Poll: Best age for first tattoo?

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now!

 

[farouk]

I agree.

PS: And since it's what so very widely they do now, as the OP quote attests, I can also understand Christian young men and women wishing that more Christians would be willing to work as tattoo artists.

(Not merely so that young Christian men and women can feel good with coming of age inking experiences, but really to enhance the many possibilities of faith based designs effective in conversation-starting witness.)

 

[bbyrd009]

LOOK AT ME!

 

[bbyrd009]

Leviticus 19:28 Lexicon: 'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.

 

[farouk]

Perhaps so.

It's what they do now. (Ref. OP quote.)

 

[farouk]

it was an inward transition , and reaction, to them getting older and becoming independent. I didn't have really strong views about tattoos - I still don't.

Clearly (ref. OP quote) it's now what is done. How can anyone now still try to deny it?

 

[farouk]

I think the reason for having a tattoo might have more to do with it than age. But I'm still thinking about it.

I'm sure this is true; though I guess age is the focus of this poll...

Undeniable among young Christian men and women that it's what is done now, (ref. OP quote).

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him Put simply, it's what they do now (ref. OP quote).

 

[Waiting on him]

@Waiting on him Put simply, it's what they do now (ref. OP quote).

Under mosaic law we’d have to stone them to death for tattooing

 

[Waiting on him]

With no pity.

 

[farouk]

Under mosaic law we’d have to stone them to death for tattooing

The Leviticus passage also seems to say about not trimming the corners of one's beard. Do preachers shave? if they do, they are maybe at least backhandedly admitting that they are New Testament believers under grace, for whom the Gospel rather than the law is the rule of life, rather than Old Testament Jews in the land under the law (if this makes sense?)

The many young Christians in North America who receive faith based tattoos with a view to using them as conversation-starting witness tools would in all probability cite a New Testament Gospel testimony perspective on their parlor trips; i.e., the Gospel being the rule of the believer's life rather than the law.

 

[Waiting on him]

The Leviticus passage also seems to say about not trimming the corners of one's beard. Do preachers shave? if they do, they are maybe at least backhandedly admitting that they are New Testament believers under grace, for whom the Gospel rather than the law is the rule of life, rather than Old Testament Jews in the land under the law (if this makes sense?)

The many young Christians in North America who receive faith based tattoos with a view to using them as conversation-starting witness tools would in all probability cite a New Testament Gospel testimony perspective on their parlor trips; i.e., the Gospel being the rule of the believer's life rather than the law.

This is true

 

[farouk]

This is true

Maybe parents of Christian young men and women coming of age, who seem committed to getting faith design inking, instead of fighting against the medium, would be wiser to see them embrace it confidently and give suitable, moderating advice about planning and preparation for the first parlor visit that may lead to many witness conversations?

The OP quote shows just how very widely it's done in areas like the Bible Belt.

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him
https://tomvanderwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/psalm-tats-lr.jpg

 

[Waiting on him]

@Waiting on him
https://tomvanderwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/psalm-tats-lr.jpg

That’s pretty cool

 

[farouk]

That’s pretty cool

I guess this kind of faith / Scripture tattoo is really a bit like the idea of Joshua 4.6:

"That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?"

i.e., intended as a conversation-starter in witness.

(If the analogy makes sense?)

 

[Waiting on him]

I guess this kind of faith / Scripture tattoo is really a bit like the idea of Joshua 4.6:

"That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?"

i.e., intended as a conversation-starter in witness.

(If the analogy makes sense?)

I’ll have to study on this a bit but I know there’s something special there

 

[farouk]

I’ll have to study on this a bit but I know there’s something special there

I guess, at least an indirect parallel, which young Christian men and women who get faith based inkings might appreciate, right?

 

[farouk]

For my sons it was more ' yes, I am 18, I can make my own decisions - so let's get a tattoo ' . It's part of our culture

I guess your sons and their peers were really saying, by getting inked then, 'It's good to be man' (and similarly for women, coming of age), right?

Like you say, part of our culture now.

 

[farouk]

Hello @farouk,

My one daughter had a tattoo upon her back, and sought desperately later to have it removed, but without success. Choices made when young, don't look so good when you are older and wiser, when the skin looses it's elasticity, becoming thin and wrinkled.

Was it merely a phase that she went through, then, maybe?

People do need to think carefully about ink before getting any, of course.