Can Christians get tattoos? This is going to go over well. Leviticus 19.28 says,
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you,
I am the Lord. Now surely some will hear that and say, well that's Old Testament,
we're under grace and therefore that no longer applies. But that's actually not true.
You see Jesus Christ didn't die on the cross to make it permissible for you and I to get inked
up. And in fact, there's plenty of Old Testament laws that God expects for us to observe in the
new because they weren't repealed by the death of Christ on the cross. For example, laws against
murder, rape, theft, bestiality, sodomy, and idolatry. Now the reason God commanded His people
not to get tattoos was to make a distinction between His people and the world. Now some
would say, well getting a religious tattoo will help me to stand out to the loss and thereby win
them. The problem with this is that there's no example in the New Testament of Jesus or
the disciples getting inked at position to distinguish them as Christians. On the contrary,
the only marks that the disciples got were those that came about from persecution because of the
word of God that they preached. Which is why the Apostle Paul said, I bear in my body the marks of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Full Sermon on Tattoos