this was a matter of more fundamental importance. Moreover, it highlighted a real problem for the early Gentile mission. For the early church everywhere seems to have adopted Jewish moral standards, as laid out in the Torah. But in reality, the Torah was far more than a collection of ethical teachings. It also contained detailed regulations for the proper conduct of worship. So how should Christians relate to the ritual practices of the Jewish religion? And why adopt the morality of the Torah as
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