Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone? (Poll included)

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Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone?


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farouk

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Hi Helen, give the poor guy a break. This is only his tenth thread on tattoos.
He has a great number of diverse threads on offer that are uplifting and incorporating sound counsel and wisdom. Cosmetics... Ear rings and nose rings.... Christian "Rock" music.... Fashion clothes for church...
Try the ones on Malachi...............; John 3.16..........; many on A-Z games incl. books of the Bible........; Psalms..........; Bible reading.........; Habakkuk.........; news events.........; travel (Florida........; Montana.........; Vegas....); the weather.........; hobbies & social distancing..............; ....oops, going off topic... :)
 

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Heavenhome said:
I'm a cleanskin;)..
I have noticed however that lots of young girls have them and what is really noticeable is a huge amount are women say around their sixties .
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It's plainly what is done now, and this also definitely gives a lot of scope to all the Christians who want to use the medium to project a testimony about something from Scripture, or faith, etc.


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farouk

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@Spurgeon's Girl FYI....good design?

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Helen, the following is missing from @farouk's threads on Tattooing, which is found in Lev 19

26 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.

29 'Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 'You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

God clearly states that we are not to disfigure his Sanctuary by tattooing ourselves as it is not reverencing His Sanctuary. Are we not, as a Christian Body, God's Sanctuary?

Perhaps to suggest that we should encourage other "Christians" is not honouring to God even if we can justify having tattoos as a means/tool to evangelise with, since God forbids us to have a tattoo.

How has @farouk explained away this passage? Particularly since Jesus did not come to change any part of God's Statutes.

Shalom
 
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Nancy

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Helen, the following is missing from @farouk's threads on Tattooing, which is found in Lev 19

26 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.

29 'Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 'You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

God clearly states that we are not to disfigure his Sanctuary by tattooing ourselves as it is not reverencing His Sanctuary. Are we not, as a Christian Body, God's Sanctuary?

Perhaps to suggest that we should encourage other "Christians" is not honouring to God even if we can justify having tattoos as a means/tool to evangelise with, since God forbids us to have a tattoo.

How has @farouk explained away this passage? Particularly since Jesus did not come to change any part of God's Statutes.

Shalom

Yes, agreed.
God does not change, ever. It seems to me that since all of the tattooing, piercing's in strange places, tongue splitting, inserting devils horns under the skin on either side of the forehead...ALL of this has moved us even further away from how we were created...in His image.

We do not need to "wear" scripture on our skin to witness to those around us, that's what the Holy Spirit does as He opens opportunities
to share the gospel. We need to "live" the gospel and God will do the rest. A scripture verse tattooed on skin does nothing to truly draw a person to Christ...only the Holy Spirit can and does that.
I do not personally see it as "sin", it is a personal choice that I personally choose to reject, lol. @farouk knows, or "should by now" know where I stand with all of this.

BTW-What;s wrong with a simple T-shirt??! Lol :D
 
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farouk

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Helen, the following is missing from @farouk's threads on Tattooing, which is found in Lev 19

26 'You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.

29 'Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

30 'You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.

31 'Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

God clearly states that we are not to disfigure his Sanctuary by tattooing ourselves as it is not reverencing His Sanctuary. Are we not, as a Christian Body, God's Sanctuary?

Perhaps to suggest that we should encourage other "Christians" is not honouring to God even if we can justify having tattoos as a means/tool to evangelise with, since God forbids us to have a tattoo.

How has @farouk explained away this passage? Particularly since Jesus did not come to change any part of God's Statutes.

Shalom
See post #415 above...
 

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@Naomi25 Depends on how visible the tattoo placement is, doesn't it?
I suppose it does. I think, personally, i'd either go for a single, elegant design, or all out. It bothers me when I see someone with 5 random, higgly-piggly odd-ball ones. It's like...commit, dude. Or get a design artist who figures out placement and theme, because elmo and that rose wrapped skull looks stupid!
 
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I suppose it does. I think, personally, i'd either go for a single, elegant design, or all out. It bothers me when I see someone with 5 random, higgly-piggly odd-ball ones. It's like...commit, dude. Or get a design artist who figures out placement and theme, because elmo and that rose wrapped skull looks stupid!

Elmo-rose wrapped skull lol. How about 2 dots, I have 2 dots the look like a snake bite :mad:
 

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Elmo-rose wrapped skull lol. How about 2 dots, I have 2 dots the look like a snake bite :mad:
Lol. Amazing what one can do with two dots. I inadvertantly dismounted my motor bike about 20 years or so ago and finished with two puncture wounds on my leg about an inch apart. Still got the scars. At the time I managed, with a little inventiveness and imagination, to convince my then adult children that I'd been bitten by a snake. I managed to hold this story up for about a month before it unraveled. And this was in NZ where there are no snakes. Two dots. Amazing things.
 
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Lol. Amazing what one can do with two dots. I inadvertantly dismounted my motor bike about 20 years or so ago and finished with two puncture wounds on my leg about an inch apart. Still got the scars. At the time I managed, with a little inventiveness and imagination, to convince my then adult children that I'd been bitten by a snake. I managed to hold this story up for about a month before it unraveled. And this was in NZ where there are no snakes. Two dots. Amazing things.
BTW. My kids are not unintelligent. They just love their dad and couldn't believe he'd lie to them.
 
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Lol. Amazing what one can do with two dots. I inadvertantly dismounted my motor bike about 20 years or so ago and finished with two puncture wounds on my leg about an inch apart. Still got the scars. At the time I managed, with a little inventiveness and imagination, to convince my then adult children that I'd been bitten by a snake. I managed to hold this story up for about a month before it unraveled. And this was in NZ where there are no snakes. Two dots. Amazing things.
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I suppose it does. I think, personally, i'd either go for a single, elegant design, or all out. It bothers me when I see someone with 5 random, higgly-piggly odd-ball ones. It's like...commit, dude. Or get a design artist who figures out placement and theme, because elmo and that rose wrapped skull looks stupid!
@Naomi25 Yes, I can see what you mean. Having a planned, design strategy if the person is going to have eventually a series of tattoos. I guess that your sister whom you mentioned didn't quite get as far as planning a whole series of (even small) tattoos according to a prevailing pattern or stylistic theme, but you've obviously given it some thought even though you might never, ever have it done. Yes, I can see the sense of having one design artist who takes charge of a series of designs, placed in a balanced, thematically blended way. (As long of course as it's still the customer rather than the artist who is still really in charge.) I guess this is what you meant by going 'all out'.
 
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farouk

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I never treat anyone according to my preconceptions. I always look past the tattoo(s) giving such a person the full love and attention they deserve. But I must say, to be honest, if I had a daughter I would strongly caution her against dating a man with a tat. Just sayin'
@CadyandZoe Well, okay! Just to point out of course that these days, in North America at least, it's actually daughters who are statistically even more likely to get tattooed than the husbands they may eventually marry...