Christian Man.... Jesus circumcised. Did you?

Question

Did you follow his orders?

What did he command us to do?

Just wanted to know};)

Peace.

Answer 1

In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love.

In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature.

Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

If you are in Christ Jesus then ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.

Circumcision is merely a symbol of the utter condemnation of the flesh. They that are in the flesh cannot please God. We are to walk in newness of life by the Spirit. There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We are not under the law but under grace. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death, for what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Christ was circumcised the eighth day in His body according to the law but his flesh was cut off by the cross, which circumcision represents. His flesh was sinless, being perfect as the spotless Lamb of God, but He bore the sinful flesh of all who are united to Him by faith. Thus He took God's punishment for sin in the flesh (body) for all united to Him by faith. Our obedience to Him enables us to walk in newness of life in the Spirit of God.

As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

You Muslims and others make a terrible and fatal mistake in that you think that you can serve God in the flesh and only look at things outwardly. Thus you have a works based religion according to law which can never please God. All your works are tainted by sin, even your so called obedience. You cannot offer perfect obedience. God cannot accept anything less than perfection else it would offend and compromise His perfection.

That is why He had to do it all for us and sent His only beloved Son to accomplish a perfect salvation and righteousness which He can justly accept. (That is also why Christ must be God, nothing less that God's perfection is acceptable to God)

Look at Abraham. The promise was made to Abraham when he was called Abram, Genesis15. God made a covenant with Abram but because Abram was not able to perform his side of the covenant, being weak through the flesh, God performed Abram's side, - behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces, v17. God made both sides of the covenant, putting Abram to sleep, and Abram's side was represented by and to be fulfilled by his descendent, Jesus Christ, God's Son.

Look again at Genesis 22 where God called Abraham to sacrifice his miraculously given son. Such was Abraham's faith that he was willing, believing that God was able to raise from the dead, but his son was not sufficient, being weak through the flesh, so God stopped him and provided another. This shows and foreshadows the perfect Son of God who was sufficient and has fulfilled God's perfect plan of redemption for all who in like faith to Abraham trust in Jesus Christ raised from the dead.

You who say that Abraham is a prophet, then believe Abraham, and all the prophets, for they testify of Christ.

We rely upon God's promise, which cannot fail, by faith. Works are both insufficient and can fail.

Circumcision then is a symbol of all this, that we cannot please God in the flesh, by our own merit or works. Now it is no longer the flesh that is to be circumcised but the heart, and not with human hands, but by God's own hand.

God's command is that all men everywhere repent and believe the witness of God that He hath testified of His Son.

Answer 2

The first Christians were Jews, and would have been circumcised, but when they became Christians, they were told to forget things like the Jewish holidays etc, and follow Christ. St Paul, writing to the newly-established churches in the New Testament, says that it is not necessary for Christians to be circumcised.

Answer 3

those issues were of the former Covenant/previous testomony; Jesus has made a sparkling Covenant -- a sparkling settlement -- sealed in his own blood. Mat 26:28 For that's my blood of the recent testomony, it really is shed for most for the remission of sins. lower than the recent covenant, the first council of the church made a a thoughts-attaining decision, which became significant because that most of the members were themselves circumcised Jews that believed in Jesus. a question got here to the apostles at Jerusalem even if converts that were no longer Jews had to be circumcised. The apostles determined -- lower than the training of the Holy Spirit -- that believers did not opt to be circumcised or to save the provisions of the former Covenant. the following is the decision despatched decrease back to those who raised the question: Act 15:28-29 "For it looked good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to position upon you no more beneficial burden than those mandatory issues; That ye abstain from meats provided to idols, and from blood, and from issues strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye save yourselves, ye shall do nicely." Circumcision and the retaining of the Mosaic regulation aren't from now on required of Christians. The regulation of Moses turned right into a schoolmaster to coach us precise from incorrect (Galatians 3:24-25). We now keep on with the regulation of love, Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

When the early Church became mainly gentile, circumcision was replaced by Baptism. Paul did not forbid circumcision he said a person was justified through faith, in Christ. Those who were not Jews and wanted to follow Christ did not need to be circumcised.

Answer 5

Actually, in response to someome's anser, early Christian men DID get circumcised for a while until they realized that with this practice, they were not having much agreemwnt with the Europena pagans, so all of the sudden it was dropped, as was the mo pork prohibition.

Answer 6

God is more concerned with the circumcision of your heart then with any outward sign, like circumcision of the foreskin. But yes I am, it is a common medical practice, in the USA.

Answer 7

At 3 weeks old I dindt have much choice.
Jesus would have been circumsized according to GOD's law.

Answer 8

the new covenant doesn't recognize men being circumcised and it's even forbiden according to paul

Answer 9

not sure what your question is.