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It is a way of life too... Just like it was righteous of Noah not only to have faith in what God required of him but to do it.
When Abraham asked if the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah were going to be doomed along with the wicked, Abraham was asking about those who were good people living in the faith in the city. Maybe not perfectly...

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May He cleanse your heart of all unrighteousness. May you receive His forgiveness that takes all the guilt burdens off your shoulders. May you receive the peace that passes all understanding. May He lay His robe of righteousness on your shoulders so that you may experience a one on one talk with Him [Rev 3:20. ] May He grant you the gift of His eyes to see the world as He sees it, the gift of His ears so that you may hear it as He hears it, and the gift of discernment so that you can understand...

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This is what brought the counsel together, was the need to decide on the circumcision issue. The idea that you can not be saved without being circumcised was the argument.
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Paul still identified himself as a Pharisee

Acts 23:6
6But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

As a good Pharisee,...

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Since Abraham is the Father of Circumcision, it never hurts to study the subject of circumcision starting with him... When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty ; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. With these words God and Abram entered into a relationship and Abram's part is to walk in God's Laws, commandments, statutes and be circumcized.
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