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@McFearless Wonderfully sublime passage there........... :)

Hi @McFearless (Thanks for the 'like' on the other thread just now, BTW.........) You make an interesting point about risk and whether life can ever really be risk-free. The other day I was with a keen Christian young man with a faith based tattoo; and a while ago my wife and I talked to a...

(Replied elsewhere because we were getting off topic...)

@Taken (Replied here in order not to go off topic in a thread with a sublime subject...) Oh so - although you don't intend to get a tattoo, you mean that electronic devices are trusted by you even less than the needles in a tattoo machine would be?

@Taken Oh I see; thank-you! so as regards trust, you would tend to trust electronic devices, generally speaking, but you would not have enough trust in the needles in a tattoo machine - even if the aesthetics of the tattoo design itself were viewed as generally positive. Okay; fine; thanks for...

@Taken I smiled at the reference to tattoo needles; not quite sure I followed your train of thought........ :)

@Marvelloustime There is such a lot in the little Epistle of James...........

@Taken Thanks for the 'like', above; the fact that women - including Godly, Christian women - can and do indeed get inked up confidently cannot seriously be challenged.

@Taken Trust is a key, indeed. Proverbs 3.5.

@marks Good verses there. What is often forgotten - and as Ephesians 2 bears out - that humanity is fallen, and this includes the will ('fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind'). This requires nothing less than the intervention of Divine grace in Christ, as Ephesians so wonderfully...

Great verse there in Job, indeed...............

@Taken 1 Corinthians 15 is also a helpful, key passage about the Resurrection and the body.

@Taken Yes, indeed. Exactly so. It used to be a man thing to do - and still is. But for a long time now it has also been very much indeed a woman thing to do; in fact proportionately now possibly even more of a woman thing than a man thing. In her posting, UnrulyBeauty said: Since it's...

@Mantis Interesting; and this may be some Christians' experience, but not necessarily so. FHII indicated this: Seems like for some Christians it is something they strongly desire to have but they do it in a deliberate, measured way - perhaps as an expression of faith and witness - and...

@Mantis I am reminded of Romans 10.17: "...faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." :)

@Taken Recently I talked with a Christian young man with a faith based tattoo; a while ago my wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of the wording of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area. I can pretty accurately guess I think that in their untattooed days they would have had such a...

I take your point, @Taken . This is why I do slightly shy away from systematic theology because what matters is whether propositions are based on Scripture rather than on whether one follows on logically from another.

@devin553344 The young ppl with Bible verses tattooed with whom I have spoken and who seem to have gotten them for testimony took purposes would likely have gone to the tattoo artist appointment with confidence and joy and have not regretted getting them.

@Taken The issue may well be receptiveness to Scripture..........

@Taken I love the victory verse also in 1 Corinthians 15.57....and verse 58 about abounding steadfastly in the work of the Lord follows on logically..... :)