<p>2:11 <i>In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ</i>- Through baptism, we enter the &quot;in Christ&quot; status, and our flesh is as it were cut off, by status we are in Him and not in the flesh. This is repeated in Paul's argument in Romans 1-8, although there he stresses that our flesh still remains; but from God's perspective, it is cut off. It takes faith to believe this- faith in God's operation, that the circumcision operation was really performed by Him (2:12). Baptism is the means by which we become &quot;in Christ&quot; and in spiritual terms cease to be uncircumcised (2:13).</p>