Daily I see people saying baptism is not required for salvation. This isn't just bad teaching, it's really dangerous. Unless you're dying on a cross or something, it's required and makes us adopted children of Yahweh. Who doesn't want to join the family of God?
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to promise.
(Gal 3:26-29)
God tells Abraham to circumcise four times from Genesis 17:10-13. I think the repetition and details obliquely refers to four truths of circumcision:
v10 - Circumcise the heart to keep the covenant
v11 - Circumcise the flesh as a sign of the covenant
v12 - Circumcise on the 8th day as a metaphor of rebirth and beginning anew
v13 - Circumcision to show the adoption of foreigners into Abraham's covenant
Note that all of the men of Abraham's household who were circumcised were already considered part of his household before they were circumcised. Circumcision has never created children for Abraham. It is only a sign of what is already done.
Society has forgotten the love of Jesus.
https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/we-have-a-spi
Joshua 9:14—15, “Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD. And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.” The Gibeonites tricked Joshua into a covenant for life, he allowed himself to be manipulated because he failed to ask our Creator for guidance.
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