No Tattoos

Q.  I would swear I remember a prohibition against marking your bodies like the pagans do somewhere in the Bible but for the life of me I cant find it.  Are you familiar with it?

A.  Leviticus 19:28 says,

“Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.”

Lots of people will say, “That’s in the Old Testament.  We’re not under the Law”  It’s true, but in Ephesians 2:10 God calls us His workmanship (handiwork, work of art).  Most people wouldn’t go around defacing a human being’s art work.  Why do we think it’s OK to deface the Lord’s?