Did/Will/Would you circumcise?

I didn't circumcise my 5-year-old and my second boy due next month will not be either. I don't believe in it morally and also thete is no clear health reason to warrant removing that sensitive part of the body.

I have girls but I would not have. I have 4 nephews and none of them are circumcised. My sister talked to her OB a lot about it and did lots of research. There is really just no reason except for religious or cultural

The reason for circumcision was to maintain a covenant with God in Mosaic law. Jesus made a new covenant with us. Peter explicitly brought the gospel to the uncircumcised gentiles so they too could be saved. There is just no reason for it.

You know. Unless you're Jewish and believe you're still under the law of Moses.

yep yep 🙂 . no issues but do what you wish

@Elizabeth hi, that's ok. Basically when Abraham and God created a covenant in the book of Genesis (specifically Genesis 17), circumcision was one of the markers of Abraham's descendants.. a symbol of cutting off the flesh to be closer to God. There is a lapse of circumcision in later books that Moses rectifies with his own son in Exodus and then is rectified again in Joshua bc the generation born in the desert weren't circumcized. Each time is to renew closeness and obedience to God. But Jesus is the flesh that makes us close to God now and is the final act of obedience that binds us humans to God (when we accept him). Other terms of later covenant law like eating pork and sacrificing animals can be done away thanks to Jesus as well. 1 and 2 Peter's letters go on to say that gentiles can be converted and accept Jesus without the surgery.

So, it is not a matter of cleanliness. Anecdotally, 8 combined years of intimacy with uncircumcised men (and 1.5 years with a circumcised man) shows me that we don't need to think of foreskin that way, and if you're not Jewish, it's just a cultural reflexive phenomenon that's strange to me.

I did at my husbands request. He said im not a man and I dont know what its truly like. So I did and I regret it. I told my husband that I refuse to have any other child circumcised. We've had 2 girls since. It was barbaric and traumatic for me. I cant imagine the trauma my son is carrying in his body from that. Just horrible. They take your baby into another room but I told the doctor I would not leave him. Still haunts me 4 years later.