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!
Don’t you constantly bring up “It is finished... What is finished?”
If you believed in Jesus you would accept “It is Finished” and then you wouldn’t need purgatory.
I don't feel badly at all throwing your errors back at you. Do you understand that when Jesus said, "It is finished.", he was speaking of making complete propitiation for the sins of the world? It is because he kept the law perfectly that he can be the sinless sacrifice for our sins and HIS righteousness is imputed to us, rather than having to stand on our own (which would condemn us for eternity). However, just because Jesus paid our penalty, it doesn't mean we are released from the responsibility to live holy, God-honoring lives and do the works God has prepared for us to do - not to BE saved, but because we ARE saved. That is why we are to obey God in those things He forbids or commands - you know, those ten commandments, for example.
So, when God says DON'T DO something, we should listen to Him and obey Him if we want to live happily in His grace. If he says don't cut yourselves for the dead, like pagans do, or don't make graven images and bow down to them, like pagans do, then DON'T do it. It can't get any simpler than that.