06-17-2012, 01:04 AM
If they were not sent by God to circumcise, such as those who reject God's Messiah, and thus God....then they are only mutilators of the flesh, while they in thier deception think they are doing God's will....just as those who "marry" a person outside of God's will and sanction, are not at all married in His eyes, but are fornicators, not married people.
It's more a designation of the term, than the definition of the word that is being revealed, while the words are not the same. The Apostle Paul is making a statement there, that those who go around trying to do God's will, in their religious practices, which may have even been established by God, but who are not sanctioned by God to do so, are really practicing a false circumsision, which is amounts to only a mutilation of the flesh. We know this is what he is talking about, because the next verse in the passage he says this:
Phil 3:3 "For we are The Circumcision, who serve God in Spirit, and glory in Eshu M'shikha, and are not confident in/upon flesh,..."
Shlama,
Chuck
It's more a designation of the term, than the definition of the word that is being revealed, while the words are not the same. The Apostle Paul is making a statement there, that those who go around trying to do God's will, in their religious practices, which may have even been established by God, but who are not sanctioned by God to do so, are really practicing a false circumsision, which is amounts to only a mutilation of the flesh. We know this is what he is talking about, because the next verse in the passage he says this:
Phil 3:3 "For we are The Circumcision, who serve God in Spirit, and glory in Eshu M'shikha, and are not confident in/upon flesh,..."
Shlama,
Chuck