Is there anything wrong with body art and jewelry?

[always wondered]

As a Christian is there anything wrong with tattooes,piercings etc. ?
I have both and have been wanting to get more but I know it's looked down upon in the church but is there scriptural reasons why not?
Does it mean you're not really saved if you have them?

[krazeeboi]

What are your motives for wanting to have them? It doesn't mean you're not saved, but motives are very important here.

[Always wondered]

krazeeboi said:

What are your motives for wanting to have them? It doesn't mean you're not saved, but motives are very important here.

Just liking them I guess. I don't plan on getting any more piercings but there were a few tattooes I had been thinking about getting; most of them to reflect my beliefs and new life as a Christian

[Jasmine nsi]

Anybody ever seen Miami ink? Well I watched this marathon for 4 hours, and saw many reason's why people tattoo their bodies.

1. A wife divorces her husband and is granted custody of the kids. He's hurting over the decision comes into the tattoo shop wanting to get a bear and 3 cubs that symbolize him and his children.. His reason: He always wanted to feel close to his children

2. A girl still grieving over her best friends death (1yr) comes into the shop and wants a motif tattooed on her back. The motif is of a girl crying blood, but her face offers a glimmer of hope. She too wanted to feel close to her best friend, who is now dead.

3. A man who brother dies, dares himself to get a tattoo in a hurtful place so that somehow he would feel as if he was taking a risk to memoralize how his brother lived life on the edge. He then gets tatted with a skateboard with different things that his brother enjoyed tattooed around the skate board. It also included a skull and R.I.P. The tattoo artist also added special touches as the brother who passed was also his best friend.

4. A woman wants japaneese wording tattooed on her back. the word she had tattooed was peace. She felt that his would bring her to peace with her self.- She didn't know Jesus was the answer.

5. A woman who had a miscarriage comes into the shop to get a fairy holding a shamrock close to her heart. The shamrock symbolizes the baby she miscarried. She wanted to let go of the past, but yet remember that she had lost something so dear and special.

-Her tattoo was beautiful. I cried. It almost made me ressurect my feelings ofgetting a tatto with a dove flying up towards the heavens with a stem rose in its mouth my daughter's name through it.

6. A woman who is known for teasing men, decides she wants to to get a mermaid tattoo on her side. Her motive-to bring carry out the name of tease.

7. A man wants a re-touch of his tattoo. The superman emblem. His motive- He lives a double life, nerdy by day, and Transvestite by night. Getting his tattoo retouched was going to give him the courage to tell him parents that he was gay.

8. A man who was enlisted with the isreali military gets a tattoo of his unit. He wanted to remember the friends he lost in battle, move forward, but never forget the good times.

I could go on. I did watch four hours of this. I hope this helps, clearly there are motives.

[Nikkol]

Pretty interesting.... not sure if I ever saw that show before though.... <<smile>>

Jasmine said:

Anybody ever seen Miami ink? Well I watched this marathon for 4 hours, and saw many reason's why people tattoo their bodies.

1. A wife divorces her husband and is granted custody of the kids. He's hurting over the decision comes into the tattoo shop wanting to get a bear and 3 cubs that symbolize him and his children.. His reason: He always wanted to feel close to his children

2. A girl still grieving over her best friends death (1yr) comes into the shop and wants a motif tattooed on her back. The motif is of a girl crying blood, but her face offers a glimmer of hope. She too wanted to feel close to her best friend, who is now dead.

3. A man who brother dies, dares himself to get a tattoo in a hurtful place so that somehow he would feel as if he was taking a risk to memoralize how his brother lived life on the edge. He then gets tatted with a skateboard with different things that his brother enjoyed tattooed around the skate board. It also included a skull and R.I.P. The tattoo artist also added special touches as the brother who passed was also his best friend.

4. A woman wants japaneese wording tattooed on her back. the word she had tattooed was peace. She felt that his would bring her to peace with her self.- She didn't know Jesus was the answer.

5. A woman who had a miscarriage comes into the shop to get a fairy holding a shamrock close to her heart. The shamrock symbolizes the baby she miscarried. She wanted to let go of the past, but yet remember that she had lost something so dear and special.

-Her tattoo was beautiful. I cried. It almost made me ressurect my feelings ofgetting a tatto with a dove flying up towards the heavens with a stem rose in its mouth my daughter's name through it.

6. A woman who is known for teasing men, decides she wants to to get a mermaid tattoo on her side. Her motive-to bring carry out the name of tease.

7. A man wants a re-touch of his tattoo. The superman emblem. His motive- He lives a double life, nerdy by day, and Transvestite by night. Getting his tattoo retouched was going to give him the courage to tell him parents that he was gay.

8. A man who was enlisted with the isreali military gets a tattoo of his unit. He wanted to remember the friends he lost in battle, move forward, but never forget the good times.

I could go on. I did watch four hours of this. I hope this helps, clearly there are motives.

[jasmine nsi]

It comes on TLC.

"The learning channel."

[Beulah5]

I used to be a 'bohemian' to the max and used to sport tatoos and 6 piercings all over my body-i am down to 2 now lol.

There are motives behind getting a tatoo some good and some bad.

The OT did warn against marking our bodies -we are no longer under the law but it is worth taking into account why that was said.

Also anyone who goes getting a tatoo is opening the door to forming a soul-tie with the tattooist.

Just a few things to contemplate.

[always wondered]

beulah5 said:

I used to be a 'bohemian' to the max and used to sport tatoos and 6 piercings all over my body-i am down to 2 now lol.

There are motives behind getting a tatoo some good and some bad.

The OT did warn against marking our bodies -we are no longer under the law but it is worth taking into account why that was said.

Also anyone who goes getting a tatoo is opening the door to forming a soul-tie with the tattooist.

Just a few things to contemplate.

Beulah 5 ,what caused you to reduce your piercings?
I don't get the soul-tie thing .....could you or anyone tell me more about what that is and how could you possibly form one with a tattoo artist?

[auneeqsol]

Well what about men of God wearing earrings?

Now I was taught ( i came up in holiness...) that this was a sin only sissy's do that, but I look at ppl like Fred Hammond , which I love his music, and it is really inspiring to me as well, and I say well he doesnt seem like a sissy or anything,

Personally I think it's like a fad, or like a fashion statement of some sort, I used to look down on ppl like that because of what I was taught, but now as things unfold and as I grow older in life and in the Lord, and see the different views and also see how even the church and different aspects of the church has changed over the yrs....(whew! let me take a breath..LOL) I see things in a different way now, I try to keep an open mind about SOME things and why ppl do them.

I have a friend, she's a sister in Christ, we talk , laugh, worship, pray together, and God has really given her a gift to write poetry, but she has a nose ring. But as I just continue to see her, she has a beautiful spirit, and that made me just overlook that nose ring as just a fashion statement , like a pair of nice earrings or something, and I have watched her evolve over the yrs with her trials and tribulation, seeing how she has grown in the Lord and in life, she has taken on a natural personality, one of happiness and peace with God and herself...I mean it's beautiful, so what can I say??? Nothing. It isnt even an issue with me hardly, I see her beautiful spirit which speaks so much louder than her appearance....so what could one say? Could one say that a person like that doesnt wanna let go of things of the world? or that they havent matured in the things of God to a point of completely selling out? Actually we can't really say none of that, we can just continue to walk in love with one another being bros and sis in Christ.

[MsKayLander]

I just seen Fred Hammond on the Stellars and he didn't have on an earring...

[hezsweetiknow]

I've never had a problem with nose rings. I know they were worn in biblical times and are still worn by people of the region today.

Easton's Dictionary said this...
Only mentioned in Isa 3:21, although refered to in Gen 24:47, Pro 11:22, Hsa 2:13. They were among the most valued of ancient female ornaments. They "were made of ivory or metal, and occasionally jewelled. They were more than an inch in diameter, and hung upon the mouth. Eliezer gave one to Rebekah which was of gold and weighed half a shekel...At the present day the women in the country and in the desert wear these ornaments in one of the sides of the nostrils, which droop like the ears in consequence."

Now I remember when men first started wearing earrings. How it was said to be a sign of homosexuality. Now it's a fashion statement and doesn't out someone's sexuality.

I know a woman who says that wearing a ring on your thumb is also a symbol of homosexuality.

Then there was the wearing of red that symbolized a jezebel spirit. Wearning an anklet dictated you were a prostitute. And so on...

Now there may be truth in the orgin of some of these practices...but wearing these items has merged into mainstream and is widely accepted.

Now before you get on me about why should we accept it because its mainstream now...I could say the same thing about Christmas and Easter which have pagan origins but have merged into the mainstream and are now celebrated through Christiandom.

Could the sister who said you gain a soul-tie with your tattooist please elaborate. I've never heard of such.

Thanks!

[auneeqsol]

Yeah Misskay on the stellars he didnt have one on, but he has worn them in the past yr or 2 and maybe that was just a fad phase but he did wear them though, and I really enjoy his music I mean he has so much passion when he sings, and you can tell he loves the things of the Lord, but like is said , I have seen him with an earring in his ear I believe it was on the Bobby Jones Gospel Program. So is it okay or is it worldly? Does it dampen your witness? or what?

I have to admit I did want a nose ring though, I think they are cute on some ppl though really.

[Jasmine]

I have a tattoo, I was never soul-tied with the tattoist. I don't even remember his face. Just that he was mexican.

[krazeeboi]

I'm trying to figure out when it became so fashionable for male Gospel artists to wear earrings while performing. I'm only 26, but I am SO old school when it comes to that. Even if you do wear them (as I used to), don't wear them while ministering or performing.