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I should have pinged you to my #36 for variations of interpretations.

Truth is not decided by consensus.

I heartily agree. Neither is it decided by each individual. Even the Reformers realized this very early on - it's why they created their various Confessions, Principles of Faith and so on. They even split from each other numerous times over disagreements on who's interpretation of scripture, via sola scriptura, was correct.

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While we are discussing creeds, principles of faith, confessions, interpretation of scripture, who's on first, etc., I would like to ask a question. DOes anyone here know why circumcision was required? What it represented? ANd water baptism. Why was it required? ANd what did it represent? Without knowing the answer to these two questions, there can be NO UNITY OF THE SPIRIT, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, or ONE BODY that Paul speaks of in Ephesians 4:4-6.

If you don't know WHY they existed, then you don't know IF they are STILL required today. Rightly dividing God's WOrd of truth works when it's actually tried....2 Tim 2:15. Either GOd meant what He said when He said ONE, or He forgot there were more.