In Defense Of Tattoos, We Now Understand That The Image Of God Is A Spiritual One Conveyed As “Salt And Light.”.
But bodily decoration is just fine. But this argument also fails to understand the law and what jesus has done. Tattoos breach the skin, which means that skin infections and other complications are possible, including:
Who Shall Not Go To Heaven?
As we have seen that completely ignores the context and fails to take into account what “cutting of the body” actually means. Women can wear makeup, people can coiffe their hair a certain way, people can wear jewelry, there’s all kinds of. The bible makes no specific reference to tattoos as we understand them in modern times.
And In Terms Of Catholic Moral Theology, It Does Not Seem To Me That There Is A Basis For Saying That Tattoos Are Absolutely Prohibited.
So no, god would not forgive you for getting a religious tattoo, because he wouldn’t consider it a sin to begin with. God gave this command to the nation of israel, thus setting them apart from the neighboring peoples who marked their skin with the names or symbols of their gods. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you:
No Longer Considered Slaves, The Israelites Now Were.
Popular verses include john 3:16, philippians 4:13,. Some christians condemn all tattooing as immoral because god clearly forbids them in leviticus 19:28.