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Circumcision controversy in early Christianity
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Circumcision controversy in early Christianity
The
Council of Jerusalem
during the
Apostolic Age
of the
history of Christianity
did not include
religious male circumcision
as a requirement for new
gentile
converts. This became known as the "Apostolic Decree" and may be one of the first acts
differentiating early Christianity from Judaism
. Circumcision was enjoined upon the biblical patriarch
Abraham
, his descendants and their slaves as "a token of the
covenant
" concluded with him by
God
for all generations, as an "everlasting covenant".
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