Spanky Meredith and Dr. Bob were captured recently discussing circumcision:
The Prophet Thiel is ecstatic that the California Governor signed into law that circumcision cannot be banned in the state:
Some of Dr. Bob's desire to cut it off is based upon this excuse:
The early 20th century theologian J.J.L. Ratton reported:
The early Church at Jerusalem, retained most of the distinctive customs of the Jews, such as circumcision, kosher meats, the Jewish Sabbath, the Jewish rites, and worship of the Temple. Our Lord, Himself, lived the exterior life of a Jew, even so far as the observance of Jewish religious customs was concerned. The early Church of Jerusalem followed His example. The Jews looked upon the Hebrew Christians in Jerusalem simply as a Jewish sect, which they called the sect of the Nazarenes. (Ratton JJL The Apocalypse of St. John: a commentary on the Greek text, 2nd edition. R. & T. Washbourne, ltd., 1915. Original fromt he University of Michigan. Digitized Jun 12, 2007, p. 4)
But then those dirty, filthy pagan worshiping catholics came on the scene and circumcision was done away with:
Now, it should be mentioned that in the second century, non-Nazarene professors of Christ, like the heretic Justin, did not practice circumcision.
One of the inquisitors in the Middle Ages found that a certain type of “heretic” (in his mind) uniformly observed the Sabbath and sometimes (though apparently not always) observed circumcision (Davis, Tamar. A General History of the Sabbatarian Churches. 1851; Reprinted 1995 by Commonwealth Publishing, Salt Lake City, p. 88).
Thus, it seems that circumcision was (and still is) often practiced by many trying to be faithful Christians. And because of “Judeo-Christian influence” (like from the Bible), this may be why there have always been a relatively high proportion of circumcised males in the USA (though this may be changing).
Those damn Catholics! Where were they when Moses needed them?While the Bible does not list health benefits that come from circumcision, it would make sense that the Creator of the universe would only recommend physical practices that were beneficial for His human creation.
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Scripture is clear about this topic, but not clear enough for the Armstrongists, I guess.
It's very disturbing that the ACoGs neither know what's in the Bible, nor are they willing to obey it.
I asked a Rabbi if you could make any money doing circumcisions.
He said, no, but you get to keep the tips.
What LCG should really do first is make sure everyone has blue fringes on their garments, then we can discuss the other stuff.
One of the things I remember of the approach to the OT laws was that there was supposed to be a logical explanation behind it. Otherwise God wouldn't have put them into place, right?
So where circumcision was concerned they took the approach that it had to do with hygiene. Of course the NT did away with it being required, but it was still a good idea. The fact that we were supposed to physicially be israel through BI also created an additional incentive.
I knew people who took the BI thing so to heart that they wore the start of david and especially appreciated any evidence of "jewishness" in their friends and family. Some of the kids at AC of "gentile" extraction felt a little like lower class citizens. I remember comments from guys from germany stating they were assyrian and greeks who felt a little like outsiders. The african-american bretheren had and even harder time considering themselves as decendents of Ham.
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