Day 336: The Council at Jerusalem (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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Do Gentiles Have to Be Circumcised?
The first Christians came from the old covenant. The big question was, do those Gentile converts have to first be circumcised before they're baptized? There's nothing about this in the Old Testament. And so they don't have an answer that God said in His word. So what do you do? In fact, it says there arose no little dissension among them. They had, they had, I love this in chapter 15, verse seven: "After there had been much debate, much debate, like they argued about this"
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