Questions and Answers

Are tattoos a matter of right and wrong?

In the time that Leviticus was written, Canaanites and other people associated tatoos with idolatry. For that reason, Jews were forbidden to mark up their bodies.

Today, tatoos do not relate to idolatry as they did during that time. The New Testament does not speak of tattoos and we should consider it a freedom to do so, although we should consider others around us and how they would feel.