exactly. Your question is mute some believe tatooing or changing you body from the way God created it is a sin. with that being said... your still going to heaven if you believe Jesus is your personal lord and savior. So if you do.. i wouldn't worry about it worry about sin's that impact the people around you in a deeper way than they may not like long earlobes.

Thats exactly what.. the only reason why people do it other than religiously or their own culture thing is VANITY and its totally a physical body thing (like I wanna look cool or something).

It IS a sin... whoever says otherwise is not a christian and he brings up all the excuses to make it not look a sin..




Very well said, thank you so much.

That is pretty vague... Brushing/cutting your hair is vanity. Trimming your nails is vanity. Wearing color contacts is vanity. Are all these sin as well? If not, where is the line drawn?

This post was edited by Dune1 on Sep 12 2012 11:34am

I never said it was.
It's just my personal beliefs

Question:

Why does it matter if it's a sin or not? If discussing whether it is or not takes away from time we could spend loving Jesus, sounds like we could be doing much better things eh?
God forgives us if we sin, and petty possible sins like the above are not the ones we should be worried about. Selfishness, hate, and pride are much more detrimental to people in one's surroundings and ourselves than simply stretching one's earlobes.

That being said, I say go crazy and stretch your earlobes, so long as you keep on lovin' Jesus.

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no, its not a sin.
Of course God ask us to respect our body as the temple of God but a stretched ear wont offend him I am sure

Well, in my personal opinion, if all body modifications was a sin, we're all living in it (overweight, underweight, healthy vs not healthy, etc) - it's too technical and picky. We're focusing too much on the externals of a person, not the internals where it ultimately matters. A guy with full sleeve tattoos is seen as living in sin by a lot of individuals, but I like to reference the "remove plank from your own eye before attempting to remove it from others" - so, let's focus on internals, not externals.

This post was edited by ius on Sep 14 2012 05:15pm

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no its not a sin to stretch his ears or to mod your bod ,(remember the hebrews circumcised- bod mod) and the corinth 6; 15-19 hes talking to the church about the members who were sleeping with prostitutes and thinking it was ok he was saying that u become 1flesh when u have sex with a prositute u then have takin christ with u in the harlot...but he also talks about a good isue that u are the living temple of god and you are not your own, if he is a christian this ear stretch might be a good way to be a witness of christ and give his testimony, remember in the book of acts16:3 paul took timothy and circumcised him after the fact he was telling the jews that the true circumcis was of the hart ,y did he do this then? so the jews would listen to timothy and his testimony u see sometimes we can do some stuff that helps in ways we can reach out to others that whould not havegiven the time or day

If you go by the text of the bible it's a sin, but lots of silly things are sins according to the bible.