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No..@APAK[/USER] : So in your globetrotting did any ink happen to be picked up on the way? (Just thought I'd ask...)
Okay! ... (there's a No option in the poll also...)No..
QueenCat said:said:
Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.
Interesting; in the army days when your dh got all his it wasn't so widespread for women to get them; although now apparently 55% - 70% or more of parlor clients in North America are actually women.I don't have any.
My husband has 6 , he got them back in the 50's while in the army.
He wasn't a Christian then, so none are faith based.
I don't mind them on men...I hate seeing them on women though
PS: You mentioned Calgary on the other thread; Kristin Fraser is a noted artist in Calgary; this from her seems like a quotation from Psalm 46.10 (with the Rockies near Calgary as a backdrop):My husband has 6...
Your own tattoo?Cool thread -
Shoulder tattoo of Benedictine cross
Is she a tattoo artist? (talent in the family...)Yeah, my neice drew the pic for me
Tattoos are for unbelievers. God forbids them on His people.So is your tattoo (if you have one) faith based in its design?
Just beforehand in the passage it also seems to say about not trimming one's beard; do preachers shave? if they do, maybe they are backhandedly admitting that Old Testament Jews in the land under the law and New Testament Christians under grace following proven effective witness means are distinct.Tattoos are for unbelievers. God forbids them on His people.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. (Lev 19:28)
JOHN GILL'S COMMENTARY
...nor print any marks upon you;
Aben Ezra observes, there are some that say this is in connection with the preceding clause, for there were who marked their bodies with a known figure, by burning, for the dead; and he adds, and there are to this day such, who are marked in their youth in their faces, that they may be known; these prints or marks were made with ink or black lead, or, however, the incisions in the flesh were filled up therewith; but this was usually done as an idolatrous practice; so says Ben Gersom, this was the custom of the Gentiles in ancient times, to imprint upon themselves the mark of an idol, to show that they were his servants...
One only has to look at most tattoos to see that they have nothing edifying about them. So this is another worldly practice to be shunned by Christians.