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Naked Bible 420: Paul’s Use of the Old Testament Series: Romans 4

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Is This Blessing Only for the Uncircumcised?

Paul is exploiting the fact that abraham is recorded in the torah as being righteous by faith before he gets circumcised, or gets the covenant of circumcision. Circumcision is what marks you out as a person of god riht. And so paul has noticed something very important in and paul is exploiting this difference here. Because if abraham himself can be declared righteous without being circumcised, then what is to prevent gentiles from ex in the same sort of blessing? I thinkthats some thang we need to really understand before we go on. The community at rome, like many early christian communities, no doubt, would have had a lot of conflict between jew

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