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For myself, Scripture indicates that Israel is Israel and the church is the church.

So, the Chinooks are not found as far away from the Rockies as Edmonton is, then...

The Albertan option seems sometimes to be to have all four seasons in one day...

I don't get your point; and if I did understand it I would likely not agree.

I know what you mean; there was a Bible study series once on Ephesians, Acts 20 (Paul's charge to the Ephesian elders) and the Letter to the angle of the church at Ephesus in Revelation. The Epistles complement each other; and each has its uniqueness also; and certainly Philippians has its...

For me, bottom line, 1 Corinthians 10.32 makes me a dispensationalist: plus a lot of other factors do, also.

Yes; and clearly for obvious reasons a faith based chest tattoo lends itself more to male Christians than to females. That's not to say that female Christians don't have plenty of potential to use faith based tattoos in other placements.

PS: Possibly it was your daughters doing it repeatedly that made you a bit more curious about at least the potentials of faith based tattoos?

Yes, but I struggle really with the idea of what is revealed in the New Testament as being directly there already in the Old Testament when the necessary conditions did not apply yet. Types are not anti-types; shadows are not glorious fulfilment. In fact I would say that there are maybe...

Good question: placement has a lot to do with it, of course. John 3.16 is certainly a favorite. The young lady that my wife and I talked to had her wrist area tattooed with John 3.16's entire wording; the script was ornate, but legible. Placement would be a big part of it, of course, right?

...but it's not the case of reading New Testament concepts into the Old Testament. I really don't see the church in the OT at all. The Ephesian mystery was revealed in the New Testament and came into being at Pentecost. The Spirit never indwelt Old Testament believers in the way He does in New...

@OzSpen I think for the Fijian man with the big faith tattoo it must have been quite an expensive undertaking, right? (FYI, poll also...)

I see some of what you mean, but I wouldn't even use the word church for anything in the Old Testament. We probably don't see things similarly.

I don't think we can retrospectively read New Testament concepts from after the Cross, Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost, into word usage in the Old Testament.

...but I don't see the church as an extension of the body politic - so to speak - of Judaism. The veil of the temple was rent in twain; it was not the case that Christians from a Gentile background were simply added to a Jewish body politic, or that people in Christ from a Jewish background are...

PS: @Dave L In Acts, the word 'assembly' can even refer to an unruly crowd. It's not necessary that such a word wherever it occurs should always and only refer to the church.

I would, however, see Pentecost (Acts 2) as when the church started, when the Spirit came to indwell His people in Christ taken out of both Judaism and Gentiles.

PS: I talked to more than one young person with the entire wording of John 3.16 tattooed onto them. That's quite a lot of letters, quite a lot of pain, which in turn can incur quite a lot of respect, right?

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