Number 4 of 17 in the *Twilight Zone* series:
by Farrell Till
"And it came to pass that Abraham said to God, `You want us to cut off our what!'" (1 Babinski 13:7).
Of all the strange ideas that found acceptance in the Twilight Zone of biblical times, perhaps none was any stranger than the notion that males had to have their foreskins cut off in order to please the petulant Yahweh. Actually, the rite of circumcision wasn't just a matter of pleasing Yahweh; it was either done or his wrath was incurred. When Yahweh gave the commandment that all eight-day-old males were to be circumcised, he made it clear that he meant business: "And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant" (Gen. 17:14). What a clever way to put it! The uncircumcised person "shall be cut off from his people." Who says that Yahweh didn't have a sense of humor?
