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Should christians have cosmetic surgery?

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Such as implants, face lifts, bo tox, tummy tucks, etc....???
 
Cosmetic surgery is mainly for the benefit of vanity. I can understand surgery to correct damage done by an accident, a hair lip, or many other physical problems, but surgery just to look better is vanity and pride.
 
For birth defects, injury, or obvious defects.
Making things bigger, puffier, alteration of something just for cosmetic reasons,
I don't agree with.
A wart or growth on a nose-yes.
Bigger breasts-no.
 
Lewis W said:
I have a chemical burn, on the left side of my face, so what about that ?

depends on how bad it is and how you got, I think. But I would say yes.
 
I believe it's between the individual and God. God knows their hearts and minds, and it may be a situation where this could improve someone's self esteem to better or inspire the spiritman, where before that person may have locked themselves up in their home all their life. We are to quick to judge at times when someone gets cosmetic surgery, never knowing how that person may really feel about their self worth. I believe it may go deeper inside someone then some of us can think.

Like Lewis for example: He may be a very confident man, and an out going personality where someone may never give notice to his facial burns, and if they did, he would administer his other God given talents immediately and overrule our expectations of how someone in our eyes should look, instead of seeing the beauty of our flaws. And his spiritman may be very strong in the Lord, where he's capable of rising above the situation. But not all of us are capable of rising above such things, when it has pull them down into despair and/or depression. Some just may not be spiritually equiped as of yet.
 
Song of Solomon is in no way condoning breast implants. I think that is a real stretch to suggest that. Honestly, if my husband wanted me to have bigger breasts he should take it up with God because God made me and brought me to him. This is just my opinion though, so I will not speak for other people at all, but I see nothing in the Bible that condones getting breast implants.
 
Nick_29 said:
[quote="Lewis W":11lz5pia]I have a chemical burn, on the left side of my face, so what about that ?

depends on how bad it is and how you got, I think. But I would say yes.[/quote:11lz5pia]
I already know the answer, just wanted to see what you guy's had to say. God puts these things in the mind of man, as time goes on. man can come up with nothing that was not already in the mind of God. So man does not get to full of himself, God gives man a little bit at a time, he allowed these procedures to come into the mind of mankind to use. If a Christian wants a tummy tuck, so what, if a Christian wants a face lift, so what, that is their business, now if a Christian wants a sex change, then Houston therrrrrrer's a problem.
 
caromurp said:
Song of Solomon is in no way condoning breast implants. I think that is a real stretch to suggest that. Honestly, if my husband wanted me to have bigger breasts he should take it up with God because God made me and brought me to him. This is just my opinion though, so I will not speak for other people at all, but I see nothing in the Bible that condones getting breast implants.
I think you missed the joke, there. ;)
 
I definitely think that surgery for vanity's sake is a no-no. However, surgery to fix a problem is healthy.

Take for example, a breast reduction. I know one of my cousins has more than JJJ sized breasts, and she is bound to a wheel chair. The strain on her back is so great, and she has permanent damage to her shoulders from carrying all that weight. Should she be allowed a breast reduction? I think, yes.
 
JJJ? Whoa, that's awful. I've also known someone who needed a breast reduction, and I think that is different than getting implants. If it's for medical purposes, fine. But just to do it to look like a model, then there's a problem.
 
It is a sad thing that our society has followed Satan's ruse in making us think the outsides of our bodies are so important. That's the only part of us that's not eternal.

I would like to take a survey tho, to find out how many women who have had breast implants were sexually abused by a caregiver when they were little girls. If that's the way the man who is teaching you values, and your value, values you. Well...

I am glad that it doesn't sound like anyone here is overly critical or quick to judge. I love this place :yes
 
Ok one more time, if it ain't a sex change what's the big deal ? Who are they hurting, is there something Biblical that says they can't ? Or are we talking Christian principle ? Romans 14:14 has a very good principle.

Romans 14:14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

So if you think you shouldn't, then you shouldn't. The principle Paul is talking about can be applied to a wide range of things.
 
Well... I think there could be an argument that it's just like capping your teeth, or putting on makeup, dieing your hair... etc. But I think it's the measure they go to and the reason they feel like they have to do something so drastic.

God has been really dealing with me lately, (in fact that my Bible study this week is titled "A Healthy, Godly, Self-Image") He want's us to understand our worth. Our worth is not what we look like that's where the world puts our value.

I Peter 1:15 15 And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

If we know who we are in Jesus, we don't need to go to such painful measures to please the world. I will tell you in my younger stupider BC (Before Christ) days, I had breast implants, and they are painful! They are just too big for my body. My body wasn't designed for them.

Kelli
 
Well... I think there could be an argument that it's just like capping your teeth, or putting on makeup, dieing your hair... etc. But I think it's the measure they go to and the reason they feel like they have to do something so drastic.

Now that is true, Like the cat lady , when I first saw her on TV, I was blown away by what she did to herself, operation after operation to look like a cat. Well she achieved it.
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It's a shame really. Society has set the standard to what we are to look like and what we look like determines our value. Our success is also determined by what possessions we have. :crazy

I'm ugly and broke, no chance!!!! :biggrin
 
Hey MISTER, you are being a bully to yourself. If you don't be careful, I know a black belt who will beat you up! Oh whoops that's you, and you already do that!
 
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