Poll: Tattoo art - Christian perspectives: Fight it? Ignore it? appreciate/embrace it?

[farouk]

Personally, I don't like that kind of thing (I think it defeats the purpose) because it is written in the OT that we ought not to mark our body...and in Matthew 5:17-20 I find the teaching of our Lord that not one jot or tittle shall pass away from the law until heaven and earth pass away and all is fulfilled (including heaven and earth passing away).

I do believe that believers under the New Covenant ought to have the law written on our hearts and in our minds (Hebrews 8:8-10, Hebrews 10:16, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:4, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6).

@justbyfaith Thanks a lot for the comment; feel free to vote in the poll also.

 

[farouk]

No, not really a big tattoo fan.

Thanks @April_Rose ! (and thanks for participating in the poll vote also.)

 

[farouk]

I liked the one where God makes the 2 sticks into one.

@Truman Ron Coates Sometimes the very simple designs are the most effective, aren't they?

In some ways it's all about getting the design and the placement just right.

 

[farouk]

No, not really...

@April_Rose No, doesn't feel good to everyone, you're right.

 

[April_Rose]

Thanks @April_Rose ! (and thanks for participating in the poll vote also.)

You're welcome.

 

[farouk]

tattooed...I just have eyebrows, so at least I know how it feels. I like it, not painful to me.

Yes, to some ppl it does feel good, look good.

 

[farouk]

@April_Rose

You're welcome.

Just feels good to some

 

[farouk]

PS: From back @CharismaticLady ; I now see this was your former screen name:

tattooed...I just have eyebrows, so at least I know how it feels. I like it, not painful to me.

Yes, to some ppl it does feel good, look good.

 

[farouk]

I get asked about it all the time. They think it is cool and I can explain it.

@Mayflower Yes, it really works to get inked up to express a particular joy or message, doesn't it?

 

[farouk]

Christophany said: ↑

once upon a time I was legalistic with tatoo's, piercing etc..... not anymore ... I do not condemn others who think differently since it has nothing to do with ones salvation.

@Christophany FYI: I did include your comment from back in the quotes in the OP; it wasn't in the original draft but I did add it because what it expresses is very fair.

 

[farouk]

@April_Rose You posted a really funny video on the other thread of the different ladies and the tattoo experiences!

"Kind of nervous" is an expression I heard....

(None of them was faith based, though, which I guess is the perspective of this thread.)

 

[April_Rose]

Oh yeah, here it is.

 

[farouk]

Oh yeah, here it is.

@April_Rose You can feel the nervousness radiating from the screen, right?

 

[farouk]

How much would something similar cost over there, or one like my daughter's?

@Pearl PS: Did you see the funny video, above, which @April_Rose just posted?

 

[Pearl]

@Pearl PS: Did you see the funny video, above, which @April_Rose just posted?

No as I don't tend to watch videos.

 

[farouk]

No as I don't tend to watch videos.

@Pearl Fine; your daughter might smile if she saw it.

Blessings.

 

[farouk]

@April_Rose So thanks anyway for raising smiles with that video.

 

[April_Rose]

@April_Rose So thanks anyway for raising smiles with that video.

You're welcome.

 

[farouk]

You're welcome.

@April_Rose Today, the smiles are because of all the nervousness depicted in the video; years ago they might have been also because it shows ladies being tattooed, but not any more because it's something now that ladies do so widely. (I expect you saw the really anxious expression on the face of one of the tattooees...)

 

[farouk]

@April_Rose As per my comment on the other thread which you started, I kind of hoped that this tattoo thread would serve as a refreshing alternative to politics....

(Getting inked up has really nothing to do with politics, has it? )