Acts of the Apostles (The Council at Jerusalem)

1. Multiple choice: Believers out of what Jewish sect were pushing the circumcision issue in the Jerusalem church? (a) Pharisees; (b) Sadducees; or (c) Essenes.

2. Who said, "God... made no distinction between us [Jews] and them [Gentiles], purifying their hearts by faith" during the first church council? (a) Peter; (b) Paul; or (c) James.

3. What man at the Jerusalem council showed from Old Testament Scripture that Gentiles are to be included fully in the church apart from keeping the Law of Moses? (a) Paul; (b) Peter; or (c) James.

 

 

 

1. (a) Pharisees (Acts 15:5).

 

2. (a) Peter (Acts 15:7-9).

 

3. (c) James (Acts 15:13-17).