"For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God." (Romans 2:25-29)

       The Hebrew Roots Movement is an effort to reinstate Mosaic customs and rituals in the New Testament. One of those points of emphasis is circumcision. Yet, the Apostle Paul tells us that it is not physical circumcision that matters, but circumcision of the heart. If we are supposed to be observing the Torah, then his words would have been unthinkable! Circumcision was something commanded in the Old Testament (Genesis 17:10-14). Paul obviously could not have advocated reverting to Judaism. Circumcision is of no avail to us because we have all broken the Law of God.