text: The early Christians had to decide what they were supposed to do, consider their new religion an outgrowth of Judaism, and get people to convert to Judaism and follow all the laws, including the food laws and getting circumcised, as Peter thought, or consider it a new religion, and not require that, as Paul thought. And Paul won.
  
  Pagans were not required to follow Jewish law.
  
  The  New Testament has Jesus saying, "You have heard X, but I tell you.....".
  
  The penalty for adultery was stoning, but he stopped the stoning of an adultress, saying, "Let the one who has never sinned, throw the first stone". Etc.
  
  So they concluded the N.T. superseded the Old.