When the resurrection of our bodies happens, will those with tattoos have tattoos in heaven?

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Le_Crouton said:
A lot of tattoo hate here on CAF
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Not really, it’s just that people who don’t see a big problem with tattoos don’t bother posting here for the 20th time that the Church does not take a position on tattoos. One gets tired of repeating oneself over and over, and it’s not like anyone else on here is owed a justification or explanation for one’s own tattoos.

Plenty of us have tattoos and have no problem with them on ourselves or on others. Now, whether God wants to put mine back on me in my glorified body, I’ll leave it up to him to decide. The first one I ever got is his name anyway.
 
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Michael_Anthony said:
they will be glorified bodies, what that means though is somewhat unclear, Fr. Mike Schmitz for example is 5’ 9" and thinks (hopes) he will be 6’2". things will change, yet remain, so who knows.
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I’m hoping it means that God will fix the dent in a certain part of my anatomy that I got falling downstairs a few years ago. But he might just say, “hey that’s your ego talking so you better keep that dent”. 🙂
 
Le_Crouton said:
Just curious if tattooed Catholics will be tattooed when reunited with their body at the end of time
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I sure hope not because I have a huge tattoo of baphomet on my right arm. I like to think the saints and angels will laugh about it with me in heaven if it’s still there.
 
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Religion aside:
  1. Tattoos are associated with risky behavior Are tattoos associated with negative health-related outcomes and risky behaviors? - PubMed A case-control study of tattoos in young suicide victims as a possible marker of risk - PubMed
  2. There are no FDA approved tattoo inks, and some pigments are carcinogenic
  3. People who get tattoos have higher rates of hep-b, hep-c, cancer, infections, disease, than people without them.
  4. Exposing yourself to infections and disease for vanity is sinful.
  5. A sizeable percentage of people with tatoos regret permanently disfiguring their flesh.
 
Everything you’ve posted is your own opinion.

The Church does not forbid tattoos, unless the subject matter is sinful.

If a person finds that a tattoo is an occasion of sin for him personally, he shouldn’t get one.

If a person doesn’t like tattoos, he’s free to choose not to get one.

But don’t go passing off your own preferences as Church teaching or my factual statements as being dangerous. You’re simply incorrect.

By the way, there are vaccinations against hepatitis and such. I’ve had them.
 
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“You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks: I am the Lord” Leviticus 19:28 DRC

Where the church falls silent, it might be prudent to lean on scripture. Also an opinion 🙂
 
The Church prefers us to rely on their interpretation of scripture. Not make up our own and tell others they’re sinning based on our own interpretation. That’s what Protestants do.
 
Le_Crouton said:
Just curious if tattooed Catholics will be tattooed when reunited with their body at the end of time
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i don’t think you can get into heaven with a tattoo, because according to the inerrant Bible, tattoos are forbidden by God:
Leviticus 19:28 “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself”
IMHO, you have to repent of your sins before entering heaven and so you can’t just go around parading your sins in heaven.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
The Church prefers us to rely on their interpretation of scripture.
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Umm, the church offers no interpretation, in this regard. That’s just the point. That’s why I suggested that one should look at scripture oneself. As for Jimmy Akin, while he may be a scholar, I don’t think that he speaks for the church. He offers opinion based on his own interpretation. One which includes the strong suggestion that one considers arguments agains it.
 
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AlNg said:
i don’t think you can get into heaven with a tattoo, because according to the inerrant Bible, tattoos are forbidden by God:
Leviticus 19:28 “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself”
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I also look at 1 Corinthians 6 [19] Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own? [20] For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. - DRC , although that one is within context of fornication.

And, Romans 12 [1] I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. [2] And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God. - DRC

Considering such passages, along with Jesus calling us to strive towards perfection, tattoos would seem to be in poor taste if nothing else. While I never got one myself, I’m pretty sure that I had defiled my body in even worse ways. Therefore I don’t present this opinion out of judgment… I just find it unlikely that God wouldn’t have a preference on the matter ***In my OPINION
 
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Leviticus 19:28
Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves.* t I am the LORD.
[19:28] Do not tattoo yourselves: see note on Gn 4:15. This prohibition probably refers only to the common ancient Near Eastern practice of branding a slave with its owner’s name as well as branding the devotees of a god with its name. (Italic & Bold is mine).

Genesis 4:15
15 Not so! the LORD said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the LORD put a mark* on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.
  • [4:15] A mark: probably a tattoo to mark Cain as protected by God. The use of tattooing for tribal marks has always been common among the Bedouin of the Near Eastern deserts.
 
He Himself said He still had flesh and bones, though!

We should be careful about our interpretation of the everlasting-life body. Remember, HE walked through a wall in that body, but also walked on water in HIS natural human body, something equally physically impossible.

ICXC NIKA
 
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Genesis 4:15
15 Not so! the LORD said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the LORD put a mark* on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight.
  • [4:15] A mark: probably a tattoo to mark Cain as protected by God. The use of tattooing for tribal marks has always been common among the Bedouin of the Near Eastern deserts.
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Hmm, that is an interesting one. Abeit marked as protected while also marked as cursed.
 
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I just remembered the “mark of the beast” verses. Is the protected Cain reference the only one associating bodily markings with somewhat positive utility? Now I’m really curious.
 
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There is Ezekiel 9:3-4.
"Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. The Lord called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his side; 4 and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.” (Italics & Bold are mine).

 
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AlNg said:
i don’t think you can get into heaven with a tattoo, because according to the inerrant Bible, tattoos are forbidden by God:
Leviticus 19:28 “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourself”
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As has been stated multiple times in the thread, that is not Catholic teaching. Catholics are not bound by the Old Testament rules of Leviticus. Leviticus also contains rules like don’t eat shellfish and don’t wear clothing with two kinds of fibers mixed together, so if we were following Leviticus, there would be many other prohibited activities beyond just tattoos.

The Catholic Answers apologist (Fradd/ Akin) reference I posted explains this, in the course of giving the Catholic teaching on tattoos, which is that the Church doesn’t prohibit them.
 
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ThomasMT said:
Considering such passages, along with Jesus calling us to strive towards perfection, tattoos would seem to be in poor taste if nothing else.
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I’m not sure why you can’t simply say that you don’t like tattoos yourself and you consider them to be ugly or in poor taste or gross, without needing to bend over backwards to try to find (nonexistent) Church teaching support for your preference.

There are plenty of things in this world that the Church doesn’t prohibit but that some or even many Catholics don’t like, or find to be in poor taste. That’s okay, people are all different and you’re entitled to that preference. Your scriptural support doesn’t hold water though, when the Church teaches something different from what you’re claiming the Scripture says. Simply put, the Catholic Church, taking all scripture and everything else into account, sees tattoos as morally neutral, unless there is some reason why the specific tattoo subject matter is immoral or the tattoo is otherwise an occasion of sin for the person (example would be someone spending hundreds of dollars on tattoos while their children go without necessities).
 
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I don’t understand the desire to mark skin with art rather than hang it on the wall or get it on a shirt. I doubt there will be tattoos, piercings, makeup, painted nails, or any kind of self-expression that involves overwriting God’s own self-expression that is our bodies. Either way, all will be perfectly happy in Heaven, so either there is some kind of perversion in the desire or disdain for tattoos that God will purify.
 
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