![]() “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. ![]() It’s up to you to determine the prudence and morality of getting a tattoo. The stand of most church leaders and theologians say that tattoos are a personal decision. Even the Catholic church doesn’t prohibit it. In the New Testament, there isn’t a single verse that prohibits having tattoos. The only Old Testament laws we follow are moral laws about cheating, murder, adultery – and these are repeated in the New Testament.īut now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. There are many similar ceremonial laws in the Torah, but we don’t follow them to the letter because they were only binding to the Jewish people, and not all Christians. Most Catholics don’t walk around with long beards in keeping with the old law. Leviticus 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. For instance, the preceding verse to the one on tattoos forbids certain styles of shaving. There are plenty of other laws in the Old Testament that we pretty ignore. And as with other Jewish ceremonial laws in the Old Testament, they are not binding on Christians who follow the New Covenant. That’s because it’s part of the Levitical laws handed to the Israelites. ![]() But for a majority of believers, it’s not so clear cut. Some Catholics interpret this as an explicit condemnation against tattoos. You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord. The controversy over whether it’s a sin for Christians to have tattoos mostly comes down to one verse in the Old Testament – Leviticus 19:28
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