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Originally posted by fudpuck
Bible contradictions....
"This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised." -- Genesis 17:10
"...if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." -- Galatians 5:2
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This is what I love --- ignorant peons who probably never finished high school googling up some bible scriptures COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT and trying to make a point.
This is NOT A CONTRADICTION! Here is an explanation:
""Circumcision" is used here to denote the whole Judaistic legal system. "Legalism" is a danger because it sets the flesh to work in an effort to accomplish what can only be attained through the Spirit. _There is a vast difference between an attempt to DO something through self-effort, on the one hand, and simply to make one's self AVAILABLE God to work "in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure" on the other hand. _No one may "live up to" God's standard; anyone,
wholly abandoned to Christ, in faith, may "be made conformable" to that high ideal. _One walks "in the flesh", the other "in the Spirit." "