I'm guessing also that where exactly each individual artist would draw the personal line - so to speak - would differ a bit.Tthe title asks of Christian artists, providing the services.
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I'm guessing also that where exactly each individual artist would draw the personal line - so to speak - would differ a bit.Tthe title asks of Christian artists, providing the services.
They would only be answerable to their own conscience, which the Holy Spirit would tweak as time goes on (if they are walking in Him), but I expect that to be convergent on Jesus, per 1 John 3:2.I'm guessing also that where exactly each individual artist would draw the personal line - so to speak - would differ a bit.
I guess Romans 14 Christian liberty would have a lot to do with it.They would only be answerable to their own conscience, which the Holy Spirit would tweak as time goes on (if they are walking in Him), but I expect that to be convergent on Jesus, per 1 John 3:2.
I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,I guess Romans 14 Christian liberty would have a lot to do with it.
I'm sure both the 1 Corinthians and Romans passages are generally relevant!I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,
"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."
I guess your main problem would be with possible implications for people working in parlors, rather than with being users of parlors, as clients?...the title asks of Christian artists, providing the services.
Yes.I guess your main problem would be with possible implications for people working in parlors, rather than with being users of parlors, as clients?
I reckon that a lot of 18 year old - or thereabouts - Christian young men and women have weighed up this kind of verse to figure the witness value of a faith based tattoo. (I guess this is getting off the main thrust of the topic of the thread, which is more working in than using parlors, though.)"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."
@Butterfly FYI, in relation to your recent post, I saw this report in Huffington Post:I know loads of people that like what they had done, many are now in their 40--60's age ranges, me included.
I intended it to be applied to the workers.I guess this is getting off the main thrust of the topic of the thread, which is more working in than using parlors, though.
I'm sure it can apply both ways, really, anyway.I intended it to be applied to the workers.
@Sabertooth Do you find it more problematic for women either to work as artists in parlors or to receive ink, than for men to do either?Yes.
I can't see why it would be (but I'm mildly autistic, so I am pretty blind to social nuances...).Do you find it more problematic for women either to work as artists in parlors or to receive ink, than for men to do either?
@Sabertooth It stated someplace that 59% - 70% or more of parlor clients in North America are female. (To think that it once used to be a man thing almost exclusively...)I can't see why it would be (but I'm mildly autistic, so I am pretty blind to social nuances...).
I guess that some Christians do find that faith based tattoo designs - Bible ref.s or texts; Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc. - do actually work effectively as conversation-starters in witness.I was thinking more along the lines of 1 Corinthians 10:23,
"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify."
I'm not really challenging that.I guess that some Christians do find that faith based tattoo designs - Bible ref.s or texts; Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc. - do actually work effectively as conversation-starters in witness.
I guess the point is really a highly pragmatic one, right? leaving aside, likes/dislikes, they really are proven to work.I'm not really challenging that.
I don't really have a spiritual problem with tattoos as an art form (or other arts, for that matter*) just the compromise that artists might have to accept in order to stay working. Benign content isn't a problem. Dark content is. (Some of my favorite CCM musicians have recorded jingles to hawk underwear, bar soap, etc.)I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to undergo the ink injectings in that design.