Genesis 17:11 And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and
it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.
Galatians 5:2 Behold I, Paul, say to you that
if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you.
Colossians 2:17
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16 [/SUP]Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day— [SUP]
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things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on
visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, [SUP]
19 [/SUP]and not holding fast to the head, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.
Colossians 2:11 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ
I guess the question is was it from God that the sign of the covenant with Abraham was done away with in the New Testament and the establishment of the Church (Christ's Body).