Paul’s example of having Timothy circumcised conflicts with later doctrines
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Acts 16:1, 3, "Paul, going to Derbe and
Lystra, met Timothy, the son of a certain woman who was a Jewess, and
he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those
quarters." From this quotation and the records of history, it is
evident that original Christianity did not dispense with the
circumcision of Jews received within its pale. Is it not then sinful to
attempt to persuade Jews to abandon those rites which the founders and
first propagators of the Christian religion actually confirmed by their
own acts?
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