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NASB | Leviticus 19:28 'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 19:28 'You shall not make any cuts on your body [in mourning] for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the LORD. |
Subject: body piercings and why not |
Bible Note: Dear jtsimsfamily, I don't recall claiming that the passage referenced forbids anything. I was simply asking the poster to whose glory did they think body piercing was aimed, or any of the multitude of things we do, like those you mentioned in your response for that matter. It seems we all come from different walks of life. We have all done things in our lives that weren't necessarily bringing glory to God but rather ourselves, and in some cases, arguably most, we never even pondered who was being glorified by the thing we were doing. Matthew 23:25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. "The main business of a Christian lies within, to get cleansed from the filthiness of the spirit. Corrupt affections and inclinations, the secret lusts that lurk in the soul, unseen and unobserved, these must first be mortified and subdued. Those sins must be conscientiously abstained from. which the eye of God only is a witness to, who searcheth the heart." - Matthew Henry Like some you mentioned, there is nothing wrong with them attending your church. God works change internally. What we have done externally to ourselves really doesn't matter once our hearts are renewed. The only purpose they may actually serve now is to simply remind us of where we may have been and from where God may have plucked us. I shave my head. Do I do that for the glory of God? No. I do it because I like it and think the look works for me. Does that make it wrong? My point was that we should be questioning what we do and evaluate just who it glorifies, us or God. After all our chief purpose for being here is in part, to glorify God, which will happen eventually whether we cooperate or not. Romans 11:36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. And sadly my friend, many of the things I do, do not bring glory to God. Stand in His grace, WOS |