The Mystery of Christian Circumcision

Colossians chapter 2 is full of mystery–just not the “who done it” type.  It deals with the mystery of how Christians are circumcised.  Circumcised?  Isn’t that Old Testament stuff?  No, it is definitely New Testament, as verse 11 makes clear:  In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.”  Whereas the circumcision of the Old Testament includes putting off a small portion of the flesh, the New Testament circumcision requires a “putting off [of] the body of the flesh”–the whole body.  Thus, New Testament circumcision is an all-encompassing proposition for us.  The mystery deepens as verse 12 links it to our baptism and our being raised with Christ.  Suffice it to say that there is way more going on in our salvation than meets the eye…just sayin’.