God created us. He also created our bodies and called them a temple (I Cor. 6:19–20). Our bodies are a gift of God. When we deliberately cause ourselves physical suffering or mutilate our bodies without a serious medical reason, we are not responding to this gift in the right way.
Our appearance is not the source of our value as human beings! That value has its source only in God, who gave us our appearance and who loves us as we are.
