event · New Testament

The Jerusalem council

The church decides gentiles enter the covenant people by grace, not by circumcision.

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grows out of · the sign debated

Acts 15 is a fight over exactly this sign: must gentiles take it to belong? The council says no, and the covenant family stops being one ethnicity.

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grows out of · the church decides

Peter's report of what happened at Cornelius' house becomes the decisive testimony at the council.