The crux of Paul’s teachings came to fruition largely at the council of Jerusalem. Issues had arisen concerning the role that circumcision and the Mosaic Law would have for these believers, who were still considered a sect within Judaism. Paul paved the way for Christianity by speaking boldly of the miracles that God had performed among uncircumcised Gentiles, thus displaying that there was no distinction in God’s sight between Jews and Gentiles, and the only criterion to be reborn into a new life was faith in Jesus Christ as the messiah. It was here that Christianity made its schism from Judaism to become a religion in its own right, and this rejection of exclusivity defined the central doctrines of Christianity. Paul was not fighting against