# Circumcision: virtue signaling, adulthood entry ritual, or sanitary ritual? **URL:** \ **Category:** Theology\ **Created:** [October 9, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045 "2024-10-09T23:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Historyprof](https://forums.crosswalk.com/user_avatar/forums.crosswalk.com/historyprof/32/285_2.png) [@Historyprof](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Historyprof)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/1 "2024-10-09T23:30:59Z")
> **Circumcision is stiil practiced in America , but not in the numbers it was a generation ago.** > > ![IMG_0056](https://forums.crosswalk.com/uploads/default/original/1X/8e72b6cb001a3c69c7b778aba4f8fd2f98b7d729.webp) Is this a necessary rite for Christian men? What was the original intent in the ancient world? ---
**Author:** ![Fritzpw\_Admin](https://forums.crosswalk.com/user_avatar/forums.crosswalk.com/fritzpw_admin/32/250_2.png) [@Fritzpw\_Admin](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Fritzpw_Admin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/2 "2024-10-10T00:50:29Z")
I don’t think it is a requirement for faith… Paul made that clear and the Council in Jerusalem agreed. I suppose there may be some health benefits from still doing it. For anyone interested, I found this article on Crosswalk: > **[7 Important Things to Know about Circumcision in the Bible](https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/important-things-to-know-about-circumcision-in-the-bible.html)** > > The state of our hearts before the Lord is vital to our relationship with him, which is why we must cut away anything that hinders us from loving him with our whole heart. ---
**Author:** ![Rxlx](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@Rxlx](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Rxlx)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/3 "2024-10-25T21:10:45Z")
It was an act of obedience. ---
**Author:** ![Melinda](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Melinda](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Melinda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/4 "2024-12-15T06:42:33Z")
Isn’t circumcision a practice that reflects the grafting into the Olive tree? ---
**Author:** ![Xian2Jew](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xian2Jew](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Xian2Jew)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/5 "2024-12-15T08:18:56Z")
Why would grafting be a positive thing when Torah prohibits the practice along with other forms of kilayim. ---
**Author:** ![Xian2Jew](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xian2Jew](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Xian2Jew)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/6 "2024-12-15T08:27:58Z")
Hashem tells us that it is an eternal covenant between Hashem and Abraham. As we know that Hashem does NOT lie, we know that it is everlasting – it is eternal. This is why I, and other males who have traveled this journey before me, go through either a Brit Milah or Hatafat Dam B’rit before immersing in the mikvah and meeting with the Beit Din. It will seal my acceptance of that covenant. I will step into that mikvah, having followed the lies spewed from the pulpit for most of my life and will emerge a child of the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel. ---
**Author:** ![Rxlx](https://forums.crosswalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@Rxlx](https://forums.crosswalk.com/u/Rxlx)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.crosswalk.com/t/circumcision-virtue-signaling-adulthood-entry-ritual-or-sanitary-ritual/3045/7 "2025-02-26T12:59:02Z")
cutting off is not grafting?