Cuts Like a Flint

And if any male who is uncircumcised fails to circumcise the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his kin; he has broken My covenant.

I must confess…this is as strange as it gets. Circumcision. The divine being, the creator of the universe told a very select group of people that you can be mine if you simply lop of your foreskins. Yes, I said your foreskins. No, I’m not kidding.

You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Abraham was 99 years old when he lost his foreskin. (Lost? I made it sound as if he misplaced it.) His son Ishmael was 13. Joseph’s brothers would not consent to giving their sister, Dinah, to a man who was uncircumcised because they considered it a disgrace.

Foreigners who wanted to celebrate passover had to be circumcised.

After the exodus from Egypt, circumcision was put on hold 40 years until Joshua circumcised them all.

Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day as required by the Torah.

There is not a scripture stating Moses was circumcised. It is reasoned that because he was from the tribe of Levi (the ones that really followed the laws), he would have been circumcised on the eighth day. He wasn’t place into the basket until he was three months old. However, circumcision in his case is still an assumption.

Moses’ wife took a flint to their son and circumcised him and touched it(the foreskin) to Moses to save him from being killed by God.

Jesus states that circumcision came from Moses. John, parenthetically, corrects him and says it came from the patriarchs.

Paul had Timothy circumcised but didn’t require Titus do the same.

Later, Paul says circumcised or uncircumcised, it doesn’t matter. All are equal. (I’m not going there.)

God wants to seal the deal, his great contract with Abraham and all the generations to follow by having all the males cut off the foreskin of their penis. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Why?

Why, if we are made in His image, does that image need to be altered to show a connection to God?

God’s first covenant was made with Noah and then he simply used a rainbow. The rainbow seems a bit more reasonable.

I’m sure there are many reasons why listed somewhere, but I keep wondering about how circumcision vs. non-circumcision would be obvious to everyone else. I know it is obvious when you see it, but were the men going around checking each other?

No one has been able to tell me why this makes sense.

~ by bart on February 18, 2008.