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What we believe and teach - The decrees which were determined by the
apostles and elders at |
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Around the
middle of the first century after Christ, the apostles and the elders met at
Jerusalem to consider an important question, that is to say, they came
together to decide whether the believing Gentiles had to be circumcised and
to keep the law of Moses or not. They decided not to burden the Gentiles with
anything beyond the following requirements: they had to abstain from things
offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled and from fornication.
Therefore we who are Gentiles in Christ Jesus must keep those decrees
determined by the apostles and the elders at |