[garinda]

Originally Posted by West Ender

There's a song in "Fiddler on the Roof" called Tradition. That's what it's all about. Circumcision and the dietary laws all came about for health reasons. You don't eat pork or shellfish because one day in the desert and they're not fit to eat; you have separate dishes and pans for meat and milk - makes sense when you think of bacteria; you circumcise males - hygiene. Muslim tradition follows very similar lines to Jewish and both originated in the same place.

...sorry to hark on about it but if God created man in his own image, this perfect man, at least he was before the fall from grace, why didn't he think to make Adam already circumcised?

....and were Adam and Eve created already able to speak Hebrew?