Jerusalem Council
The assembly or council of Jerusalem Jerusalem is a name applied retrospectively in discussions described in the book of Acts , fifteenth chapter Background Following acts of the apostles, following the return of Paul of Tarsus and Barnabas at Antioch , a controversy arose about the possibility of salvation for non-Jews and the question is raised in Jerusalem . A meeting of the Apostles , represented by Pierre , and Veterans, represented by Jacques le Juste , held in Jerusalem to address specifically the question of whether circumcision is necessary for salvation or the only faith in Jesus is enough. Must be first before entering the Jewish community? Circumcision and Jewish descent are they secondary to the point of admitting non-Jews ? The issue moves under the influence of the Pharisees Christian on the strict observance of the Law, including circumcision while Peter explains how the Gentiles have become believers and heard from his mouth to speak, of the Gospel . The question is twofold and the speech of Peter responds based on the hello while that Jacques built according to the Act. It is, implicitly, the question of the role of Christ in the salvation of God and the organization of relations between Jews and non-Jewish communities in the early Judeo-Christian. These events are generally dated to about AD 50 , ten years before the death of Jacques the Just , brother of Jesus. Literary clues lead to this council to divide Jerusalem into two distinct periods: one to 49-50, dominated by Peter, on the question of salvation in the theology of Christ and the Spirit. The other, after 52 and 58 before Jacques dominated by dealing with practical issues concerning the community in a spirit of legalism intelligent and peaceful , while Paul is in Asia Minor, Greece and Macedonia, and learns the results to return in 58 . The debate can be summarized: the faith in Jesus was sufficient to be saved or should we also observe the traditional rules of Judaism ? Jacques will make the elements of solutions for Peter and will harm the Pharisees avoiding the necessity of circumcision before baptism baptism by approving operated by Peter the Roman centurion uncircumcised Cornelius. Jacques, however, three sets allowed to keep for a pagan can be received in the community with members from Judaism prohibits eating the meat non-bleeding , forbidden to practice sexual immorality (fornication) Jacques adds that the ban will bring idols . It should be mentioned that out of Cornelius, there was no trace of Gentile nor in Jerusalem or Judea at that time and that Jacques maintains a separation between Jews and Gentiles . The decision of Jacques, later known as the Apostolic Letter is found in Acts 15, 23-29 : Debate
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