Helen, the following is missing from
@farouk's threads on Tattooing, which is found in Lev 19
26 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.
29 'Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 'You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.
God clearly states that we are not to disfigure his Sanctuary by tattooing ourselves as it is not reverencing His Sanctuary. Are we not, as a Christian Body, God's Sanctuary?
Perhaps to suggest that we should encourage other "Christians" is not honouring to God even if we can justify having tattoos as a means/tool to evangelise with, since God forbids us to have a tattoo.
How has
@farouk explained away this passage? Particularly since Jesus did not come to change any part of God's Statutes.
Shalom