Col 2 v 11 11  In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature,  not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, "Paul’s point is that the circumcision perform ed in the flesh with human hands is no longer the real or spiritually meaningful circumcision (note especially  Galatians 5:6 , “for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for an ything, but only faith working through love”). ... [I would be remiss not to mention an alternative interpretation of the phrase “th e body of the flesh.” According to this view, by “flesh” Paul means not the physical body of Christ (as above, in an ethically neutral sense) but our sinful, fallen, unregenerate nature, or everything we were in Adam before we came to be in Christ. In this view, “the body of the f lesh” would be similar to what Paul had in mind in  Romans 6:6  when he spoke of “our old self” that was “crucified wit...