(July 29, 2014 at 3:16 pm)SteveII Wrote: More probable is that since circumcision was a sign of the conenant between God and Israel, early church fathers saw no logical need to extend the practive to Christians (who were not Jews). Making this even more probable is that the Jewish dietary laws (and other requirements) were not ported over to Christianity either which would not be quite the marketing headache that circumcision was.
Most probable is that these early church fathers wasted no time in establishing Christianity's most defining trait (other than all the violence, hate and oppression): quietly agreeing to ignore all the parts of the Old Testament law they found personally difficult or inconvenient. This is a practice which Jesus warned in the Sermon on the Mount would immediately rule one out of a heavenly reward, but that has stopped approximately zero Christians, as best I can tell.
