circumcision requirement even stricter.

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  • The first Christian Church Council in Jerusalem, held in approximately 50 AD decreed that circumcision was not a requirement for Gentile converts. This became known as the "Apostolic Decree" and is one of the first acts differentiating Early Christianity from Rabbinic Judaism At roughly the same time Rabbinic Judaism made their circumcision requirement even stricter. According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "the decision that Christians need not practice circumcision is recorded in; there was never, however, a prohibition of circumcision, and it is practiced by Coptic Christians."
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  • The first Christian Church Council in Jerusalem, held in approximately 50 AD decreed that circumcision was not a requirement for Gentile converts. This became known as the "Apostolic Decree" and is one of the first acts differentiating Early Christianity from Rabbinic Judaism At roughly the same time Rabbinic Judaism made their circumcision requirement even stricter.
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  • Circumcision controversy in early Christianity
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