OUR FATHER WHO IS IMPARTIAL AND PROVIDES THE SAME OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SAME SALVATION THROUGH THE SAME FAITH TOALL MEN

For those who were trying to assert among the believers in Rome  that circumcision was a requirement of righteousness, the Apostle Paul, in the book of Romans chapter 4 verses 9 - 12, refuted their doctrines by demonstrating that Abraham was actually confered with righteousness through faith before he was circumcised. Paul explains that the circumcision that Abraham underwent was a seal of the righteousness that was granted to him by faith. It was a visible symbol of the cutting away of the flesh and its works leaving only faith as the mechanism of gaining righteousness.

9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.

Abraham, by his pre-circumcision faith, became the father of all those were uncircumcised who would believe and righteousness through faith was to be imputed to them. Abraham was also the biological father of those to whom the law came and they were of the circumcision but in their circumcision, still needed to receive righteousness by faith just as their father Abraham walked in faith prior to his circumcision. 

Amen

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