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@michaelvpardo Seems that the contexts of tongues was in the Apostolic period before the Scriptures were complete. Apt comparison - in reverse - with the Tower of Babel. Interestingly the French philosopher Jacques Derrida said that the Tower of Babel was a crucial event which made translation...

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@VictoryinJesus Hoping you are feeling okay now...

@VictoryinJesus I think this thread has mileage still; it's a big subject.

@VictoryinJesus Your comment from back a bit @VictoryinJesus Your analytical comment is clearly the result of much reflection - neither encouraging or overreacting, is a measured way of putting it, I'm sure. It is a fact that whereas years ago women who got tattooed at all might typically get...

@VictoryinJesus Thoughtfully quoted verses there; Revelation 21 is also relevant.

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@Ron Coates So do you know him personally from your church connections, maybe?

You mean his mother, or his stepmother, Pharaoh's daughter?

While the photo in your avatar is intriguing, and you say of course that it's from the unusual circumstances of the bush fires last year, yet I do think that photos of Australia reveal it in some ways to be a truly unique land that in various respects is really unlike anywhere else in the world...

@Naomi25 I hadn't thought about it quite like that before, thank-you. A searching comment. You do seem to have given it a lot of reflection from an angle which I had not really considered. Yes, you do seem to empathize with how she as a tattooed woman might well deeply feel about the ink that...

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So it's quite a while ago you wrote that, @Ron Coates :)

@Debp Good topic. Philippians 4.8 is another verse around which it's wholesome to frame our words.

@kcnalp Great, Christ-exalting verses there.

@Ron Coates This is the quote I referred to (and I guess also the point is that they can be effective conversation-starters): source: allnurses dot com

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@soul man Well, to those who are just getting into being tattooed I don't think it will likely cease to engage people to have it done for the first time, anyway. But you're right that it seems everyone is doing it; it's what is done now and quite a lot is faith based. Like your wife's nurse...

@Pearl A great passage from Galatians, there.