Circumcision: Things I need to Know (The Genesis Series, Part 41)

Whose report will I believe?  All the offspring of Adam and Eve are confronted by this question: Whose report will I believe? The mold was cast in Genesis Chapter 3 in the Garden of Eden.  Eve, the mother of all living, finds her belief in Word of God challenged by Satan.  Unfortunately for all of mankind and Grandmother Eve, she cast off her faith in God’s Word and embraced the satanic spirit of unbelief.  Her husband, Adam, followed her pernicious ways and the door of sin and death swung wide open. The day that they, in an act of unbelief and disobedience, ate of the forbidden fruit, dramatic things happened: It appears they died the second death first—they were booted out of Paradise and cherubims were dispatched to block access to the Tree of Life—and, yes, the law of sin and death began it’s reign upon this earth.  As a result of Adam and Eve’s sin, all of their children—including you and me—were spiritually stillborn, thus the need to be BORN AGAIN.  Jesus describes it in John 3:3:

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.         

God’s Word speaks of our condition prior to salvation in Ephesians 2:1:

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:

Quicken means make alive.  This happens at the place Jesus calls BORN AGAIN—born a literal second time, this time of the Spirit of God.  But, whose report will you believe? 

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Today you will receive a new eternal Saviour, a new eternal Father, a new in-dwelling Holy Ghost, a new name, and a new eternal purpose.  Today, all your sin and shame will be washed away by Christ’s cleansing blood.  You will be pristine clean.  Today, all of Satan’s bondages in your life will be broken.  The word is ALL.  Whose report will you believe?  Here is the prompt I promised: Click onto Further with Jesus for childlike instructions and immediate entry into the Kingdom of God.  NOW FOR TODAY’S SUBJECT.

GOD SAID, Genesis 17:10-14:

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

GOD SAID, Colossians 2:10-11:

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

GOD SAID, Proverbs 26:2:

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

MAN SAID: Circumcision has no real value! In 1971, the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics said, "Circumcision may have some religious reason but it delivers no medical benefit whatsoever." Up until that time, male circumcision was routine in America.

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You have arrived at the GodSaidManSaid “Genesis Series;” this is Part 41.  Each of these features begins with the following information from the first feature:

According to a 2006 issue of Discover magazine concerning the deceased Carl Sagan: “Sagan approaches religion like any phenomenon.  He isn’t on a quest for life’s meaning, for a comforting philosophy, or even a guide to how we should treat the neighbors.  Sagan seeks truth of a demonstrable kind.  As a puckish example, he wonders why the book of Genesis didn’t include God-inspired truths…” [End of quote]

I recently reviewed an advertisement from a magazine called Free Inquiry that also has a problem with the God of Creation and the first book of the Bible, called Genesis.  Under the heading “Is God Big Enough for the Universe,” Free Inquiry writes:

The authors of Genesis proclaim that God made the heavens and earth in less than a week.  This feat must have amazed these Bronze Age authors, even though they thought the heavens extended only so far as the sky above them.  Of course, they did not know what stars, planets, or galaxies were.  We now know that the universe is so much bigger and so much more complex. [End of quote]

The BORN AGAIN scratch their heads in bewilderment.  Did these folks actually read the book of Genesis? I suppose they did, but God’s revelation is only revealed to the humbled hearts of the children of faith.  This GodSaidManSaid series will be called “The Genesis Series.”  It is our intention to travel through the entire book of Genesis and publish one major God-inspired truth after another.  We will be pulling from previous GodSaidManSaid features and adding the latest information as we go.

Before we begin this Genesis Series feature regarding the Bible’s commandment regarding male circumcision, several points need some attention:

📌 NOTE: Male circumcision, which is the Old Testament token of the covenant and required by God for one to participate in covenant promises, has been fulfilled in Christ.  Matthew 5:17:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Jesus Christ came to fulfil the law.  For example, we no longer have animal sacrifices for they were only a shadow of the Cross of Christ to come. The blood sacrifice was fulfilled at Calvary, and in like manner, the requirement for male circumcision has been fulfilled. Romans 2:28-29:

28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

An interesting point is the Old Testament circumcision involves the male reproductive organ, by which the seed of man populates.  In the New Testament, circumcision of the heart is required.  The heart is also a life-organ, both physically and spiritually.  Proverbs 4:23:

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.  

Male circumcision is no longer required. 

📌 NOTE: All of God’s commandments have first a spiritual component and second, a physical one.  Keep in mind that the biology of man has not changed from the Old Testament to the New.  While it is true that the dietary laws of the Old Testament are, for the most part, fulfilled in Christ, for believers can now sanctify the food they eat with the prayer of faith, over 90% of this world have no such power.  It would be wise of them to follow God’s dietary laws because they have real, physical, scientifically-proven benefit.  The same principle applies to male circumcision.

📌 NOTE: Occasionally, it is asked why God required the Old Testament removal of the male foreskin in the act of circumcision in the first place, since He originally made man with that body part, and will point out Genesis 1:31, which reads:

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The answer to this seeming contradiction is found in the Garden of Eden.  When Adam and Eve fell, they ushered in the law of sin and death.  In the field of science, this is called the second law of thermodynamics.  This law states that all things go from order to disorder, from life unto death.  This is a cardinal law of the universe.  God’s creation was defiled and no longer “very good,” and God gave commandments accordingly. 

📍 EXAMPLE: In the beginning when things were “very good,” all creatures were vegetarians, even the lions, the bears, and the humans.  Because of the fall, spiritual and biological changes happened immediately.  In the days of Noah, the changes became atmospheric and geologic—very deadly changes. After the fall, man began to eat other creatures and God responded with specific dietary laws to mitigate sundry problems that would arise.  Things were no longer “very good.” 

📍 EXAMPLE: Because of the fall, man inherited traits of the fallen, spawned by Lucifer, and one of these inherited traits was murder.  In response, God introduced the law of capital punishment to inhibit such activity. Things were no longer “very good.” 

📍 EXAMPLE: Because of the fall, terrible deeds that had devastating, contagious effects began to pollute the human community, directly affecting male and female sexual organs.  These deeds included fornication, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, and more, and generated an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and other maladies.  In response, God commands male children to be circumcised in part to lessen the spread of diseases.  Things were no longer “very good.”  You will note in this feature the colossal physical benefits of male circumcision. 

The following paragraphs are from the GodSaidManSaid feature, “Should Your Child Be Circumcised?” 

Consistently, science arrives at their eureka! moment, just to find that God’s Word has already recorded their “latest discovery” thousands of years earlier in its written text.  Most are oblivious to the Scriptural record due to a lack of schooling, as in Sunday schooling.  Have no fear, God’s students of the Bible are prepared and happy to set the record straight.  Today’s feature regarding the Bible and its position on male circumcision will demonstrate this point.

To those who point out that male circumcision has been fulfilled in Christ, and is not required for New Testament salvation, we respond that that observation is absolutely true.  However, keep in mind that the vast majority of the citizens of this world (as in the 90%-plus range) do not possess Christian credentials.  Also note that all of God’s commandments have a spiritual and physical component.  The physical benefits of male circumcision are as real today as they were when Abraham received the commandment.  The basic biology of man has not changed from the Old Testament to the New, nor has it changed through today. 

The world’s academics have been brought to the table kicking and screaming. “No way,” they lament. “No way can God’s Word be confirmed, again and again and again!”  It’s against their religion of unbelief.  Their lack of schooling (as in Sunday schooling) is stamped on their foreheads. 

The following excerpts are from the GodSaidManSaid feature, “Male Circumcision, A Living Commandment: ‘When Thou Wast in Thy Blood’:”     

In 1971, the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics said, “Circumcision may have some religious reason, but it delivers no medical benefit whatsoever.”  Up until that time, male circumcision was routine in America.  [Keep in mind what you just read the next time you hear “follow the science.” [End of quotes]

Circumcision is the token of God’s covenant with Abraham and his seed; according to Ezekiel 16:6 quoted earlier, it is associated with life.  Thousands of years before man’s science comes knocking, he finds that God is already there.  Because the inerrant God is the author of the Scriptures, every position He takes is beyond error—that really galls the camp of the ungodly.  The issue of circumcision is an excellent example of this. [End of quotes]

The following excerpts are from the GodSaidManSaid feature, “You Better Believe God is Right (Circumcision’s Global Metastudy):”

The token of God’s covenant with Abraham is male circumcision, which is performed on the newborn baby boy on the 8^th day.  Not the first, third, or fifth day; the Bible is very clear that circumcision is to take place on the 8^th day of a baby boy’s life.  

Genesis 17:10-14:

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

Not the first, third, or fifth day; the Bible is clear that it must be the eight day.  Keep that in mind as we move along. 

The resistance to male circumcision has been intense ever since God commanded Abraham to circumcise all newborn males, but it is beginning to wane. The skeptics are being forced to concede (again) that God’s 4,000-year-old directive concerning circumcision was simply the right thing to do all along. Before we get to the new meta study compiled by the National Library of Medicine, several foundational excerpts from previous GodSaidManSaid features will be quoted.

◉ GodSaidManSaid, “Male Circumcision, A Living Commandment: “When Thou Wast in the Blood:”

Adherents to the Scriptures know that God''s commandments deliver very real physical as well as spiritual benefits. But just as the Old Testament''s blood sacrifice, Passover celebration, Sabbath observation, dietary laws (which were all shadows of the coming Messiah), were fulfilled in Christ, so has the Godly dictum of circumcision also been fulfilled. The following nine verses in the New Testament concern the principle of fulfillment: Romans 2:28-29, I Corinthians 7:18, Galatians 6:15-16, Philippians 3:1-3, and Colossians 2:10-11. But, it must be noted that the supernatural benefits of Christ''s fulfillment of the law are not relevant to the vast, vast majority of the world in its unregenerated state, and for them, adherence to the commandments is physically critical. The physical benefits of male circumcision are monumental.  [End of quote]

Keep in mind, the biology of man and woman has not changed from Abraham’s day to today.

◉ GodSaidManSaid, “Update—Vestigial Organs and Circumcision:”

The August 24, 2009 headline in the New York Times reads, “Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V. Risk.”  The following information is from that release:

Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

The topic is a delicate one that has already generated controversy, even though a formal draft of the proposed recommendations, due out from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of the year, has yet to be released.

Experts are also considering whether the surgery should be offered to adult heterosexual men whose sexual practices put them at high risk of infection.

The following was the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to the New York Times in 2009:

Circumcision rates have fallen in part because the American Academy of Pediatrics, which sets the guidelines for infant care, does not endorse routine circumcision.  Its policy says that circumcision is “not essential to the child’s current well-being,” and as a result, many state Medicaid programs do not cover the operation.

The academy is revising its guidelines, however, and is likely to do away with the neutral tone in favor of a more encouraging policy stating that circumcision has health benefits even beyond H.I.V. prevention, like reducing urinary tract infections for baby boys, said Dr. Michael Brady, a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics. [End of quotes]

◉ Again from the GodSaidManSaid article, “Male Circumcision, A Living Commandment:”

American Cancer Society published an article in 2002 concerning cancer of the cervix. The article''s title is "New Study Shows Benefit of Male Circumcision." The following paragraphs are from that article:

Women are less likely to develop cancer of the cervix if their partners are circumcised men rather than men who are not circumcised, said a report in The New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 346, No. 15: 1105-1112).

Experts believe a penis that has been circumcised is less likely to harbor human papilloma virus (HPV), a virus associated with almost all cases of cervical cancer.

Circumcision has become controversial in recent years. Its advocates in the medical community argue that it prevents urinary tract infections in male babies. It also lowers sexually transmitted infections with HPV that cause genital warts in men. Finally, penile cancer arises less often in men who were circumcised as babies.

Those who do not support the use of circumcision believe that these reasons don''t make up for the pain and possible "mutilation" it causes, as well as the occasional complications.

Now a group of international researchers, led by Xavier Castellsague, MD, of the Lobregat Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, have uncovered another reason to favor circumcision. They found that women whose partners were uncircumcised were more likely to develop cancer of the cervix.

The researchers also tested for HPV infection in the males by taking specimens from their penises. The results were matched with whether the men were circumcised.

The first discovery was that men who weren''t circumcised were more than twice as likely to be infected with HPV. In both groups, the chance of HPV infection increased with high-risk sexual activity such as unprotected sex, early age of first sexual activity, and number of partners.

But even more striking was the effect on their partners. Women whose male partners were uncircumcised and had high-risk sexual behavior were two to five times more likely to develop cervical cancer. This high rate of cancer was almost certainly caused by the high rate of HPV infection in these men. [End of quote]

In the April 27, 2006 issue of Medical News Today, under the heading, "Circumcision and Fidelity More Effective HIV Prevention Method Than Condoms, Abstinence, Researchers Say," the following excerpts were found:

Promoting male circumcision and fidelity to one partner seems to be more effective at curbing the spread of HIV than promoting abstinence and condom use, USAID researcher and technical adviser Daniel Halperin said last week, the Chicago Tribune reports. As Halperin and other researchers analyze 20 years of studies on HIV/AIDS throughout Africa, they have tried to "put aside intuitions, emotions, ideologies and look at the evidence in as coldhearted a way as we can."

In comparison, faithfulness to one partner has worked at reducing HIV prevalence in Uganda and Kenya, according to Halperin. Because a person is more likely to transmit HIV during the first three weeks of contracting the virus, an HIV-positive person who has just one partner during that time is likely to pass the disease to that one person. But if an HIV-positive person in the highly infectious stage has many sexual partners at a time, "the virus spreads like wildfire" as those people in turn have sex with other people, Halperin said. In addition, circumcision has been shown to reduce male-to-female HIV transmission by 60% to 75% (Goering, Chicago Tribune, 4/23). A study published in the November 2005 issue of PLOSMedicine of men living in South Africa finds that male circumcision might reduce the risk of men contracting HIV through sexual intercourse with women by about 60%. Male circumcision might also reduce the risk of HIV transmission from HIV-positive men to their female partners, according to a study of couples in Rakai, Uganda (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 2/9). [End of quote]

In the December 2006 issue, The International Jerusalem Post weighed in on the subject of male circumcision under the heading, "Israeli experts: Circumcision helps fight AIDS." The following statements are from that article:

Israeli experts are urging a visiting World Health Organization (WHO) team to promote circumcisions of both adults and newborns in the Third World to help reduce HIV transmission.

Current research shows that six in 10 circumcised men are immune to HIV infection, but only about a fifth of men around the world have been circumcised for religious, medical, or cultural reasons.

The following paragraphs are from a December 2006 news release published by Reuters under the headline, "U.N. Urges Circumcision In AIDS-Hit Southern Africa:"

AIDS-stricken Southern African nations should develop a policy of mass male circumcision to fight the disease, the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS agency said on Tuesday.

Several recent medical studies have reported circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection among men by 50-60 percent, and the findings have been backed by UNAIDS.

"These (African) countries should now prepare how to introduce circumcision on a large scale," UNAIDS chief Dr. Peter Piot told Reuters. "The science is clear."

The following is a quick bullet point review of GodSaidManSaid''s first article on this topic titled, "Circumcision:"

◾ Birth records of 219,755 male children born in U.S. Armed Forces hospitals from 1975 to 1979 were examined. It was found that the uncircumcised experienced an 1100% higher incidence of urinary tract infections. After nine different studies were reviewed, the finding was that the uncircumcised suffered urinary tract infections 12 times more often than those who were circumcised.

◾ The uncircumcised are 800% more likely to acquire AIDS via a heterosexual relationship.

◾ In 1947, a study of 1,300 consecutive patients in a Canadian Army unit showed that being uncircumcised was associated with a nine-fold higher risk of syphilis and three times more gonorrhea.

◾ In 50,000 penile cancer cases recorded in the U.S., 49,990 were among uncircumcised men. Only ten of those cancer victims were circumcised! Ten thousand of the 50,000 penile cancer cases died as a result of the disease.

◾Uncircumcised men have twice the incidence of prostate cancer.

◾ Later in a man''s life, the uncircumcised are twice as likely to have erectile dysfunction as his circumcised counterpart.

◾ Studies have documented higher rates of cervical cancer in women who have had one or more uncircumcised partners. The benefits from male circumcision run on and on. [End of quotes]

It is astonishing that the detractors of God’s Word continue to resist.  Millions are sick and suffering, dying and dead as a result of man’s rebellion.  The following Associated Press feature, titled “Study: Male Circumcision Helps Prevent 2 STDs,” was published March 25, 2009.  The following excerpts are from that feature:

LOS ANGELES—Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study found.  Circumcised males reduced their risk of infection with HPV, or human papillomavirus, by 35 percent and herpes by 28 percent.

One last fact to remember is that God commanded the male child to be circumcised on the eighth day. Why the eighth day? On the eighth day of the human life span, vitamin K, which causes blood to clot, reaches its peak—the very day God commanded circumcision to be performed.

The following information is from Dr. Grant Jeffrey’s book, The Signature of God:

Following the instruction of God, Moses commanded the circumcision of all Jewish boys on the eighth day following their birth (Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3).  For thousands of years, righteous Jews have obeyed the circumcision commandment as a sign that they accept the covenant with God.  It is interesting that Muslims may choose to circumcise their male children at any point from age three until their thirteenth birthday.  Scientists have been examining the biological processes that lead to blood clotting.  The rapid healing of a wound begins with clotting of the blood. Any wound that fails to clot and that continues to bleed, especially in a primitive environment, will provide a tremendous likelihood of infection and death. 

Modern medical science has discovered that the blood-clotting chemical prothrombin peaks to its highest level when a newborn reaches the eighth day after birth. On this day as well, the liver is developing vitamin K, which assists in blood clotting.  These two clotting agents, vitamin K and prothrombin, rise to the highest level (110% of normal) on the eighth day following birth.  Without vitamin K and prothrombin, blood will not clot properly, and the possibility of severe bleeding as well as infection would make circumcision dangerous in a primitive medical situation. [End of quote]

God said to circumcise the male child over 40 centuries before medical science had the foggiest idea of the benefits. He commanded it to be performed on the eighth day. This is just another proof that God is.

Circumcision: God commanded it and inside this commandment is a blessing or a curse.  Believe the beautiful Book.  It is true and righteous altogether—a place to build a life that will last forever. [End of quotes]

The August 19, 2017 headline of Science News reads: “Penis Microbes May Up HIV Risk.”  Several paragraphs from the article follow:

Out-of-whack microbes in the vagina can raise HIV risk—and now there’s evidence that the makeup of the penis microbiome matters, too.  The greater the number of anaerobic bacteria tucked under the foreskin, the more likely an uncircumcised man is to become infected with the virus, Cindy Liu of George Washington University in Washington, DC, and colleagues report July 25 in mBio.

The researchers swabbed the penises of heterosexual Ugandan men to collect bacteria. Two years later, the team compared the bacterial composition of 46 uncircumcised men who contracted HIV during the study with that of 136 uncircumcised men who didn’t. 

The total amount of penile bacteria didn’t differ. But men with 10 times as many Prevotella Dialister, Finegoldia, and Peptoniphilus anaerobic bacteria had a 54 to 63 percent increased risk of HIV after controlling for other risk factors. 

The results may help explain why circumcision cuts HIV risk, says Thomas Hope, a cell biologist at Northwestern University’s medical school in Chicago: Removing the foreskin takes away a moist hideout for bacteria that thrive in oxygen-starved places. [End of quote]

The National Library of Medicine offers HHS (human health services) articles via public access.  These resources are scientific literature databases offered to the public by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), which collects, indexes, and archives scientific literature published by other organizations. One such resource is the results of a meta-study compiled by the NLM concerning male circumcision.  The following information is from the May 30, 2022 compilation under the title, “Evidence-Based Circumcision Policy for Australia:”

The aim was (1) to perform an up-to-date systematic review of the male circumcision (MC) literature and (2) to determine the number of adverse medical conditions prevented by early MC in Australia.  Searches of PubMed using “circumcision” with 39 keywords and bibliography searches yielded 278 publications meeting our inclusion criteria. Early MC provides immediate and lifetime benefits, including protection against: urinary tract infections, phimosis, inflammatory skin conditions, inferior penile hygiene, candidiasis, various STIs, and penile and prostate cancer.  In female partners, MC reduces risk of STIs and cervical cancer. A risk-benefit analysis found benefits exceeded procedural risks, which are predominantly minor, by approximately 200 to 1.  It was estimated that more than 1 in 2 uncircumcised males will experience an adverse foreskin-related medical condition over their lifetime.  An increase in early MC in Australia to mid-1950s prevalence of 85% from the current level of 18.75% would avoid 77,000 cases of infections and other adverse medical conditions over the lifetime for each annual birth cohort.  Survey data, physiological measurements, and the anatomical location of penile sensory receptors responsible for sexual sensation indicate that MC has no detrimental effect of sexual function, sensitivity, or pleasure.  US studies found that early infant MC is cost saving.  Evidence-based reviews by the AAP and CDC support early MC as a desirable public health measure.

In Victorian times, medical circumcision became popular to prevent syphilis, phimosis, penile cancer, and inferior hygiene.  In the 21^st century, it was approved for protection against HIV in epidemic settings.

Cancer of the penis has a lifetime risk in uncircumcised men of ~1 in 1,000, making it uncommon but not rare.  It is rare in circumcised men, prevalence being 0.00008-0.02 in 1,000.  A study in California found risk was 22-fold higher in uncircumcised men.

Meta analyses found prostate cancer risk is ~10% lower in circumcised men.  Risk reduction was 12% lower in the post-PSA testing era, 16% lower in population-based studies, 17% lower in studies that collected data by personal interview,  41% lower in studies of black race (36% in US and 60% in Canadian studies), and 16% lower for more aggressive prostrate cancer. 

Oncogenic HPV genotypes are responsible for 99% of cervical cancers.  Since women may have a history of circumcised and uncircumcised sexual partners, a large multinational study focused on women who had had only one sexual partner.  Monogamous women whose male partner had a high sexual-behavior risk index (6+ sexual partners and first intercourse prior to 17 years of age) were 82% less likely to have had a cervical cancer diagnosis if their male partner was circumcised. Monogamous women whose male partner had an intermediate risk index and was circumcised were 50% less likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer than if their male partner was uncircumcised. The study examined many factors and being uncircumcised was the strongest risk factor for cervical cancer. [End of quotes]

God’s commandments and precepts, penned thousands of years ago, are the supernatural, inerrant truth. One hundred percent of the time, those who mock and disregard God’s Word will suffer the curse of doing the wrong thing.  Embrace God’s Word, the beautiful Book, and live life, and live it more abundantly.

GOD SAID, Genesis 17:10-14:

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

GOD SAID, Colossians 2:10-11:

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

GOD SAID, Proverbs 26:2:

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

MAN SAID: Circumcision has no real value! In 1971, the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics said, "Circumcision may have some religious reason but it delivers no medical benefit whatsoever." Up until that time, male circumcision was routine in America.

 

Now you have THE RECORD.

 

 

References:

Authorized King James Version

Blumner, R., Free Inquiry

GodSaidManSaid, “Should Your Child be Circumcised? (40 Centuries Ago, God Said Yes; Welcome to Sunday School)”

GodSaidManSaid, “You Better Believe God is Right (Circumcision’s Global Metastudy)”

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