Brian
Puritan Board Freshman
Why did Paul so often associate circumcision with Mosaic tablet legalists? Or perhaps better, why did Mosaic tablet legalists so often cling to circumcision?
Circumcision was instituted under the Abrahamic covenant. It was a sign and seal of the circumcision made without hands (correct me if I get off here). The New Covenant reflects and fulfills the promises made in the Abrahamic (among other) covenant, and abolishes the Mosaic covenant as being "old."
So why so much of a diatribe against circumcision? How can Paul assoicate circumcision with "works of the flesh?"
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Thanks for the help,
BRIAN
Circumcision was instituted under the Abrahamic covenant. It was a sign and seal of the circumcision made without hands (correct me if I get off here). The New Covenant reflects and fulfills the promises made in the Abrahamic (among other) covenant, and abolishes the Mosaic covenant as being "old."
So why so much of a diatribe against circumcision? How can Paul assoicate circumcision with "works of the flesh?"
Links? Previous threads? Replies?
Thanks for the help,
BRIAN