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The goal of the letter was to obtain harmony by ensuring that the Jews should not offend the Gentiles by requiring circumcision and the Gentiles should not offend the Jews by certain practicesoffensive to Jews, described above.
Judas (not Judas Iscariot) Barsabbas and Silas were then dispatched to the Church at Antioch with the letter to the Gentile believers.<ref>Acts 15:30-32.</ref>
The doctrine of the Christian church with regard to the lack of necessity of circumcision was thus established and remains unchanged in the 21st Century.