To All,
I keep running into Rom 2:28-29 being used to say that the only true Jews are Christians. But I think this is a classic case of quoting the Bible out of context. Consider Rom 2:25-29. Comments?
Greg
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I dislike long quotations; I much prefer just references. I thought, however, that Schonfield's translation is quite nice and clear so I include it, but only at the very end... out of the way. :-)
Rom 2:25-29 from "The Original New Testament" by Hugh J. Schonfield:
Circumcision is a definite advantage if you observe the law; but if you are a lawbreaker your circumcision is converted into uncircumcision. So if the uncircumcised person observes the moral principles of the Law, is not his uncircumcision to be reckoned as circumcision? And has not that uncircumcision which is by nature the right, having carried out the Law, to judge you who in spite of both code and circumcision are a lawbreaker? For he is no Jew who is only one in appearance, nor is circumcision simply what appears physically. The real Jew is he who is one internally, and the real circumcision is that of the heart, spiritual not literal, whose praise comes not from men but from God. |
