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Right Into John 1:17

There are an untold number of arguments, views, opinions, whatever which exploded when Saul, a murderer of Messianic Jews, was chosen by God to a missionary to the uncircumcised, and who became known as St. Paul.

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Everything changed with Jesus. No one knows the settled purpose or origins of circumcision. It was revealed by the prophets, not many know which one or ones.

It seems to be rooted in a time when small family populations were easily enslaved by larger ones. To survive they needed soldiers to keep their women from being stolen. 

Men not only had many wives with many sons but those powerful enough could support many concubines as well. There was an instinctual air to it all.

I read in the Old Testament at an early age a story which would not have been  told only if it were not all true. To be edited...