My question relates to Tattoos and the bible.  Does it condemn getting tattoos?
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Dont live you life according to a book, live it however you feel!
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I am a religious Christian and I have tattoos.\n\nRead the article on the link below about Christianity and tattoos.\n\nThen,open the bible, read the scripture and make your own decision. Dont listen to people who tell you its a sin, always read your bible and pray to God before you make your decisions. In some churches they beleive dancing is a sin, even if your dancing non sexuially just dancing around just for fun. ( I dont beleive dancing like that is a sin!)\n\nThe Bible says its a sin to "cut the flesh for the dead" which is to put markings on your body in honor of the dead. And  plus, that was part of the old doctrine, and Christians nolonger follow the old doctrine. ( we ear pork right?). Jesus Died for all our sins, and he will not judge you on your tattoos.\n\nWhat the bible does say is, Honor your parents, and by getting a tattoo behind your mom's back would be not really honoring her. Talk to your mom, and explain how your going to get it done at a clean health board approved place. Talk to her about how you thought about your decision and are not just getting it randomly.
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It is my belief, that the bible, clearly states, NOT to tattoo your body.
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because tattoos are a form of personal expression most of the people that get tattoos get something that means something to them. people don't put tattoos on their body for your entertainment. IF you don't like them than don't look at them tattoos aren't ugly just because you think they are. I think if they mean something positive to you than they are beautiful.
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What is wrong with wearing a symbol of your faith?  I do (I'm not a Christian).  Some Jews wear the Star of David.  Some Wiccans wear a pentacle.  Why are you singling out Christians?
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Counter-Example: \n\nSo if I'm so angry with someone that I feel hate towards them and want to kill them, should I simply go ahead and murder them -- since I've already sinned and wanted them dead in my heart? \n\nOf course not.\n\nLooking at the context of the verse (Matthew 5:28), Jesus was dealing with men (Pharisees) who commonly thought it was okay to look lustfully at a woman as long as he didn't physically touch her. They made a distinction; God doesn't. He doesn't think it's okay to "use" someone internally, while just avoiding the pretense of sin on the outside.\n\nIt's a matter of the heart. God wants a good heart -- good motivations toward other people -- not JUST good external behavior.
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I'm a Christian, and I have a cross tattoo. I say go for it. My tattoos say who I am, and what I love. I love Jesus.\nGo for it!
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I only know of OT ones:\n\nLeviticus 19:28 - Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD. \n\nDeuteronomy 14:1 - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead.
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It's up to you.  Every choice we make has future consequences.  Sometimes you can foresee those consequences, sometimes you can't.  A simple tattoo on your face does have some ramifications.  Please realize that it might hurt you in some future endeavors.  If you are willing to have those avenues closed off to you... then go for it.
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it's not that which goes into the body that defiles a man.\n\nLev 19:28  Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD. \n\nnational geographic did a study on this and believe that this was the act of people cutting themselves and rumbing dirt in it to make scares.  they were doing this for the dead.  they would also ink so that it would leave tattoo marks for the dead.  the verses before and after refer to worship of anything else other than God and so therefore i assume that is what this verse is refering to also.  just like when it says do not trim the corners of your beard.  what some of the pagans were doing is trimming their hair and beards a certain way to try to harness power from the stars (wierd i know).\n\nif i read correctly Jesus told people to follow the law in a non legalistic way.  so follow the spirit of the law which is worshiping God alone.   i don't think it's what you do but why you do it.  God will judge the heart right\n\nwe are to be good stuarts of the things we have including our health so don't eat to much candy.
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The Bible does not mention ************. ************ has been around for thousands of years - if God hated it, He would say so!\n\nThe Bible does say that God dislikes perverted thoughts about other people - so if you're fantasising about a married person whilst doing it, yes that would be wrong!!\n\nSome people are so desperate to 'prove' that the Bible disapproves of ************ that they misquote a single passage in the Old Testament where a man withdrew from his wife and 'spilled his seed on the floor' to use her and stop her having a baby that he'd promised to try for. Clearly that's condemning what he did to his wife - NOT ************.\n\nThe Christian life can be a very difficult one to live. When churches start to add 'extra' rules ("don't **********", "don't date anyone until you're 18", "no alcohol at all", etc etc) that aren't in the Bible, people always seem to break them. Then they FEEL as though they're sinning because they're disobeying the church - whn in reality, churches need to be very careful not to ask unnecessary and difficult things of their congregations.\n\n************ is not a sin BUT if it CAUSES you to sin, THEN you should stop!
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I have often wondered this, too. I found a pretty good article on the subject, if you would click on the link below. It doesn't really promote it, but it doesn't condemn it either. It, basically, lets you take a look at the reasons in your heart for doing it, and where you stand with God. \n\nThe Bible warns us against getting wrapped up in our looks, but it also says that we should try to make ourselves look good for our husbands (different words of course).\n\nIn response to Catlins Playhouse's remark, sin is sin. I say that because of her comment "do you think God is going to be mad at you when all these other people..." God will judge us based on His laws and the convictions He places in our hearts. If you go to have cosmetic surgery and you feel the Holy Spirit urging you not to, but you do it anyway, you will be judged on that. \n\nI'm not telling you not to do it. I think you should pray about it. God will let you know.
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These verses aren't saying the same things at all, and you aren't understanding them because you are looking at them out of context.  These are all from the NRS.\n\nGen 3:  14 The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."\n\n16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."\nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=Genesis+2&section=0&version=nrs&new=1&oq=&NavBook=ge&NavGo=2&NavNextChapter=%3E%3E&NavCurrentChapter=2\n\nHere in Genesis 3:16, YHVH is telling Eve that her punishment for eating of the Tree of Knowledge is to have pain during childbirth, and yet to still desire sexual relations with her husband in spite of it; that her husband will rule over her on account of her desire for sexual relations with him.\n\nGen 4: 3 In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.\n\n6 The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it." \nhttp://bible1.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?passage=ge+4&version=nrs&language=en&showtools=0\n\nHere, in Gen 4:7, YHVH is telling Cain that if he does good things he will be happy; that Cain should desire to do good things because good things desire Cain to make good things manifest.  But evil things also desire Cain to make evil things manifest, and so Cain must learn to control himself - to gain mastery over himself - in order to differentiate between good and evil, and then presumably choose good over evil because man's natural state is godlike and therefore good.
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((((   wow, cool, with this answer, i achieve level 5 status here on Answers.Yahoo.com !!!  )))\n\nThis piece of MIS-information gets repeated over and over again, and it is simply not true.\n\nYes, Gd in the Bible commands us not to get a tattoo. But Gd also commands us not to do many other things, and the idea that the cemetaries would single out this one commandment and then say that if someone violates this one, then he or she wont be buried here, is just stupidity. \n\nAnd if you dont mind my saying so, the first time i read this was in Readers Digest, when they interviewed Geraldo Rivera. He is a Jew. He told the story of how, when his gang were all getting a tattoo of a cross between the thumb and the forefinger, he got a tattoo of a Star of David, even though 'it meant i could not be buried in a Jewish cemetary.' That alone started everyone, Jew and non-Jew thinking that what he said was true.......WRONG!\n\nso, now i am at level 5, here.....that and a dollar will be buy me a candybar!
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Yes I do.   It is in the Word of God.  Also Jesus, the disciples, as well as, the other apostles did it as well.  It was done as a commissioning of service.   I Timothy 4:14 says do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic messsage when the body of olders laid their hands on you.  Over and over in the New Testaments we are given accounts of the 'laying on of hands'.  Some were healed, delivered and set free.  So if the Bible says it, that settles  it for me.    May God Bless
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i bleive that if the tattoo means alot to you, you should get it no mater what anyone thinks.. (it's your body no one else's)  ..and if it's possible do a cover up, as i have on my ankle and i cant see the other one underneeth... \n\ngood luck!
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Basically it says do not be like the heathen that engage in such things. You need to set yourself apart from the world. If you already have tats, no problem. If you are thinking about getting a tat, my question to you is, why? What is your motivation? And don't say to witness to people with tats, because it is the Holy  Spirit that witnesses, not your skin art. Use your freedom in Christ to live a holy life, not one that pushes boundaries to see how far you can be in the world and still be a Christian.