hmmmm circumcision is the issue hmmmmm you read thhe bible but you do not study it
i think you are well just hmmmmmmmmmmm
i think you are well just hmmmmmmmmmmm
that's not what the subject is.
the jews believed you couldn't even begin to keep the Law (including sabbaths) unless you were circumcised.
circumcision is short-hand for Paul saying - THE LAW....and anyone who denies that needs to go look again.
those of the circumcision are those UNDER THE LAW.
that is why he said - to those being deceived; bewitched by the Pharisees - if you submit to circumcision - as the first step on your way to supposedly keeping the law of Moses, Christ is of no effect for you, for you are then BOUND to keep THE WHOLE LAW.
not just the parts you cherry pick.
Galatians 2:21
I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
treating the grace of God, in delivering up HIS OWN SON as something contemptible!
saying in their hearts "there was no need for Christ to die", because i don't CARE what God said - I AM going to be made right before Him by keeping the WHOLE LAW.
what a sad day this is where people say they know The Lord...and just trample the blood of the COVENANT whereby they were (if they were) sanctified....no, they are sanctified by keeping the law..particularly staying home on saturday.
disgraceful.