“ Now I exhort you, brothers, ” Paul wrote Christians in Rome about 56 C.E., “to keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. ”
علاوه بر مخالفت غیرمسیحیان ،‏ در آینده اختلافاتی درون جماعت پدید می‌آمد .‏