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spdrgrl.603 -> RE: Tatoos and piercings (6/17/2008 11:53:21 PM)
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kind of anwered this in another question about tattooes and christians. i pasted it below. i'm responding cuz as people we are too judgemental of those who are different. even christians are eager to finger point. it depends on the tattooes (picture wise). god still uses christians who are pierced and tattooed. to me, i appreicated it as a form of art. i have three tattooes, an angel on my back, jesus with a psalm on my arm, and a half sleeve of jesus pulling peter out of the water with god descending on himas a dove (see in the bible jesus' baptism).
this is a hefty subject. this and abortion. i have three tattoos. an angle on my lower back, jesus with a psalm on my left arm, and a half sleeve of jesus pulling perter from the water with god descending on jesus as a dove (see in the bible when jesus was baptized). i believe that as long as the tattoos have no heathen gods (like egyptian), anything evil (like satan or demons. this would damage our spirit), or tattoos of departed loved ones (morning for the dead) it is okay. my tattoos are inspirational psalms and scenes from the bible.
now onto the most used verses.... lets skip leviticus. i want to go to the other most used verse of corinthians. verse from -1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” Non- tattooed Christians don’t hesitate to make the connection to tattoos and avoid seeing it in its full context. There was a new community of Christians developing in Corinth and the new Christians were of pagan origin. St. Paul was warning them of the dangerous practices of their pagan neighbors who used ritual prostitutes to celebrate the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite. During St. Paul’s time, ritual prostitutes were a common practice that had to be abolished. St. Paul wrote to Corinthians stating that we belong to God, brought about through His son Jesus Christ’s sacrifice, and the deadly sin of subjecting to false Gods through ritual prostitutes. Sexual immorality is a sin against the body which houses the Holy Spirit and is a direct sin against God.
christians back then also tattooed small crosses on their wrists so no one when they died could deny them a christian burial. we could go on but the subject of tattooes in biblical history goes waaaayyy back. i have to look it up sometime but i remember reading that one of the saints had a christian tattoo on his upper thigh.
in his name, Amen.
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