Paul was right. No baby needs to be cut to fulfill some religious belief of their parent. It was always a barbaric custom, and Paul did right in steering Christianity away from it.
19 posted on 09/10/2004 12:17:45 AM MDT by The Once and Future King
You may view it as a barbaric custom but
It dramatically reduces cervical cancer
and the day it was prescribed to be performed
the baby boy has the highest level of vitamin K for blood clotting.
and OBTW it was commanded by G-d.
At the beginning of the New Covenant,
In the days of Jeremiah, it was transferred to the heart by metaphor.
It was not done by Paul for Christianity.
NAsbU Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
a bondslave to the Christ
chuck