@bulmabriefs144,
Quote:What the Gospel actually says. No detail about his circumcision at all. Just that on the 8th day, he is taken to be circumcised. No mention of the action itself. Then later he is taken to be presented.
What the bible says is that eight days later (After his birth) the time came for the baby to be circumcised, "
HE' was named Jesus. No mention of '
HIM' being taken anywhere, until 33 days after ‘
HE’ was circumcised, when '
HE' was then taken to the temple, where Mary performed the ceremony of purification.
Below is a noxious smelling pool of verbal dysentery, that has been spewed out of the mouth of One who claims to be a biblical fan, when not one word that has dribbled from its mouth can be supported by the biblical scriptures.
Quote:When he went to have his circumcision, the man charged with this task marveled. Said he, "Many are the boys who I have examined, but never have I seen any like this child. You submitted him to me to have his foreskin removed, but here, God has made him born without one." The man declared him perfect before God, but bade them be silent of all they had seen and heard, lest it draw attention.
Here are the facts as revealed by the “
WORD”. Luke 2: 22-24; The time came for Joseph and Mary to perform the ceremony of purification, as the Law of Moses commanded. So they took the child to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, They also went to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons, as required by the law of the Lord.
Verse 38; When Joseph and Mary had finished doing all that was required by the law of the Lord, they returned to their home town of Nazareth in Galilee.
So, let us look at the law of the Lord concerning the rules and regulations for a new born male child, which law was given by the Lord through his prophet Moses, and after Mary and Joseph had fulfilled
'ALL' that was required of the law, they returned to their home in Nazareth.
Leviticus 12: 1- 4; The LORD gave Moses the following regulations for the people of Israel. For seven days after a woman gives birth to a son, she is ritually unclean, as she is during her monthly period. On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised. Then it will be 33 more days before she is ritually clean from her loss of blood; she must not touch anything that is holy or enter the sacred Tent/Temple until the time of her purification is completed.
When the time of her purification is completed, whether for a son or daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence a one-year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. The priest shall present her offering to the Lord and perform the ritual to take away her impurity, and she will be ritually clean. This, then, is what a woman must do after giving birth.
If the woman cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two doves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering, and the priest
The scriptures reveal that after Joseph and Mary had fulfilled all that was required by the law of the Lord, they returned to their home town of Nazareth in Galilee.
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised. "
Fulfilled by Joseph and Mary".
33 days after the child had been circumcised according to the law, the child was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem, where the ceremony of purification was performed according to time demanded by the Law.
"Fulfilled by Joseph and Mary".
Because they could not afford a Lamb, they offered two young pigeons, which sacrifice was allowed for the poor, because they had not yet received the gifts of gold, etc and would not receive them until the child Jesus was almost two years old, when the Magi would finally arrive in Jerusalem to pay homage to the child that had been born to be King of the Jews.
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ALL’ the regulations required by the Law of the Lord were fulfilled by Joseph and Mary, after which, they returned to their home in Nazareth.
Bulmabriefs is free to believe whatsoever he/she chooses to believe, but if he/she believes that which he/she wrote concerning the circumcision of Jesus, is supported by the Holy Scriptures, then IMO, he/she is in need of serious psychiatric attention.