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So why does the bible oppose tattoos? Would hell be a consequence of getting a tattoo?
 
I don’t think I have ever read anywhere that the bible has opposed tattoos.

A person gets one needs to use discretion, because some of them are in bad taste. Also, it is excessive when a person gets a lot of tatoos.

They should really think twice before gettine one as to what and why they are getting the tatoo. Many people are sorry afterwards and wish they hadn’t gotten one.

If people want to tastefully adorn their bodies they can do so with cosmetics and tasteful jewelry. I wouldn’t ever want to get one, but I wouldn’t say that anyone who did was going to hell.
 
I’m sure I read somewhere near the first half of my bible that said something like “thou shall not something ones body with tattoos” ill double check and get the numbers.
 
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I’m sure I read somewhere near the first half of my bible that said something like “thou shall not something ones body with tattoos” ill double check and get the numbers.
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What kind of Bible translation are you reading???
 
Leviticus 19:28, “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.”

The prohibition against tattoos was intended to prevent people from idolatry, since (IIRC) some pagan tribes tattooed themselves in honor of their gods, to show they were “owned” by a certain god, or in the practice of magic.

If you are not getting tattooed for those reasons I dont see a problem with it, but what do I know anyway?
 
Thank you fidesSpesCarita, I knew I read that. I remember because that day I was lookn at tattoo designs and for some reason the thought came up while I was reading my bible. It was for a split second I asked myself what the church thought of tattoos and well I just happend to come across that just then.
 
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Pride and vanity
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To what are you referring? Avoid tattoos to avoid pride and vanity? That would be fair if you were prone to taking pride in a tattoo or being vain because of a tattoo. I have one that is on my left shoulder blade because I wanted to avoid both while remembering what the tattoo signifies for me without “showing off”.
 
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So why does the bible oppose tattoos? Would hell be a consequence of getting a tattoo?
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My friend, this was a regulation in the Old Mosaic Covenant, it is not a regulation under the New Covenant, and so we are not bound by it.

Tattoos in those times were made to “appease the anger of infernal dieties” as Fr. Haydock points out in his commentary on this verse. Keeping this context in regard, the people of Israel were forbidden to make such tattoos.

So now that you are not under the Old Covenant, you are free to get a tattoo. It won’t send you to hell.
 
Good to know since I just got one of the miraculous medal on my upper back.

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I think it comes under the same category as some of the other prohibitions of the Levitical law, which were specifically forbidding pagan worship practices.

unless your tattoo has pagan worship purpose–and some of those I have seen certainly do look that way–you have no worries, except that some people (like my generation) will be so turned off that it may affect your chance of getting hired, or make us leave the store or restaurant where you work, or make unfair judgements about you based on what the message pasted on your body says about you.
 
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