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What a tremendous chapter! :)

PS: @AceWestfall08 I think that this is a reason why some Christians seem to keep getting tattoos even if others have quit having it done: Amanda Wachob (not even writing in the context of Christian tattoo designs) said: “It’s amazing how my tattoos have connected people. And given people a...

Thanks @AceWestfall08 ; great Psalm there, and partly quoted in Hebrews 1.

Do you think that one day you'll decide that you've had enough of getting more tattoos altogether? Some ppl do eventually reach that point, anyway.

Hi @Ronald Nolette Yes, seems like in recent years, there have been a lot of wakes to go to........

Well, I have had going through my mind the words of Stainer's Crucifixion 'God so love the world...'

Good way of putting it. Isaiah 48.10 says: "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction".

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14.27)

@Misty Williams I think of Job who said: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him": this is true faith; and we rest in Christ's intercession for the believer on account of our Great High Priest's finished work at the Cross.

@Mink57 @Misty Williams Sometimes you heard the 'not ladylike' argument; as in, it's not ladylike to smoke. Whereas, while maybe it would be good not to smoke at all, the 'not ladylike' thing is hard to argue logically, right? Similarly with tattoos, I guess.

The need for a centralized system of control was not necessary; rather, it was the doctrine of 'the faith once delivered to the saints' (Jude) that needed to be taught.

@Misty Williams YW; in the end the challenge to keep 'looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12.2) is paramount...

@Ronald Nolette I would see the so called Council of Jerusalem in Acts as referring to something that was done at a particularly time and place in order to handle a specific matter that arose between two local churches; and not as some structure being initiated which was then to be imposed...

I don't see the church directly in the NT; so this might affect one's interpretation of Ezekiel.

@Marvelloustime My wife and I were just reading from this chapter earlier...

@Mink57 Dress customs do develop. Various young men and boys in church might be wearing earrings; even if this might not have been the custom years ago. So many Christian women happen to have tattoos - often in family & faith designs, even if this may not have been the custom so much years ago.

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