If Paul had been born and bred in Georgia, verse 12 might read something like this: These boys who are making such a fuss about a trim job ought to go ahead and cut the whole thing off! If they think God is impressed with minor surgery, then surely, He would be overwhelmed with total emasculation. Can you believe Paul would make such a coarse suggestion? You may have yet to realize the unthinkable, eternal result of a salvation based on keeping the rules.