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The Scriptures are indeed now complete. When Paul was still writing the Epistles they were not yet so.

I hope you can find a replacement to the one which was lost. Clearly from what you say you don't want to become a tattooed woman but also it's probably true to say that you now understand a lot more why your son has wanted to do it, compared with the way you thought before, right?

This is why the work of the Holy Spirit is so necessary in rightly dividing the word of truth.

It's a very topical subject, isn't it? With the prevalence of tattooing, the opportunities for faith based designs have risen enormously, even as in various ways society in the West is more secularized. So in a sense it's an off-spin that provides lots of opportunities that weren't there...

Thanks for your comments. I guess what we are talking about is weighing the strength of competing arguments, especially among the Christian adult who wish to do it, whether to exercise caution and wait for several years before one is really sure about a particular design, or else being strongly...

We are going through Galatians at our church at the moment. Very important point to separate law-keeping from saving faith by grace.

The context of the sign gifts seems to have been the Apostolic period when the Scriptures were not yet complete.

The New Testament is full of Father, Son and Holy Spirit; see especially John's Gospel, chapters 13 thru 17; John's First Epistle, Romans 8, etc.

Thanks for your comment.

So often, the Scriptures are self-evident.

Thanks to all who voted in the poll so far! If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)

"Even so: Come, Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22).

30C...of course, you guys are Down Under...:)

It's like a yo-yo: spring and winter weather at the moment...

Warmer and dry today....see how long it lasts...

Well, it's something that is done often as a rite of passage at around 18; and it's something you yourself weighed doing and did it deliberately and your sons did it deliberately also, and from your different perspectives you all managed to relish doing it, didn't you? For them as young men...

I do congratulate you on your stamina for such long shifts of work...:)

@Mayflower FYI...new poll, focusing particularly on the age of the recipient...(I was informed an older one had expired). Any further wisdom?

I remember Jim Reeves singing a hymn to those words... :)

I used to do a lot of proof-reading, but I would be a rich man if I were paid money for all the errors that I see going into print! :)