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PS: So then you seem really sure she did it to commemorate in her own right growing up to be a woman?

Great verse. In our local church we are looking at Galatians currently.

Look at it this way: the course of human history culminates in the fact that wrath on earth is coming, but the church - not the object of God's wrath - is taken out of the world. Matthew 24 seems to speak of a unique, future event on earth.

Good for you guys down there! I have to head out soon and wrap up in something thick...

Yes, I can see what you say; in her case, for example, after having as a girl had so many decisions taken - rightly - on her behalf by her parents while in her minority, yet once in her majority the first ink experience (even if with a small design that might almost be a token one) likely meant...

I think the servant's own laziness caused him to try to refer to supposed 'hardness'; but really it's more a matter of being prepared in faith to perform one's reasonable service.

@Grams Stay warm, anyway! :)

Makes sense, anyway. Just as doing it used to be a kind of entry to manhood thing for young men - not least, going into the military - for a long while now it's become what many girls do because they have become women. I'm sure for them when the time comes to do it, it compellingly makes sense...

So do you really think that in her case doing it was an addiction? because if she hasn't done it now for 13 years it seems that she's not continually being driven to it; more likely that she did it after she became an adult because it's what women with a sense of emerging adulthood do, but not...

I agree that the term 'born again' really applies after Pentecost, when the Spirit came to indwell.

Thanks for your comment, @Lady Crosstalk . I think there may be a reasonable dispensational point to be made if one reckons that now in this Gospel Age the rule of the believer's life is the Gospel rather than Old Testament law-keeping; and for example Paul circumcised Timothy so that he could...

It shows the great importance of humbling ourselves before the grace of God.

I think the dispensational distinctives are helpful and relevant, when it comes to future events and the different groups of people involved.

It's good to get back to the simplicity of activities spoken of in Acts 2.42, when it comes to the practice of fellowship. "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."

@justbyfaith So are you still keeping the bondservant-style ear piercing as an option one day?

Well, it's still cold at night here; and the aspiration for time in Florida understandably remains strong...

There was a little commentary at the end of Doug's OP post, although I still could not quite grasp the commentary's overall significance.

But anyway I expect you are accustomed to them by now, right? So often, it's what young women of her generation do.

I don't see that the Tecarta commentary is particularly accurate, unless it was just designed as a point for discussion.

The English weather - like the human heart theologically - remains changeable...