Why does Paul think the gentiles do not need to be circumcized?

At the Council of Jerusalem it was decided that Gentiles had to do what?

It was decided that a person did not need to become a gentile to become a Jew

What issues were settled at the Jerusalem Conference?

whether or not gentile christians had to follow mosaic law in order to be official. paul is mad at peter because when peter eats with gentiles, he follows kosher laws. should gentiles have to follow kosher rules when they eat with jews? who is more respected? this i don't know but i know these are questions. also a question that do gentile christians need to be circumsized in order to be an official christian? no they do not

Do Gentiles have to become Jewish before they become Christian?

No, absolutely not. The Apostle Paul taught that there is no Jew nor Greek (Gentiles) in Christ, we are all one in Him. Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians chapters 5 and 6 teach that a Gentile does not need to become circumsized to become a Christian. Circumcision was a sign between God and the Jews, so the teaching that we do not need to become circumsized is also teaching that we do not need to become Jews before we can become Christians. The Bible also teaches that we as Gentiles are made spiritual Jews just by being born again, becoming part of the body of Christ.

How did Acts 15 differ from Galatians 2?

AnswerGalatians was written by Paul himself and documents some of the events in Paul's ministry. In chapter 1, Paul claims that he received his gospel from no man, but by revelation from God, and that he immediately went to preach to the gentiles. In chapter 2, Paul claimed to have championed the right of gentile converts to remain uncircumcised and described Peter as the apostle to the circumcised - in fact not well disposed towards the gentiles. Paul seems unsure of the role of Peter and James in the Jerusalem church.Acts of the Apostles was written some decades later by an anonymous author, although attributed in the second century to Paul's companion, Luke.In this document, Paul must be quite familiar with the roles of Peter and James, in the Jerusalem church.Acts quite definitely attributes to Peter the decision to preach to the gentiles. Now, Acts 15 gives Peter the credit for accepting uncircumcised gentiles, with Paul not even expressing an opinion either way. It also portrays Paul as petulant and quarrelsome, in that he refused to take John Mark on a journey, causing a split between Paul on the one hand, and Barnabas and Mark on the other.Arguably a feature of Acts of the Apostle is that it draws many comparisons between Paul and Peter, but always shows Peter in the better light. Acts downplays some of the claims made by Paul in his own epistles. It seems that the author of Actswished to ensure that credit for the expansion of Christianity among the gentile population should not go to Paul.It may be that the differences result from a subtle attempt to rewrite the history of the early Christian Church.

What was the message Paul preached to the Gentiles?

Paul most often preached to some combination of Jews and Gentiles, but one of his sermons, delivered in Athens, had only the Greek audience in mind. This much of it is preserved in Scripture:Acts 17:22-31 - Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead." [NKJV]

What does the movement you need is on your shoulder mean?

This line was a place holder line, that Paul McCartney put in when he couldn't think of another. When he presented the song to John Lennon, Paul told him that he would think of a better line. John replied that it was the best line the song, and told him not to change it.

Why have paul and his comrades sent to the front?

Paul and his comrades were sent to the front because they were in need of backups.

What was Saint Paul's life like?

Everything you need to know about St. Paul can be found in the link below.

What are the release dates for Paul Rodriguez Live I Need the Couch - 1986 TV?

Paul Rodriguez Live I Need the Couch - 1986 TV was released on: USA: 1986

How did early Christian leaders such as Paul help separate Christianity from Judasim?

Paul created a theology based on Christ, rather than on the Mosaic Law and established the fundamental beliefs of Christianity: that God sent his Son who was crucified for the benefit of humanity and that his resurrection brought the promise of salvation to believers. He distinguished Christianity from Judaism by saying that humans are saved from sin by faith in Jesus and by following his teachings and not by following a law as the Jews believed. Jewish law was not necessary for salvation, Jesus alone was decisive. Thus, gentiles could convert to Chistianity and did not need to become Jews and follow their laws. Up to then Christians had been Jewish Christians who saw Jesus as the promised messiah of the Jews, spread the word only to other jews and still adhered to Jewish laws, customs and rituals and went to the synagogue. Paul's theology made Christianity accessible to the gentiles (non-Jews). This made it possible for Christianity to spread around the Roman Empire

Why do you think we need to urinate?

I think we need to urinate to get the waste out of our bodies.

Why are Saint Peter and Saint Paul always mentioned together?

In his own epistles, Paul only referred to Peter incidentally, seeming at times to regard him as the assistant to James, who seemed to be the leader of the Jerusalem church, and at other times as a minor nuisance who opposed his plans to allow gentiles equal membership of his church without the need to be circumcised. Acts of the Apostles was written half a century later by an unknown author whom the second-century Church Fathers thought likely to be Paul's companion, Luke, because of his apparent knowledge of the mission of Paul. An important, well disguised theme of Acts is the primacy of St Peter over St Paul, so it does draw them together in a number of subtle comparisons, even when those comparisons are in widely separated chapters. If a previously unknown miracle was attributed to Paul, then quite comparable miracles were also associated with Peter, and the miracles associated with Paul were always less impressive those associated with Peter.According to Acts, Paul's first miraculous cure was improbably similar to Peter's first cure. In both cases, a man who had been lame since birth was immediately cured by being commanded to stand and walk. Peter's first miracle cure was performed in the name of Jesus, at the Temple, where the faithful saw the healed beggar praising God, and was the opportunity for some outstanding proselytising. Paul's first cure was clumsy and without apparent purpose, given that Paul did not tell the man about Jesus and he was even mistaken for a pagan god.In an even more difficult challenge, Peter resurrected Tabitha, a good woman and a disciple, who was certainly dead and her body had already been washed. This miracle became known throughout Joppa and, as a result, many were converted. Paul also resuscitated a young man who foolishly fell asleep in an upper storey window and fell to the ground. There is some uncertainty as to whether the young man was really dead when Paul intervened to revive him, and the miracle did not present an opportunity to convert unbelievers.Peter and Paul were also capable of malevolent miracles. In an apparent miracle, Paul blinded Elymas (Bar-Jesus) the sorcerer, for trying to frustrate his attempts to convert Sergius Paulus. But Peter was to be feared more than Paul. A certain man named Ananias sold a possession and gave only some of the proceeds to Peter, who believed that the church was entitled to all the money. Peter realised the deceit immediately and Ananias fell dead. Later, Peter told Ananias' wife she would also die, because she repeated the deceit. The two slayings were carried out with almost no effort on Peter's part, whereas Paul could only blind Elymas for a season, and to do this had to wave his hand across his victim's face.According to Acts, Peter was released from prison twice by angels, who in one case accompanied Peter from the prison. There was no doubt about the extent of divine assistance Peter received in his escapes. Paul was released from prison by a timely earthquake that arguably need not have been of divine origin, and furthermore he did not make good his escape.According to Paul's own account, he took it upon himself to preach to the Gentiles and even rebuked Peter in Antioch for refusing to eat with the Gentiles. Compare this to Acts chapters 10 and 11, where Peter experienced a miraculous vision and was visited by the Holy Ghost, giving him a sign to bring Gentiles into the Church. In that account, Peter defended his actions in choosing to eat with the Gentiles and asserted that the Church must preach to the Gentiles. In the Acts account, Paul was carefully excluded from the company when these important decisions were made.So, St Peter and St Paul are referred together and in opposition in Acts of the Apostles in order to show second-century Christians who was really, in its author's opinion, the most important apostle.