Yes....just like push-up bras!

women using make up is like a body man spaying paint but when you wake up in the morning the car still looks the same

But seriously....THIS is the verse before the "tattoo" one (the word tattoo is not in KJV)

Lev 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

So, you clean shaven sinners....are we even???

oh my ! ... some of you may not like me after this .....
but .... i am who i am and will never denie myself or alter myself for the beleifs of others. now saying that ... ( not ment to be disrespectful) i have afew tattoos and once had my ear pierced. does this mean i am damned ! i say NO.

to forgive is devine, we are all human, not devine GODS, so as such, to ask for forgiveness is the only way to be forgiven by god ... right ? so ... what i'm getting to is ... NO MAN will judge me for my doings and actions, for no man knows if i asked for forgiveness form GOD .

i dont believe anybody is going to care if you have tatoos. we care that you have GOD in your heart . i believe this is the one thing that everybody in the club can agree on. in a nut shell i dont care if you have tatoos.

Scrolling through different translations of the Leviticus passage on tattoos, I found one rather interesting -- the Contemporary English Version:

"I forbid you to shave any part of your head or beard or to cut and tattoo yourself as a way of worshiping the dead."


The NIV version is :

"Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD."


Now, this gets interesting. The NIV reference to cutting makes clear that prohibited the cutting is for the dead, which I presume is some sort of pagan practice in the area at the time. The structure of the NIV version is somewhat vague as to whether the tatooing that is prohibited is tatooing for the dead. The Contemporary English Version seems to tie the prohibited tatooing to tatooing as a way of worshiping the dead. It is not necessarily inconsistent with the NIV version.

I wonder if tatooing to honor the dead was a pagan practice at that time in the middle east.

More food for thought:

http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/death.html

http://christianteens.about.com/od/advice/f/tattoo.htm

http://www.sacredink.net/tattoo_and_the_bible/


Personally, I think it is very much a matter of one's interpretation of the Bible.


k_enn

Nice links, Kenn......the first one was very David Koresch feeling, though, and I liked the teen one.

The last one was nice. Especially the part where they put this:

Tattoo is a significant life-choice and should be only entered into with a great deal of forethought. Some questions to ask yourself if you are young and considering a tattoo are:

Am I legally of an age to get a tattoo?
If I live with my parents, would my parents support my decision?
Would I be defying the authority God gave my parents over me at my current age?
Would I still want this particular image when I get older?
What if my future mate wouldn't like having to see this image for a lifetime?
Would this tattoo be in an area of my body that would be plainly visible? – Many people do unfairly judge people with tattoos as being “second-class.”
Would this image bring God glory?
Do I feel fully convinced that tattoos are allowable for Christians?

The last two are important.