In my view, it is this utopian vision that inspired Paul to translate his faith in Jesus into his charge as Apostle to the Gentiles. As a result, he could no longer concern himself with the kinds of purity regulations that preoccupied many Pharisees (assuming that he was so preoccupied to start with), because turning the Gentiles from idolatry to the knowledge and worship of the one, true God trumps any need to separate the spheres of Jew and Gentile.
