Was Saint Paul circumcised

Answer 1

Paul was the first Christian to say that Christians may keep their foreskins. 85% of the world is uncircumcised, ie., they have their complete foreskin as they were when they were born. Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains, are forbidden to circumcise as it violates the body. Mormons, Christian Scientists, and the Amish are also forbidden to circumcise or be circumcised. There are even many Jews and Muslims that are uncircumcised, especially in the developed world.

As Paul was a Jew who followed the law, he was circumcised, I am sure.

Answer 2

No as a mater of fact he did not.

The Council of Jerusalem[6] of about 50 AD was the first meeting in early Christianity called upon to consider the application of Mosaic Law to the new community. Specifically, it had to consider whether new Gentile converts to Christianity were obligated to undergo biblical circumcision for full membership in the Christian community, but it was conscious that the issue had wider implications, since circumcision is the "everlasting" sign of the Abrahamic Covenant.[14] Jewish culture was still trying to find its place in the more dominant Hellenistic culture which found circumcision to be repulsive.[15]

At the time, the Christian community would have considered itself a part of the wider Jewish community, with most of the leaders of the Church being Jewish or Jewish proselytes.

Peter led the discussion:""Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will."[16]"

No one could answer him and the assembly fell silent.

The decision of the Council came to be called the Apostolic Decree[17] and was that most Mosaic law[18], including the requirement for circumcision of males, was not obligatory for Gentile converts, possibly in order to make it easier for them to join the movement.[19] However, the Council did retain the prohibitions against eating meat containing blood, or meat of animals not properly slain, and against "fornication" and "idol worship".[20] Beginning with Augustine of Hippo,[21] many have seen a connection to Noahide Law, while some modern scholars[22] reject the connection to Noahide Law[23] and instead see Lev 17-18[24] as the basis. See also Old Testament Law directed at non-Jews and Leviticus 18. In effect, however, the Jerusalem Church created a double standard: one for Jewish Christians and one for Gentile converts. See Dual-covenant theology for the modern debate.

The Decree may be a major act of differentiation of the Church from its Jewish roots,[25] the first being the Rejection of Jesus.[26] Although the outcome is not inconsistent with the Jewish view on the applicability of Mosaic Law to non-Jews, see also Jewish background to the early Christian circumcision controversy, the Decree created a category of persons who were members of the Christian community (which still considered itself to be part of the Jewish community) who were not considered to be full converts of the wider Jewish community. These partial converts were welcomed, a common term for them being "God fearers" (similar to the modern movement of B'nei Noah), but there were certain rituals[27] and areas in the Temple from which they (Gentiles) were excluded, just as, for example, only the Kohen Gadol could enter the Kodesh Hakodashim of the Temple. This created problems especially when the Christian community had become dominated by new Gentile members with less understanding of the biblical reasons for the dispute.

Answer 3

No, Paul said that Gentile men did not have to be circumcised before they could be baptized. Peter argued that they must first be circumcised. In the end, Paul won.