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Circumcision is a practice that the Jews picked up from the Egyptians. When Christianity was being originally organized as a religion it was working on getting into society's that would no more mutilate a child's penis them cut of their child's hand circumcision was regarded as an abhorrent mutilation of the body, this can be seen from ancient art that survived the period into today. So Saul (Paul) one of the originators of the christian church came up with a compromise which consisted of what is regarded as circumcision of the heart, which consists basically of the person acceptance of Christ as their savior. The instructions in the Jewish book the Torah are not necessarily accepted by an increasing number of Jews in any case.

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