Council of Jerusalem

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.