Body Modification, tattooes, piercing, scarification etc

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Body Modification,tattooes,piercing,scarificati
on etc

• History, origins, types of, and the Biblical
  answer

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The Origins of Body Modification

• Body scarification, tatooing, etc.has a long
  history

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The Origins of Body Modification
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The Origins of Body Modification

• Body scarification, tattooing, etc, has a long
  history
• These ancient heathen practices are found in all
  nations
• a Maori tatooed man,1860

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Origins of Body Modification

• Recent renewal of facial markings
• Maori Chief

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History of Body Modification

• In the Middle-east
• from Iran 3500BC (note ear piercing)

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History of Body Modification

• from Iraq 9th century BC - King Assur with
  pierced ears

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History of Body Modification

• Chinese Buddha, 13th century

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History of Body Modification

• Polynesian chief

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History of Body Modification

• Africa scarification

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History of Body Modification

• African head-binding

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History of Body Modification

• Zulu customary scarification

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History of Body Modification

• Customary protection rites

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History of Body Modification

• Lip plate - Ethiopia

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History of Body Modification

• Alaskan man with nose ring, 19th C

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History of Body Modification

• Chinese foot-binding

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History of Body Modification

• Borneo woman with stretched ear lobes

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History of Body Modification

• British tattooed man from 400AD

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History of Body Modification

• South American

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History of Body Modification

• Eskimo

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History of Body Modification

• In Borneo tattooingis mostly associatedwith
  head-hunting

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History of Body Modification - Occultic
connections

• Primitive scarification is almost always
  connected to religious and occultic practices.
  (Middle Eastern Muslims pierce their cheeks
  in aritual)

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History of Body Modification - Occultic
connections

• It is believed here that children hold several
  spirits insidethemselves. This little girl is
  believed to hold the spirit of a weasel in her
  and this makes her extremely vulnerable for
  seduction

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History of Body Modification - Occultic
connections

• Hindus in Singapore

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History of Body Modification - Occultic
connections

• Tattooing, among pagans,is considered a powerful
  tool for at once the pigment was laid upon the
  skin, the indelible mark served as both
  protective shield and sacrifice to the
  supernatural.

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Various types of Scarification

• Tattoos
• Body piercing
• Mutilation

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Various types

• Tattoos

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Various types

• Tattoos, Hindu god

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Various types

• Tattoos

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Various types

• Tattoos, on leg

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Various types

• Tattoos, on stomach

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Various types

• Tattoo, branded by burning into skin

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Various Types

• Tribal, Oriental, Celtic

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Various types

• Branded birth chart

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Various types

• Body piercing,naval

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Various types

• Body piercing,tongue

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Various types

• Body piercing (and tattoos),tongue studs

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Various types

• Nasal bridge

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Various Types

• Labrets - tribal heritage

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Various Types

• Ear piercing

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Various types

• Mutilation, the ultimate form of body
  modificationan ear beingadjusted

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The painful process

• The process is painful

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The painful process

• The problem with nose jobs for modification
  purposes is that the pain and problems may start
  later

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Nose jobs

• Observe Michael Jacksons nose...

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The painful process

• A nose job

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Various types

• Mutilation and pleasure through pain

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Various types

• Self-flagellation

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Various types

• Self-flagellation, pain for penance

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Various types

• Some go so far as crucifixion

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Popularity of tattoos

• Even among many Christians the once-forbidden
  tattoo is welcomed with open arms (and legs, and
  necks, and backs, etc)
• Not surprising the major perpetrator of the
  Christian tattoo is the Christian rock music
  community.

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Popularity of tattoos

• And fast following their Christian rock idols,
  thousands of Christian young people are getting
  "marked for Jesus" with the tattoo.
• A Christian Tattoo Association (CTA) has been
  established

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Popularity of Tattoos

• Modern and Primitive

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Popularity of Tattoos

• Coptic Christian - Ethiopia

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Popularity of Tattoos

• The Tribe - Modern Primitivism Movement

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What does the Bible say?

• You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh
  for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you I am
  the Lord. Lev 1928
• Throughout history the tattoo bears the mark of
  paganism, demonism, Baal worship, shamanism,
  mysticism, heathenism, cannibalism etc

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What does the Bible say?

• The tattoo has NEVER been associated with Bible
  Believing Christians. And whenever and wherever,
  in history Christianity appears tattoos
  disappear. The only exception is recent,
  lukewarm, carnal, disobedient, Laodicean
  Christians.

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Christs piercing for us

• He was pierced for our iniquitiesIs 53
• No self-inflictedinjury is necessary
• He has paid theRedemption price
• Christ has inscribed,or tattooed youon His
  handsIs 4916

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Christs victory over death

• Christs death and resurrectiongives us life.
  The tattooculture is obsessedwith death.

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Christs victory over hell

• And I looked, and behold a pale horse and his
  name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed
  with him. . ."Revelation 68
• Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
  fire, prepared for the devil and his angels
  Matthew 2541

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Christs victory over hell

• Tattoos are preoccupied with death, hell and
  the flames of hell

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Christs victory over the devil

• And he laid hold on the dragon, that old
  serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and
  boundRev 222
• Neither give place to the devil. Ephesians 427

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His mark forever

• Revelation 72-3 ...till we have sealed the
  servants of our God in their foreheads.Revelatio
  n 141 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on
  the mount Sion, ..., having his Father's name
  written in their foreheads.