Return to New Testament Contradictions
Does circumcision need to be kept as a law?
Circumcision is of no consequence.
Galatians 6:15: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
The covenant of circumcision is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:7, 10-11: (7) And I will establish My covenant between Me and between you and between your seed after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be to you for a God and to your seed after you. (10) This is My covenant, which you shall observe between Me and between you and between your seed after you, that every male among you be circumcised. (11) And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be as the sign of a covenant between Me and between you.
Where did Paul go after his conversion?
Shortly after Paul's conversion he went to Arabia and Damascus then three years later he went to Jerusalem and met Peter and James only. He then went to Syria and Cilicia.
Galatians 1:15-21: (15) But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called [me] through His grace, (16) to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, (17) nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those [who were] apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. (18) Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days. (19) But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother. (20) (Now [concerning] the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.) (21) Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
Shortly after Paul's conversion he went to Damascus, then to Jerusalem where he was introduced to the apostles by Barnabas. He then went to Caesarea and Tarsus.
Acts 9:19-30: (19) So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus. (20) Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God. (21) Then all who heard were amazed, and said, "Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?" (22) But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this [Jesus] is the Christ. (23) Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him. (24) But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him. (25) Then the disciples took him by night and let [him] down through the wall in a large basket. (26) And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. (27) But Barnabas took him and brought [him] to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. (28) So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out. (29) And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him. (30) When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.
*Jewish Scripture from The Complete Jewish Bible with Rashi Commentary
**Christian Scripture from the New King James Version |
