Is getting plastic surgery a sin?

[El_camino]

I’m sure Yeshua would be quite happy to see people take risks in life and make every attempt to live it to its full capacity. He certainly did.

Its funny how you want to detract from the real question by giving a generalized twist to your answer.

This is a YES or NO question.

Are you telling me, then, that Christ would be happy for a woman to risk her life, put stress on her family and take drugs so that someone may stick goo in her chest so that she may have bigger breasts? huh?

If your answer is yes, I don’t think I have anything else to tell you.

Many blessings,

E.C.

 

[GreenJeans]

Its funny how you want to detract from the real question by giving a generalized twist to your answer.

This is a YES or NO question.

Are you telling me, then, that Christ would be happy for a woman to risk her life, put stress on her family and take drugs so that someone may stick goo in her chest so that she may have bigger breasts? huh?

If your answer is yes, I don’t think I have anything else to tell you.

Many blessings,

E.C.

Well, he would probably observe that she already slaps goo all over her face day after day to hide his handiwork, exercise her vanity, and deny her age, so she might as well go for it. I have no reason to think he was a scold. You can stop now. The answer is yes.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

 

[Dan_Grelinger]

I’m sure Yeshua would be quite happy to see people take risks in life and make every attempt to live it to its full capacity. He certainly did.

For those that do not understand the paradox the poster placed into his statement:

There is an inherent suggestion in this statement that

1. Taking risks
2. Living life to its full capacity.

are synonomous.

That suggestion, where it may be true in some cases, is not true in many more. It is therefore not universally true that Yeshua would be happy seeing people takes risks in life. As we can see, simple logical errors have been made.

Dan

 

[El_camino]

Well, he would probably observe that she already slaps goo all over her face day after day to hide his handiwork, exercise her vanity, and deny her age, so she might as well go for it. I have no reason to think he was a scold. You can stop now. The answer is yes.

hahahahaha

You are unbelievable!

 

[GreenJeans]

hahahahaha

You are unbelievable!

I am unbelievable. But, enlightenment is a long process. Keep believing.

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love”
Taming of the Shrew

 

[GreenJeans]

For those that do not understand the paradox the poster placed into his statement:

There is an inherent suggestion in this statement that

1. Taking risks
2. Living life to its full capacity.

are synonomous.

That suggestion, where it may be true in some cases, is not true in many more. It is therefore not universally true that Yeshua would be happy seeing people takes risks in life. As we can see, simple logical errors have been made.

Dan

Oh, come on. Logical errors with an “inherent suggestion?” At least nail down the offense before passing sentence. Inference does not equal implication.

Perhaps “possible logical errors?”

Or, “If this is the case, the poster has made a logical error?”

Or, maybe, “What a jackass!”

 

[chevalier]

I just think it’s silly.

Agreed. I don’t feel like going through the routine of in what ways it might be sinful to get breast implants because I don’t want to think what if God applied that kind of approach to my own acts and habits, but it’s just silly to spend money and possibly a lot of it on something which is not real, not healthy, not essential in any way, not going to correct self-esteem issues at the core level. And add the risks. It can blow up. It burdens the spine. Probably more. It’s silly.

 

[GreenJeans]

Agreed. I don’t feel like going through the routine of in what ways it might be sinful to get breast implants because I don’t want to think what if God applied that kind of approach to my own acts and habits, but it’s just silly to spend money and possibly a lot of it on something which is not real, not healthy, not essential in any way, not going to correct self-esteem issues at the core level. And add the risks. It can blow up. It burdens the spine. Probably more. It’s silly.

Sounds a bit like Twinkies. Not real, not healthy, not essential, not going to correct self-esteem. And that gut puts a burden on the spine. The possibilities are endless.

 

[nomolos]

Like most of the post I would agree it is a form of Vanity, unless it is for medical reasons.
Just like everything man created for the good of man kind satan himself uses it against us. Just like the internet, yes it was a easier way to communicate, but since then the porn industry was flourished also. There is good and bad to every invention. Plastic surgery was used for repairing war victims from battle scars and now it is used for self-beatification.
I believe the post started with breast implants, besides the vanity in that how about the repercussions it causes, which is the main reason if it was not used for breast cancer repair. They want to be the center of anttention. Which in most cases will be men, and if either married man or the woman is married will cause both to sin in adultery. Man for looking lustfully and a woman for being immodest.

 

[chevalier]

Sounds a bit like Twinkies. Not real, not healthy, not essential, not going to correct self-esteem. And that gut puts a burden on the spine. The possibilities are endless.

What are Twinkies? Some kind of sweets? Take a chocolate bar and compare it to eating a whole bucket of those. Then take a lipstick or some what have-you-little device or beauty routine - or better, a small correction done by a professional - and compare it with getting a whole big cosmetic surgery.

 

[Dan_Grelinger]

What are Twinkies? Some kind of sweets? Take a chocolate bar and compare it to eating a whole bucket of those. Then take a lipstick or some what have-you-little device or beauty routine - or better, a small correction done by a professional - and compare it with getting a whole big cosmetic surgery.

Have you reviewed GreenJeans prolific posts in other threads? I believe he is baiting you.

Dan

 

[GreenJeans]

What are Twinkies? Some kind of sweets? Take a chocolate bar and compare it to eating a whole bucket of those. Then take a lipstick or some what have-you-little device or beauty routine - or better, a small correction done by a professional - and compare it with getting a whole big cosmetic surgery.

Twinkies are a staple of the American diet. They are a sausage shaped light cake with a cream filling. Made by Hostess who also gave us Hostess Cupcakes and Hostess Fruit Pies.

 

[Sabda]

Twinkies are a staple of the American diet. They are a sausage shaped light cake with a cream filling. Made by Hostess who also gave us Hostess Cupcakes and Hostess Fruit Pies.

Stable of the American diet??? ROFL your funny!!! They are most certainly NOT a stable of the American diet. Personally speaking I don’t know anyone who even buys the things. I know some people do but there are not as popular as you make them out to be.

For the person who asked this is what a Twinkie looks like.

 

[Sabda]

I know a woman who had breast implants. She then went on to have children. Because of her breast implants she has never been able to breast feed her children. I think it’s sooo sad. She wants to nurse sooo badly but can’t because of a decision she made years ago.

 

[GreenJeans]

Stable of the American diet??? ROFL your funny!!! They are most certainly NOT a stable of the American diet. Personally speaking I don’t know anyone who even buys the things. I know some people do but there are not as popular as you make them out to be.

For the person who asked this is what a Twinkie looks like.

The entire state of Arkansas exists on nothing but Twinkies. They have been shown to have the highest nutritional value of any available food. A steady diet of Twinkies is regularly recommended for anyone with Attention Deficit Syndrome.

 

[Sheeniac]

I believe that the Church views actions in terms of degree. In other words, spending money and time on make-up is not a sin, but if you spend all of your time, energy and money on looking good, at the expense of other things, then it goes over into vanity.

Where the line is crossed is a matter of conscience.

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Aside to Green - ‘enlightenment’ isn’t a word commonly found in Catholic discussion, but more typically in Buddhism and other eastern religions. Since you are profile-less (so to speak), may I ask your religious/spiritual orientation?

 

[Dan_Grelinger]

I believe that the Church views actions in terms of degree. In other words, spending money and time on make-up is not a sin, but if you spend all of your time, energy and money on looking good, at the expense of other things, then it goes over into vanity.

Where the line is crossed is a matter of conscience.

Degree is not inaccurate, but balance is probably the better word. The true benefit obtained from the activity should outweigh the costs and the risks. Makeup can be had for relatively low cost, and the risks inherent to its use are miniscule;very little danger, and entirely reversible.

Plastic surgery is much higher cost, and involves much greater risks. The true benefits must be very significant to outweigh the costs and risks.

Dan

 

[Sabda]

The entire state of Arkansas exists on nothing but Twinkies. They have been shown to have the highest nutritional value of any available food. A steady diet of Twinkies is regularly recommended for anyone with Attention Deficit Syndrome.

I have several family members that live in Arkansas plus my step son was on Ritalin, because of this I have done quite a bit of research on ADHD. Please back you statement up with proof. Otherwise I will continue to believe you are just being silly.

 

[Dan_Grelinger]

I have several family members that live in Arkansas plus my step son was on Ritalin, because of this I have done quite a bit of research on ADHD. Please back you statement up with proof. Otherwise I will continue to believe you are just being silly.

GreenJeans is not being silly. The pattern includes posts that are intended to be very insulting.

Dan

 

[larry85704]

I had a wife that had a boob job while I was dating her. That made for an interesting conversation. Her boobs were fine before and after the boob job. Why she wanted it done was beyond me. She didn’t have any complications and I guess she liked the outcome. She got what she expected, no lopsided boobs or infections. So it is sinful, does it anger God because you don’t like what He gave you?

How about shaving, isn’t that telling God we don’t like what He gave us? Maybe women are looking to get back what they had before they breastfed their kids. I think we have made the decision to improve on what God gave us a long time ago and it is too late to go back. Housing is an example, look how many comforts we have now that we didn’t used to have. God didn’t give us housing at all.

The man or woman who seeks perfection in their body is no better off than the Catholic who seeks perfection in somebody else’s life. Neither is likely to find it.

Personally, I have a right arm that doesn’t work. Hasn’t worked since 1973. If there was a single good reason to chop it off it would be gone. But to me looks don’t count, because it looks pretty bad. But, if my wife wanted plastic surgery I’d get it for her. Now I don’t expect to be giving anybody plastic surgery but I do understand what it is like to have a part of you body that is pretty darn ugly.