FK: Your passage supports my case. For example: "When God is said to have sealed the Redeemer, the meaning is, that he has attested his divine mission (Joh 6:27). Circumcision is a seal, an attestation of the covenant (Rom 4:11).
Circumcision is a mark. It could just as well be cutting off your nose. It's a pagan custom of marking a tribe.
FK: Your passage supports my case. For example: ... "When God is said to have sealed the Redeemer, the meaning is, that he has attested his divine mission (Joh 6:27). Circumcision is a seal, an attestation of the covenant (Rom 4:11). ...
Kosta: Circumcision is a mark. It could just as well be cutting off your nose. It's a pagan custom of marking a tribe.
God Himself instituted circumcision, so if you want to call that pagan that is up to you. :) But the point is in its permanence. You can't undo a circumcision any more than you can unring a bell. Yet, Apostolics claim that they CAN undo the seal of the Holy Spirit, in clear violation of scripture.