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Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
the whole law" here a reference to God's covenant at Sinai or to a set of purely human-origin regulations administered by certain pharisees a few thousand years ago which had no authority ever, whatsoever, over anyone outside those particular rabbinical schools?
I think the Prophets who were murdered through "THEIR" Law might take issue with your preaching here. These Mainstream Preachers of that time deceived a lot of People. That is why Jesus, The Word which became Flesh, changed the Priesthood, changed the Covenant. As the Word you dismiss says.
Heb. 8: 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.8 For finding fault with them, (The Priests who Corrupted the Word, not God as you preach) he (Jesus) saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant (Priesthood) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (no more Levites Priests)
is circumcision a sign of a covenant to keep God's law or human traditions?
is circumcision 'blotted out' ?
is it found in God's word?
how can Paul say this - and say it so emphatically - if it's not?
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The Law is Spiritual, Circumcision is spiritual.
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither
is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he
is a Jew, which is one inwardly;
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,
and not in the letter; whose praise
is not of men, but of God.
It was not blotted out, rather, it's true intent exposed as the Bible meant in the first place.
Lev. 26:
40 If they shall confess their iniquity, (Repent) and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
41 And
that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.