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I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther King Jr. (Ft. Laura Nasrallah) – Letter from Birmingham Jail (HarvardX)
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As Paul does throughout the letters, Dr. King cites his credentials, specifically by reminding his listeners that he serves as “president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,” a relevant and respected organization. Dr King rhetorically accounts for the source of his authority and uses that as a foundation upon which to build his argument.

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and "If you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you" [Gal. 5:2]. St. Paul (Ft. Laura Nasrallah) – The Cerinthians (Epiphanius, 28.5.1-3)
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Paul does not condemn circumcision, but is against forcing it on the Gentiles.

In Galatians 6:15, Paul concludes his position on circumcision by saying, “…neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything.” He attempts to clarify that both Jews and Gentiles can be new creations after pledging themselves to Christ. Circumcision does not make one a real Christian or super-Christian; it’s a practice unconnected to salvation, period. If you want to be righteous by the means of traditions, then you must follow the whole law, which Christ did not come to abolish but to accomplish.

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Circumcision can be seen as “shadow” of the good things to come,not the substance.
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Circumcision of the foreskin is one of the ordinances nailed to the cross. The practice no longer subscribe to holiness. Circumcision is now spiritual, and is executed in the heart (the spirit).

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Jesus didn’t preach circumcision. He was circumcised.

Paul isn’t preaching against circumcision but rather saying that it is not necessary. Circumcision is not an obstacle to Christianity but rather a Jewish practice no longer relevant to being a Christian or not.

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It is important not to take this passage out of context; Paul is not against circumcision but that it is not required for inclusion among the faithful. Only the fact of being circumcised is no GUARANTEE of salvation in Christ. If circumcision was so integral to their sect, I wonder how many women were members of the cult of the Cerinthians?

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Indeed without Paul in the Church history, we would be lost in the forest or looking at to Sinai without knowing where to go.

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Another misunderstanding of the Cerinthians: circumcision doesn’t prevent to become a beloved brother or sister or a Saint. It’s just a nonsense.

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It seems like the circumcision he talks about is a voluntary one: ‘if you receive’, rather than ‘if you received as a child’. If the gospel of Christ already says that this is not a requirement to be saved, why would a man choose to do it? Because he is not fully confident on Christ and his teachings. It’s not very different from a modern day Christian who, besides complying with all the basics that this religion provides, goes around carrying a Buddhist, Hindu, American-Indian, or pagan amulet (‘just in case’).

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To receive circumcision is to still belief in the validity of the old law over and above the word of Christ, but it is faith in the word of Christ that saves, not adherence to the old law.

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I think this may apply only to gentiles to whom Paul claimed he addressed his gospels- A Jew could become Christian he would almost certainly be circumcised as was Paul and still be saved by faith.

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