Did God make an engineering error when he designed "in" the penis foreskin.?

Question

If you go by science God did not get his doctorate. If you believe God is infoulable then we must be missing something about foreskin in translation. I think God screwed up. So Abraham corrected the problem. Or did he cause a problem. What gets into the head of a man who gets up one morning and goes and cuts the end of his penis off? Is that a reasonable philosophy?

Answer 1

No he did not make an error.

"If you go by science God did not get his doctorate."
You've got it all wrong.

No medical institution in the world actually recommends circumcision.
Let's have a look at medical associations in the developed world. The British Medical Association, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Canadian Paediatric Society, American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Australian College of Paediatrics and Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons. Every one of them recommends AGAINST performing the procedure. Their positions on the procedure can be found here: http://www.circumcision.org/position.htm


Here is a video of the operation. Watch it if you want to learn more. Please do watch it.
http://youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=XmX6RdRNoqk
Or this video:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=352478&fr=ybr_sbc
It is not just a little snip here and there. Watch the above video of a circumcision in progress.


The foreskin keeps the glans soft and moist and protects it from trauma and injury. Without this protection, the glans becomes dry, calloused, and desensitized from exposure and chafing.
Specialized nerve endings in the foreskin enhance sexual pleasure.
The foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood.
[ http://www.nocirc.org/publish/pamphlet7.html ]

"Circumcision removes the most sensitive parts of the penis and decreases the fine-touch pressure sensitivity of glans penis. The most sensitive regions in the uncircumcised penis are those parts ablated by circumcision. When compared to the most sensitive area of the circumcised penis, several locations on the uncircumcised penis that are missing from the circumcised penis were significantly more sensitive." Circumcision removes as much as 75% of sensation [ http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/bju_6685.pdf ].

The foreskin reduces the force required by the penis to enter the vagina. It also increases the sexual enjoyment of the female partner. Here is a study to back this up: http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohara/

Performing circumcision on a child can and does result in the deaths of children due to blood loss and/or failure of the immune system.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=512542
Approximately 230 American males die every year because of circumcision. [ http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/deathsdo.htm , http://www.cirp.org/library/death/ ] This is a meaningless and very sad loss of life.

It can and does result in very significant scaring.
It can and does result in sexual problems later in life.

Circumcised males have a much higher rate of sexual dysfunction and premature ejaculation. [ http://www.cirp.org/library/sex_function/ ]


The vast majority of the world(83%) is not circumcised.
There is no good reason to perform male genital mutilation.

About circumcision bias: http://www.circumcision.org/bias.htm
Ethical questions: http://circumcision.org/bioethics.htm
Ethics: http://circumcision.org/ethics.htm
Circumcision Information: http://www.circumcision.org/information.htm


See these sites specifically:
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
http://www.mgmbill.org/
http://www.nocirc.org/
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.noharmm.org/
http://www.norm.org/

Here is a tracking of circumcision news articles which is kept very up to date:
http://www.cirp.org/news/

Have a look at this website:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9712/23/circumcision.anesthetic/

Have a look at this video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1736954830543671382&sourceid=searchfeed

Here are some very significant articles on circumcision that I recommend:
http://www.birthingthefuture.com/AllAboutBirth/circumcision.php
http://www.compleatmother.com/articles3/femalecircumcision.shtml

Answer 2

Hmmm. This is an interesting question. I believe in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit. I also believe that they are perfect in every way.
I have my own questions, like, why did god create Misquotes that bite humans.

The Bible explains that Man's way/thoughts/reasoning are not always alligned with God's ways. So God could have a specific reason for his actions that Man cannot comprehend.

I don't think that God "screwed up" because he made males have foreskin, I think that he had a purpose for it, but Man screwed up somewhere, somehow, and God stepped in and made an adjustment.

Also, read Genesis or Exodus, I forget which book, but God told Abraham to cut the foreskin off, so it wouldn't be Abraham correcting God's "mistake."

Answer 3

The Jewish religion says that God gave it to man and commanded the foreskin be removed when the baby was eight days old, of course only if the baby was medically fit and approved for it by then. This act signals that the child is holy and a part of the Jewish race. The purpose of the foreskin is just like any other imperfection in humans. God gives us flaws/difficulties and He wants us to overcome them, so that He can reward us in Heaven.

Answer 4

If there were 15 or so other hominids that are now extinct, then what are we? ...the new and improved model?

Anyway, what about some of our useless appendages? such as appendix, body hair, man nipples, tail bone, and i'm sure there are others i left out.

But regarding the head of the penis, the circular enlarged area evolved from those who wanted to get there genes into the forefront, the enlarged area would 'sweep out' out the sperm of previous 'donors.' This would give them a better chance for their line to survive.

Answer 5

God is perfect and He created everything perfect.

Sri Isopanisad comfirm thsi in this verse:
"The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance."
PURPORT
The Complete Whole, the Personality of Godhead, has immense potencies, all of which are as complete as He is. Thus this phenomenal world is also complete in itself. The twenty-four elements of which this material universe is a temporary manifestation are arranged to produce everything necessary for the maintenance and subsistence of this universe. No other unit in the universe need make an extraneous effort to try to maintain the universe. The universe functions on its own time scale, which is fixed by the energy of the Complete Whole, and when that schedule is completed, this temporary manifestation will be annihilated by the complete arrangement of the Complete Whole.
All facilities are given to the small complete units (namely the living beings) to enable them to realize the Complete Whole. All forms of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete knowledge of the Complete Whole. The human form of life is a complete manifestation of the consciousness of the living being.

Of course there is imperfection in this cosmic universal body as well in our material bodies, and because is material is, therefore, the source of all disieses. God is the Supreme male, we are created in His image. We have foreskin in penis because He has. As is comfirm in Srimad bhagavatam: 1.1.1
"janmädy asya yata......"
"O my Lord, Sri Krishna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krishna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes."
The words janmädy asya [SB 1.1.1] suggest that the source of all production, maintenance or destruction is the same supreme conscious person. Even in our present experience we can know that nothing is generated from inert matter, but inert matter can be generated from the living entity.
As God also says:
"The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.'
This material body is just a machine, and as any material machime must have difects, but not in the sense that you are pont it out.

I don't know the circumstances with Abraham in the Bible, because i don't study the bible. I am sorry. But i think it must be a reason for what He order that.