“”For Roman Catholic apologists to say every drop of blood the Christ child shed...... blood the infant Jesus lost when He was circumcised, all go towards saving sinners is idolatry.””
Dr E ,Don’t you realize that EVERYTHING in the life of Christ is about Salvation?
You miss out on so much richness and typology of Christian faith to reflect upon.
I suggest you read the following article...
http://www.circumstitions.com/leo.html
Excerpts..
A third constant in Patristic writings is the Circumcision of Christ conceived as continuous with his work of redemption. Since the debt incurred by the sin of Adam cannot be met by Adam’s insolvent progeny and since Christ’s blood pays the ransom his Circumcision becomes, as it were, a first installment, a down payment on behalf of mankind.
And one final point. Patristic literature associates the timing of the Circumcision on the eighth day with Resurrection. Here the argument rests on the kind of mystical numerology we no longer take seriously, but it did formerly engage some great minds. The reasoning runs somewhat as follows. Seven is the number of completion and fullness, for the world was created in seven days, and is due to pass through seven ages. But if seven is perfect, then seven-plus-one is pluperfect. Eight, therefore, stands for renewal, regeneration — whence the architectural tradition of eight-sided baptistries. And Christ rose from the dead on the day superseding the Sabbath, on the eighth day just as the world’s seven ages will be followed in the eighth age by the General Resurrection. These notions attach themselves almost from the beginning to all theological meditation on Christ’s Circumcision. From St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sense of the mystery that the Circumcision on the eighth day prefigures Christ’s Resurrection, and thereby, implicitly, the resurrection of all
Thanks for the ping. Very interesting and informative post; everything about Christ Jesus is redemptive...
"A third constant in Patristic writings is the Circumcision of Christ conceived as continuous with his work of redemption. Since the debt incurred by the sin of Adam cannot be met by Adam’s insolvent progeny and since Christ’s blood pays the ransom his Circumcision becomes, as it were, a first installment, a down payment on behalf of mankind."
Oh, dear. It's worse than I thought.
Christ's circumcision, as an act, was one more instance of Jesus Christ fulfilling the law of God.
The blood Christ shed at His circumcision did not save anyone, just like His saliva doesn't save anyone, nor His toenails.
But this error is what permits Rome to sell vials of "holy water," and to make trinkets into idolatrous relics, and to insist His mother was born without sin when absolutely none of that matters one single bit to anyone's salvation.
Rome is tangled up in the material world when it needs to look to the spiritual. Christ's blood on the cross, and only Christ's blood on the cross, ordained by God to be "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world," is what covers His flock with His righteousness and His faith and His obedience and His mercy and His ability to fulfill the law perfectly.
Really, stfassisi, keep posting utter nonsense like this, so foreign to the word of God and to the victorious redemption Christ won on the cross, and God willing, more and more people will recognize the idolatrous superstition that is at the heart of the papacy.
And flee from it.