As to salvation, there is nothing that we can do to earn our salvation. You keep putting down the RCC, but your position is far nearer theirs than Protestant, but not even they go as far as saying circumcision is necessary.

When someone asked Jesus what was necessary for salvation, he said keep the ten commandments. When talking to his disciples, he said that he had fulfilled the law, and that those who did as he asked would remain in his love. THIS is what he told us to do - love one another.

None of could ever fulfill God's requirements for heaven. We're just not good enough. There was only one person who ever was good enough and didn't sin at all - Jesus Christ. As Jesus was perfect, he was given as a sacrifice for our sins.

Therefore, the idea that we must somehow "do" things to please God and earn salvation totally undermines what Jesus did for us. It is because of Jesus that we are saved.

There is nothing you can do to earn your salvation, and circumcision is totally meaningless. It's the faith a person has that matters, it's their hope in God, and it's the love in their heart.

Does that mean we can just go out and do what we like? No it doesn't, because if we have Jesus in our heart and we abide in his body (the church) we won't want to do wicked things. We will want to do what is good.

If someone professes faith but sleeps around, lies, steals, slanders people, then their faith "is" dead because it is meaningless. They don't act in a way that honours Jesus.

If they have faith and they do good in life, keep the commandments as best as they can, and don't sin sexually, then their faith is alive.

Jesus says we are known by our fruits, and this is what he means. A person with a living faith will do good things, but a person wiith a faith that is dead will keep on doing bad things.