Circumcision

Job 31-32, Galatians 5-6

Galatians 5:2-3

2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Literalists take note. Are you circumcised?

Is Galatians culturally-bound? There certainly are passages here which apply to us with a conceptual search-and-replace. There are also phrases which don’t mean the same thing now that they did then.

Plus there’s Paul’s flair for drama. That’s always enjoyable.

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