3502 - Circumcision by G. N.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 11, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 27.

3502 — Circumcision

By G. N.

What answers in the Christian dispensation with children, to circumcision in the Jewish? G. N.

Circumcision separated Israel from other peoples and from sin unto God. See its origin among the Abrahamic family in Genesis 17. It was to be a sign to Israel that they were separate unto God, and that God's righteousness was upon them. Through that they ought to have seen the necessity of heart cleanliness. Deut. 10: 15, 16; Rom. 2:28, 29.

The one thing that answers to the rite in this dispensation is conversion to God. That is the only hope of our children. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." Gal. 6:15. See also 1 Cor. 7:19; Gal. 5:6.