is CIRCUMCISION still to be followed?

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kjijujoseph

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In the old testament its being told that all the male should get circumcised for them to be saved. But why then is that the Christianity not insisting on the practise of it? From when did the practice got changed and why caused the change while its being told that God's word and law are for ever?Please do give me a very brief explanation of it.... preferably some add on biblical support will help me in getting my answer.
 

Christina

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With Christ circumcision became spiritual of the heart. circumcision of the heart replaced circumcision of the flesh. Rom 2:29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
 

Bamp;#39;midbar

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Perhaps you would like to read most all of Acts 15. It begins with a controversy because some uninstructed men were teaching that the Gentiles had to be circumcised and this caused strife. So in Jerusalem, there was a meeting to decide what would be done. The result was that the Gentiles would not be troubled with any burden but those stated (and specifically not circumcision).
Acts 15:1 Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue…24 "Since we have heard that some of our number to whom we gave no instruction have disturbed you with their words, unsettling your souls,… 28 … it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell."
At later times, there seems to be a residual conflict over this issue, but Paul teaches that you don’t have to be circumcised to be justified. You can read about the issue in Romans 3 running into Romans 4. These ought to help with a background on the issue, anyway.
Rom 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.Rom 4:9 Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, "FAITH WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS." 10 How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;