Is Tattooing and Body Piercing a Sin?
This is a new one, that I admit, I haven’t encountered before this year. But as tattooing and body piercing get more and more popular, and the appropriateness of it is kinda dodgie, I figure its worth addressing. First thing to point out is that both tattooing and body piercing are relative to both culture and era – there are some cultures where nose rings have been common for thousands of years, and where tattoos are everywhere. The Bible doesn’t say much about either practice – there is a verse in Leviticus that talks about it being forbidden to cut ourselves in a certain way or mark ourselves in a certain way, but this is followed by a rule about mixing fabrics which clearly doesn’t apply any more – we have to understand that the reason for this rule was so that the people of Israel would not conform themselves to the surrounding nations, but would be distinct – special, which is what “holy” means. Note here that the issue is CONFORMITY – CONFORMITY is BAD. So in this case, and in A
