Contextualizing is the same as

Proving God 

Eliminates Faith

I came upon this Old Testament story when quite young and not far from being fooled by a logical fallacy. My extreme youth set me apart from adults and I thought God was in on the same religious pretenses as the minister and the church elders.

The angle can change the story

This was the fallacy of the misplaced authority. I believed the Bible, and the adults didn't. They gave me coloring books but not communion. Thru persistence I finally made it but I labored  under my fallacy for a long time. 

It was somewhere in this stage that I casually came upon this story about circumcision. One of the early fathers in his old age gave one of his younger leaders jurisdiction,  who was approached by families who wanted to join the Hebrews since theirs was dying out. 

They were accepted on the condition they would be circumcised first. They were and that night while recovering in their tents were broken into and killed. Where upon finding this out Jacob or maybe Isaac said this has brought disgrace upon us.

My conclusion was it was hard for me to to think the stories were made up if a story like this one was included. 

 Some, too many, scholars contextualized the story to such an over riding extent as to excuse the entire event. How next.......