[HarleyD]

If Paul was really telling the Galatians that circumcision separated them from Yeshua, why did he circumcise Timothy?

For all our friends trying to live by the law, Christians are not under the law of God. They are under the law of Christ (grace).

Please consider these verses:

1Co 9:21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.

Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The law of Christ is to love one another as we are loved. Paul circumcised Timothy so that he might win others to Christ, an act of love in Christ.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “For all our friends trying to live by the law...” <<

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A mostly nonexistent group imagined up by the faith rejecting “Gracists.”

When Paul spoke of “the law” he was not discussing Torah, but the false oral torah of the Pharisees. Yeshua’s second most important task here on Earth was rebuking the Pharisees and their oral traditions.

Living with Torah written on your heart is what Yeshua came to promote. Living with a love of pleasing him by following his words is not “Salvation by works.” It is enduring in faith that we will be saved on that day when he comes in the cloud with his angels.

Paul circumcised Timothy to make his life less complicated.