Deedat’s purpose here is to take a swipe at Christians because he knows that Christians are not required to be circumcised. He is trying to say that it is a command from God for all who follow him so thus should be applied to Christians as well as Jews. Circumcision was given to Abraham as sign that they were in the covenant with God and part of the nation that was to come later. Later on circumcision became part of the law that was given to Moses. This made circumcision a sign of obedience to the law for Jews.

Christians are under a new covenant so we are not required to try and keep the law of Moses including the circumcision part. Paul warned that anyone who seeks to be circumcised as a means to be right with God has to keep the whole law (Galatians 5:2-6). Verse 6 says For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love”. This along with other verses in the new Testament makes it clear to us that we don’t have to be circumcised. We (males) can be circumcised for medical reasons etc but it is never to used as a part of our spiritual journey.

 

Regards the part about being cut off, there is no evidence in this passage or elsewhere that it is referring to being killed but rather to being excommunicated from the Jews. Again Deedat is trying to justify the Islamic practice of killing apostates as he did in section 5.