Defacing Private Property

Sometimes I am walking down the street and I see someone with all these piercings and tattoos on there body and I think to myself "I wish I could stop them from destroying their body like that,". Then I go into churches and I see the exact same behavior. It breaks my heart to see my fellow brethren falling into the same garbage as the world. So I felt like I needed to address this topic with all you guys. The word of God says in James chapter 4 verse 4: "Ye adulterers and adulteresses do ye not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God". And in 1John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him". So we can see by these verses that God wishes for us to be free of the world, not following in its footsteps. We are "a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people" and we are to follow Him and even be willing to be hated for Christ's sake. So all your friends may have a cool tattoo and a pierced belly button, Who cares? If they are against God and his laws then we should not do it. It says in Leviticus 19:28 "You shall NOT make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord". Hmmm so I wonder what "print any marks upon you" means, but any way.. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are" and 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What! Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's ". So we can see from this that our bodies are not our own, they belong to Christ and so we must honor Him with them. In these verses it also tells us that If we purposely try to change the way are hair is or punching holes through are ears it is not going to end well for us. Not to mention the fact that tattoos and holes through the ears both came from the natives and have to do with shamans magic and other pagan rituals. More info on that here: The Paganism Behind Tattoos.

Now I have heard people ("Christians") try to excuse there sin by saying "well Jesus in Revelations 19 had a tattoo so that means so can I". Whoa people hold the fort, what did you just say ? Jesus having a tattoo? Let's take a look at what they are talking about..
Revelation 19:11-16 says: 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Ok so first of all we see that he looks to have a name on his thigh so that automatically means a tattoo right? I mean they use needles full of ink too inject into peoples skin in heaven too right? No, sorry guys but this is not the case. Let's take a look... By saying Jesus had a tattoo on His thigh would mean that it was on the skin of his thigh. But a venture is a robe like garment that covers from shoulders down so either the Bible is really weird and is talking about a tattoo under his garment or the words are actually on the garment itself. So for verse 16 just to get a better idea of what I could be saying : and He had on a vesture and on his right thigh ( of the vesture) a name was written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. So we can see that this passage of scripture is most likely talking about the words being on the vesture or something that we don't know of. Also another good point to bring up is that if Jesus did have a tattoo on His thigh He would be disobeying the law and therefor not a perfect man and therefor not able to save us from Hell and eternal death.