Wednesday, April 05, 2006

I want to take the opportunity to respond to a comment I received on my recent post on piercing your tongue. The following comment was left anonymously:

I agree with ontheedgeofmyseat what you have said does not somehow sound right. It sounds to me somewhat patronising as does so much comfortable middle class Christianity.

Jesus was not a comfortable middle class Christian, he was a man without possessions trying to show us that it is what is in the heart that counts not how we appear outwardly.

Jesus was prepared to allow a prostitute to wash his feet with her hair inspite of the ojections of the other outraged guests because he could see her action came from the heart.

Sin is a term that turns so many people from understanding the message of Jesus when he himself would have hated so many of the definitions of sin created by man to allow themselves to feel superior over other men.

None of us has a pure heart. We may try but when we examine our motives we all are bound by the need to feel superior, greed, self interest, the list is infinite.

What Jesus was asking us to do was to work on keeping our hearts pure.

Next time you want to pontificate on sin examine your own motives first.

As Jesus said, `let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

My intent was not to sound patronizing. I want to apologize for not being clear.

I do not think piercings are inherently sinful.

The purpose of my post was to speak to those who decide that piercing is sinful. I've run across many people during the course of my walk who will automatically condemn you to hell for having blue hair, piercings, mohawks, or any other physical appearance that is different from the status quo.

As ontheedgeofmyseat said, piercing can become sinful if done for the wrong reasons. The teenager who pierces her naval because she thinks it makes her sexy...that is sinful. The teenager who pierces her tongue specifically because of the sexual pleasure she can give to her boyfriend...that is sinful. But that's the motivation. It's the heart that is wrong, not the piercing.

Personally, I want to get my nosed pierced--i'm just too chicken (I'm a baby when it comes to pain). Does that mean I love God any less? Absolutely not! My post was intended to give a different perspective to Christians--that what they percieve isn't always the case.

That's why I highlighted Spencer's quote, "Jesus would offer to them friendship, acceptance and approval of God in the Gospel. He would announce that they are invited home, they are invited to the table of fellowship and they are adopted into God's family." Perhaps I should have continued with his next sentence, "The tongue piercing makes no difference at all." My intent was to point out that this is the way Christians should act because, more often than not, Christians are too exclusive and push away the foreign.

The question I ask isn't, "Is the piercing wrong" but, "Is the reason you're piercing wrong?"

Tags: Christianity, piercing

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Posted by Amanda at 4/05/2006 11:02:00 PM

3 Comments

 Annette Burkett posted at 4/07/2006 07:33:00 AM  
I can't help thinking (and laughing a little) about the verse that says if your eye causes you to sin pluck it out. So maybe someone's tongue needed to be tamed so they pierced it!

 Amanda posted at 4/07/2006 08:52:00 AM  
Great sense of humor! I love that thought. :)

 brushkina posted at 2/24/2008 07:43:00 PM  
i very love girls with gold belly rings piercing - they are so sexy :)

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