Circumcision is a choice of obedience for an adult male. If they were not circumsized on the 8th then later they will have to choose to obey God and get circumsized or to disobey and not get circumsized. Israel wandering in the wilderness for 40 years did not circumcise their sons as they were commanded and then before going into the promised land Joshua circumsized all of them. It created a mountain of foreskins because there was so many circumcised. each one of them had to make the choice to obey God and be circumcised or to not obey God and not to be circumcised.
Also Paul circumcised Timothy. Wouldn't that make him a hypocrite? If Paul circumcised Timothy to be pleasing to the men how completely wrong is that that he did something to please men rather than to please God?
Can you be saved and be uncircumcised? Yes.
Can you be uncircumcised and still take part in the promises and blessings to Abraham? No.
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