Genesis 17:9-12
9. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
10. 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.
11. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
token
a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.: --mark, miracle, (en-)sign, token.
Leviticus 26
41. And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Deuteronomy 10
16. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Deuteronomy 30
6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Jeremiah 4
4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart,
Jeremiah 9:25-26
25. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26. Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Ezekiel 44:7
7. In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel 44:9
9. Thus saith the Lord God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Acts 7:49-51
49. Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
50. Hath not my hand made all these things?
51. Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Romans 2:25-29
25. For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26. Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27. And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Naaji wrote:" But he is a jew, which is one inwardly" All who believe in Jesus as a savior, Messiah and God, are jews inwardly.
these are the words of man, and I sincerely doubt (personally know) that they are of divine inspiration.
It starts in Genesis 17:9-12 as a physical sign to circumcise your penis.
It then gets taught by Mose's, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Luke and Paul that to be circumcised really means to be circumcised in your heart.
And as taught by Mose's, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Luke and Paul that to receive the Holy Spirit is to be circumcised!
Which is greater to God?
Your penis or your Heart?
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