Why did God create men with foreskin if he wanted it cut off soon after?

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mstbooblover · Accepted Answer

Very delicate question, not because of the plain physical and medical aspect, but because of what an answer implies for sometimes fanatical religious people.

God or Nature, depending on your convictions, gave men a foreskin for plain protection reasons of the penis. But sometimes diseases can develop beneath it. I guess the forefathers became aware of that problem and just made a religious and symbolic feature of cutting it off. We must be aware of the health conditions back then. Much more can be said about the subject, but here is not the place to develop it further.

slatyb · Accepted Answer

Life is so much easier to understand if you stop imagining that things are a result of some Godly desire. Our anatomy, every animals anatomy, is the result of millions of years of random mutations and natural selection. That’s why animals including us have vestigial parts. Horses and dogs have vestigial digits, not for any purpose, but because that’s how evolution works. The tiny bones of our ears are repurposed jaw bones.

lilyanony1 · Accepted Answer

The body is created perfectly as it is.
In some situations the skin gets tight and can cause problems, it's my belief that under those circumstances it needs to be cut back.
I think the times when it was written for it to be a tradition. Perhaps infections and diseases prevailed. Education wasn't as it is now, including the invention of soap.
So it was perhaps a safety mechanism.

Prevention better than cure.

It's not a practise that is conducted here in the uk unless medically required.

WonderBell99 · Accepted Answer

You might not like my opinion on this one— but I’m against genital mutilation in general.(Both male and female)

I wouldn’t circumcise my son, if I ever have one in the future. It’s completely unnecessary and has no health benefits whatsoever.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Well that's because he didn't and he don't exist and didn't create us in anyway perfect and there is likelihood Forskin removal became a thing to clean ourselves more easily with the amount of infections and dirt that would of easier happened down there.
And also possibly, that jews had a higher rates of Phimosis. Aka getting there forskin stuck.

But that's just my thoughts. Forskin is kinda useless anyway so why would a god create us with it in the first place? lmao.

Religion really thinks god created our bodies it's funny.

ManHater · Answer

okay okay first of all during ww2 those men who dropped their drawers and were cut were jews and killed that's good. so after ww2 the Jews said yes you stupid Christians its good for your health. a lie to say that if there was ever hitler 2.0 he would have a hard time telling because most parents were stupid. Honestly god if there was one is not stupid and he made it for a god damn reason. You think that stupid jew cutting your kids dick off knows more than you? Humans know everything? fuck no! Might as well lvl 3 cut little girls cunts out since those African Muslims apes say its okay!

Ms_Vanderquack · Answer

Dude, don’t look for logic in religious doctrines. You are just going to give yourself a headache.

Citizenkirk · Answer

Because God wasn't sure whether he wanted a Jewish son or a non-jewish son where Europeans son since they get to keep theirs forever and Jewish ones they lose theirs I think will around 12:00 and the other ones like myself we've lost theirs before we even knew we had them like right after we came out of our mom's first cord, then the skin, snippety snip just like that

Agape93 · Answer

So he could ask that you mutilate yourself to show loyalty, in a time without disinfectant or anesthesia

FunkyMonkee · Answer

In the first place, "he" didn't. There's no such thing as god. Secondly, the foreskin is nothing more than the labia we WOULD'VE had if we were born female. The biggest reason it's cut off is, cleanliness. It's also possible that it's cut off to reduce the sexual sensitivity.

Quidthonian · Answer

Religious commitment;
Practical reasons of hygiene in desert environment;
God has a strange sense of humour. He "proved" it on 26 Dec 2021, when he asked Archbishop Desmond Tutu (South African anti-Apartheid) to join him permanently on his side of the world.

Lillie_xo · Answer

well i guess it would be because it shows your parents or your own loyalty to him if theyre willing to mutilate you in his name or you're willing to do it yourself later in life

Msputiton · Answer

90% of what is claimed god does or said is not true, that is people corrupting the word of the lord to fit their agenda

Madhatter920 · Answer

Because he didn't. People did bathe back then, so their foreskin kept getting infected. They interpreted this as God not wanting them to have foreskin, so they cut it off. There is no god, there's just disease and infection. Wash your dick.

NamerOfStars · Answer

He didn't. It was part of a test that Abraham botched- just like he was prepared to sacrifice Isaac. What set Yahweh apart from other local gods wasn't just omnipresence, but a desire to have followers who weren't unthinking slaves.

LovingLoverReturned · Answer

To show their devotion to him and distinguish themselves from others as his first peoples (chosen). Side note: Aesthetically, it's a thing too.

Dargil · Answer

It wasn't soon after. Our ancestors have been around for eons. The foreskin protected us from damage. When Judaism emerged, we wore clothes to protect us. Circumcision is a symbol of submission to G0d.

CarolineW · Answer

He didn't. It's just a stupid religious tradition that's completely unnecessary in the 21st century

Anonymous · Answer

Because he didn't order for circumcision. God doesn't care about that. That's the problem with religion. They add on a bunch of random shit and ruin it.

MelonSoda · Answer

He didn't want it to be cut off, people chose to do that.

Tamera952 · Answer

Good question, I suppose the answer is simple: he didn't.

MrOracle · Answer

My Pastafarian deity does not require dick mutilation. Perhaps you've chosen the wrong god.

just_a_potato · Answer

Because it's bullshit. I personally don't want to circumcise my boys in the future but I'm worried people will make fun of them in their adulthood, even though most of the world is uncircumcised 💀

jshm2 · Answer

The same reason he created hair, finger and toes nails that we need to cut off soon after. You're not the brightest, are you, kiddo?

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