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   Note: circumcision is used here, below, as an analogy to the law; as the law   
   may   
   be said to "circumscribe" our activities.   
      
   The Epistle of Paul the Apostle, a servant of Jesus Christ, to the Romans:   
      
   Romans 2   
   "17 Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in   
   God,   
   18 and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being   
   instructed   
   out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the   
   blind, a   
   light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher   
   of   
   babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21 You, therefore,   
   who   
   teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not   
   steal, do you steal? 22 You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you   
   commit   
   adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who make your boast   
   in   
   the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 24 For “the name of   
   God is   
   blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.   
      
   Circumcision of No Avail   
      
   25 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a   
   breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore,   
   if   
   an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his   
   uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically   
   uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written   
   code,   
   and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is   
   one   
   outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he   
   is a   
   Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit,   
   not   
   in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God."   
      
   - Paul the Apostle, Romans 2:17-29, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV   
      
      
   Note, Paul was against circumcision, as cited below:   
      
      
   Galatians 5   
   "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do   
   not   
   be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.  Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if   
   you   
   become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.  And I testify again to   
   every   
   man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.  You   
   have   
   become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have   
   fallen from grace.  For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of   
   righteousness by faith.  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor   
   uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love."   
      
   You ran well.  Who hindered you from obeying the truth?   
      
   For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; ... through love serve one   
   another.  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall   
   love   
   your neighbor as yourself.”   
      
   I say then: Walk in the Spirit,   
   For if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.   
      
   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,   
   faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law."   
      
   - Paul the Apostle, Galatians 5:1-7,13,14,16a,18,22-23, Holy Bible, New   
   Testament   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)