explain to me why tattoo is bad. and why Pure Spirit is better than Mystic tattoo spirit. thanks.

[Joseph77]

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QUOTE="BlessedCreator, post: 730907, member: 8647"]God told the Israelites not to make the markings in their flesh because it would disfigure their bodies which were made in Hus own image also it was something gentiles did. God's people are to be holy and separate from the heathen world.

Both of these reasons to not get a tattoo or mark your flesh in other ways (scars/burnings etc.) are still valid today and how much more should this commandment stand being that we Christian have the Holy Ghost residing in us (if we obey God He is in us).
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Amen!

 

[michaelvpardo]

God told the Israelites not to make the markings in their flesh because it would disfigure their bodies which were made in Hus own image also it was something gentiles did. God's people are to be holy and separate from the heathen world.

Both of these reasons to not get a tattoo or mark your flesh in other ways (scars/burnings etc.) are still valid today and how much more should this commandment stand being that we Christian have the Holy Ghost residing in us (if we obey God He is in us).

Just curious, but what do you do with this verse:
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

What did Jesus mean by that? The context was in eating His flesh and drinking His blood, but what did He mean when He said "the flesh profits nothing?"

 

[Joseph77]

Because we are entrusted with our portion of "Image and likeness of God" and it is not to be defaced with some graffiti of our own making.

Amen, I agree. I also think that If it were something Jesus promoted, it would have been written in his word and it is not. Only Leviticus 19:28 gives us any clues about tattoos and even there, he is speaking to a nation he has called to himself to be set apart from the nations around them. Are Christians also set apart or are they still following the ways of the world?

Whoever loves the ways of the world, cannot be a friend of God.
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"Fifty years ago, you never heard of a divorce in the Christian church. You never (even) heard of marriage counseling in the church... We're putting up with sin in the church."
a Godly Preacher, Leonard Ravenhill, with many other Godly Ministers have noted this decline in morality,

the growing sin of selfishness, idolatry, self-promotion, self-centeredness, things of the flesh, rebellion (open not hidden) against God and His Word, lack of conscience, disobedience, (I think a longer list is in Timothy, and repeated some in Revelatoin, why people or which people that is are not found in heaven.)

 

[Joseph77]

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QUOTE="BlessedCreator, post: 730907, member: 8647"]God told the Israelites not to make the markings in their flesh because it would disfigure their bodies which were made in Hus own image also it was something gentiles did. God's people are to be holy and separate from the heathen world.

Both of these reasons to not get a tattoo or mark your flesh in other ways (scars/burnings etc.) are still valid today and how much more should this commandment stand being that we Christian have the Holy Ghost residing in us (if we obey God He is in us).
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Amen!

 

[Joseph77]

Just curious, but what do you do with this verse:
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

What did Jesus mean by that? The context was in eating His flesh and drinking His blood, but what did He mean when He said "the flesh profits nothing?"

There's nothing of the flesh that helps anyone anywhere , per se.

No politics.
No science.
No idolatry.
No adultery.
No greed.
No knowledge ("of the world") which promotes worshiping a creature instead of the Creator...
No wisdom ("of men") since it leads men to worship a creature instead of the Creator...

whatever is born of the flesh is flesh - men do not have to do anything to be flesh... they all start that way (except Jesus).... (Yochanan the immerser is perhaps interesting to look into, since he leapt in the womb when Jesus was near by, in Mary's womb)