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Subject: Unclean food for the Christian? |
Bible Note: Greetings Kwigger! Thanks for the response my friend! Allow me to make two observations about the 'everlasting' part of your post. 1) First of all, Gen. 17:8 also says, "The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." Yet, the entire land of Canaan has not always been the possession of Israel. Even today, the entire land is not a possession of Israel. 2) Secondly, we are under a new covenant. The old has been nulified. (See Hebrews) So, while you make a logical connection between Gen. 17 and Gal. 3, there is no specific command in the New Testament which states that we must or even should be circumcised. Yet, there are plenty of very plain Scriptures which stress that one should not be circumcised: 1 Cor. 7:18 - "Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised." Gal. 5:2 - "Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law." Gal. 5:11 - "Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! " Titus 1:10 - "For there are many rebellious people, mere talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision group. 11 They must be silenced, because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain." Acts 15:5 - "Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, 'The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.'" ... Acts 15:10 - "Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?" Now, I responded to your questions, please address mine. If circumcision is still required, why does Paul say in 1 Cor. 7:18 say that an uncircumcised man should stay uncircumcised? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |