further: the people were running to depraved practiced like scarring once body, tests like jumping down towers bound to a rope which when cut too soon will just make you hit the ground, and if cut too late break your back, culluminating in sacrificing the firstborn child. also the israelites really wanted to be like "the other" nations around them which is why they petitioned god to have a king set above them. as such god gave israel one such coming of age ritual to keep them from the worse stuff, and commanded it in such a way it causes the least harm it seems   ation/321462229_haematological_basi s_of_8th_day_male_child_circumcisio n_in_the_holy_bible also modern circumcission is different than the biblocal one. originally they didnt uncover the glans and only cut off the skin that is "too much". the sucking on the freshly cut baby dick is a yet even later invention. > inb4 timothy timothy was half greek, thus not accepted by the people who were very segregationist and isolationist. so in order to have them listen to timothies word they did it as a publicity stunt to boost timothies standing and have people receive christs message > 3paul wanted timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a greek. it was a pr stunt to get people to listen to him, not a religious practice, and as paul himself said > 1it is for freedom that christ has set us free. stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery. 2take notice: i, paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, christ will be of no value to you at all. > inb4 he cant see the difference between a religiously ordained ritual and a pr stunt
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