In the KJV?
2007-11-21 01:14:04 · 4 answers · asked by יונתן 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question. I have no idea :) But if it was Paul, please remember he never actually met Jesus.
2007-11-21 01:24:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody wrote it-to do so would be to call Jesus a liar when He said that He did not come to abolish, but to fulfill...Matthew 5:17.
Hebrews 7:26-28 clearly explains that it was not the law that was done away with when the New testament arrived, but the sacrificial system, the system of having mortal men become high priests in order to offer gifts and sacrifices because these mortal men were of iniquity.
As for circumcision, as far back as the Torah, it was written:
Deu 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deu 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
The second part of the New Covenant is that Believers (Jews or Christians) would move from the world of the flesh to the world of the Spirit as the Holy Spirit would dwell into us after the greatest sacrifice of them all.
This is why Paul said it would put on a yoke that Jesus had taken off to force a Gentile to circumcise his foreskin to become a Jew, a Believer....because even the Jews had to circumcise their hearts as well as their organs.
2007-11-21 01:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by sirburd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be Paul the short Roman
2007-11-21 01:16:38 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The grace of God did away with legalism
2007-11-21 01:17:35 · answer #4 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋