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The Council of Jerusalem was a meeting in [[Jerusalem]] between the apostle [[Paul]] and the Christian leadership in Jerusalem, probably around AD 50, to settle a dispute over the requirements behind converting to Christianity. The community in Jerusalem believed that non-Jewish converts to Christianity needed to be circumcised and to accept Jewish law, while Paul argued that that should not be required. Paul was able to convince the rest of the early Christian leaders that his views were correct, and the requirements that converts be circumcised and obey Jewish law was dropped.
The Council of Jerusalem was the convening around A.D. 50 of the [[Apostles]] and [[Paul]] and other Christian leaders to decide which Jewish traditions would be required of [[Gentiles]] who converted to [[Christianity]]. Specifically, the community in Jerusalem believed that non-Jewish converts to Christianity needed to be circumcised and to accept Jewish law, while Paul argued that that should not be required. Paul was able to convince the rest of the early Christian leaders that his views were correct, and the requirements that converts be circumcised was dropped.
The Council decided to make the burdens as light as possible on converts:<ref>Acts 15:28-29</ref>
:It has been decided by the [[Holy Spirit]] and ourselves not to saddle you with any burdens beyond these essentials: you are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from the meat of strangled animals and from fornication. Avoid these and you will do what is right.
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