SM: Not forbidden, so nothing wrong with it, right?
Wrong.
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2 “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Leviticus 19:28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2 “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
aren't you one of the multitude of prots that constantly harangues about the law being fulfilled in Jesus? Don't you constantly bring up "It is finished... What is finished?" Blah, blah, blah, blather, blather, blather....
I almost feel bad having to throw your own error back at you, almost.
Please keep talking!
Oh the many pitfalls of following some “denomination” rather than scripture.
The apostles did not go so far as to state that the old laws were dead, but they did make a point that Gentiles were not required to become Jewish before becoming Christian. So either the apostles were wrong, or much of the Old Law was no longer hard and fast.
I appreciate your argument, but if the Old Covenant is to be followed in full, I would wager you are going to have to make some serious changes in your life:
This one is a bit personal (sorry no offense intended):
“And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening.” —Leviticus 15:19, additionally, no church for 66 days after giving birth.
Did this one really come from God, or was it an interpretation of God's will by the elders to ensure a visible difference between Jews and pagans? Were linen and wool blends the only abominatable cloth? What of silk (from unclean animals) and polyester or cotton blends that didn't exist then? :
“Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee.” — Leviticus 19:19
Here is one for men and women who sin with barbers:
“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads.” — Leviticus 19:27
This is a good one to remember for all parties involved:
“When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand.” — Deuteronomy 25:11-12
In reference to many, many sins, and clearly violated by Christ:
“They shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.” — Leviticus 20:27
Reaping to the very edges of a field is wrong, but would leaving grain in the the field really help the poor today? —Leviticus (19:9)
And according to Leviticus (19:13), anything but day labor is a sin.
So, my point is, not to say the Old Testament doesn't matter at all, but to point out that there is an awful lot of very specific day to day actions put out in Leviticus and none of them appear in red letters. I tend to think the New Covenant came along when the old one had devolved into a book of wickets.