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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: Acts 15 - The Jerusalem Council
Description: In Acts 15, the question arose do Gentiles need to be circumcised in order to be a Christian? The council decided that the OT Scripture says no, but that it is through faith in Jesus. The Gentiles were asked to abstain from things contaminated by idols, from sexual impurity, from eating animals that were strangled with the blood still in them, and from blood. The letter that was sent from the apostles and elders in Jerusalem to the believers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia said, "If they keep themselves from these things, they will do well. Farewell" (15:29b). The church...