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The issue was an early source of controversy between the Jerusalem church of James, and Paul, apostle to the gentiles, and came to a head during the Council of Jerusalem. According to the account given in Acts 15, it was determined that gentile followers of Jesus did not have to observe all the requirements of Judaism; rather, they were required to "abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication."

Paul also addressed this question in his Epistle to GalatiansThe Epistle to Galatians is a book of the Bible New Testament. It is a letter from Paul to the Christians of Galatia. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself ( Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13, 19). They seem to have been composed mainly of converts in which he condemned those who insisted that Jewish law had to be followed as "false brothers" (Galatians 2:4), and stated "I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all." (Galatians 5:2) Epistle to TitusThe Epistle to Titus is a book of the canonic New Testament, one of the three so-called "pastoral epistles" 1 Timothy 2 Timothy and the Epistle to Titus . It is offered as a letter from Paul to the Apostle Titus. Authorship and date Traditional view Accor 1:11, often attributed to Paul, is, according to some Biblical scholars, also a condemnation of these practices.

The influence of the Judaizers in the church diminished significantly after the destruction of JerusalemThe Destruction of Jerusalem (specifically, the Second Destruction of Jerusalem) was the culmination of the successful campaign of Titus Flavius against Judea after an unsuccessful attack four years prior by Cestius Gallus. Although the Roman army was ord, when the Jewish-Christian community at Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans during the Great Jewish RevoltRebellion The Great Jewish Revolt ( 66 70 CE), sometimes called The first Jewish-Roman War was the first of three rebellions against the Roman Empire by the Jews of Judea. It began in 66, sparked by religious violence between the Jews and the local Hellen. However, Christian groups following Jewish practices did not vanish immediately; though most had been suppressed as hereticalHeresy according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a "theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church by the 5th century, in some (particularly CopticCoptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately AD 60). The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox c) churches, Old Testament practices have survived to this day, including circumcision, and in the Ethiopian Coptic church, dietary laws and Saturday Sabbath as well. [1]