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Is Being Against Tatoos the Law?

Should Christians Have Tatoos?

  • Yes

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • No

    Votes: 16 57.1%
  • Pontius Pilate (I wash my hands)

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Don't be silly!

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • It's not the Baptist thing to do!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Church of the Enlightened Path does it!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    28

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I think that many of the things in the OT are hard to put together. I was reading a discussion questioning whether Moses wife Zipporah was the same women called the Ethiopian. The history is spread out through several books. There are even places where certain laws were different later on.
We all just have to try to be as honest in our interpretations as we can be.

Deborah13: Yes, indeed, honesty is good and important. And with a subject such as this, consigning people to aggressive rhetoric simply because they don't happen to look at it in the same way, having considered the Scritpures for themselves, doesn't achieve much, either.
You Isaiah quote earlier was interesting, wasn't it?
Blessings.
 
PS: Anyway I realize also that she might not have given you her reasons for her tattoo interest; so maybe it's even a bit unfair of me to ask you, in any case. Blessings.

No, it's OK to ask and she knows you asked. She says she just never thought about them being sinful. The younger generation has grown up with average people getting tats. They don't think of them as being necessarily symbolic of something other than what they appear to be. One of her friends, she's like another daughter to me actually, has a pretty little rose on her back shoulder area.
They think of them more as one might think of a necklace or some other adornment with a rose on it. A rose is a rose, not a symbol for something else.
 
Deborah13: Yes, indeed, honesty is good and important. And with a subject such as this, consigning people to aggressive rhetoric simply because they don't happen to look at it in the same way, having considered the Scritpures for themselves, doesn't achieve much, either.
You Isaiah quote earlier was interesting, wasn't it?
Blessings.

Yes, I never would have seen that I'm sure or understood it. Did you read the article I linked to. I thought they did a good job with the whole scripture and the Isaiah scripture just may be exactly as they say.
 
No, it's OK to ask and she knows you asked. She says she just never thought about them being sinful. The younger generation has grown up with average people getting tats. They don't think of them as being necessarily symbolic of something other than what they appear to be. One of her friends, she's like another daughter to me actually, has a pretty little rose on her back shoulder area.
They think of them more as one might think of a necklace or some other adornment with a rose on it. A rose is a rose, not a symbol for something else.

You're right about it being so widespread.

The rose on the young lady that is like another daughter to you: she must really have liked the design to have gone under the needle for it, anyway. (Do you happen to like it, too?)

Blessings.
 
You're right about it being so widespread.

The rose on the young lady that is like another daughter to you: she must really have liked the design to have gone under the needle for it, anyway. (Do you happen to like it, too?)

Blessings.

It's pretty and was well done and the color is good.
 
... One of her friends, she's like another daughter to me actually, has a pretty little rose on her back shoulder area.
They think of them more as one might think of a necklace or some other adornment with a rose on it. A rose is a rose, not a symbol for something else.

PS: Yes, I realize that often symbolism isn't in question.

I guess for a believing woman, the rose design you mention could, with the addition of a Scripture reference, be turned into a witness aid that alludes to the Rose of Sharon, and be a useful talking point for the person thus motivated. (I'm not saying that this should be done; simply that it could be.)

Blessings.
 
PS: Yes, I realize that often symbolism isn't in question.

I guess for a believing woman, the rose design you mention could, with the addition of a Scripture reference, be turned into a witness aid that alludes to the Rose of Sharon, and be a useful talking point for the person thus motivated. (I'm not saying that this should be done; simply that it could be.)

Blessings.

While traveling I have prayed for people with Christian bumper stickers that they have a safe holiday journey. That bumper sticker said to me Christian.

Blessings farouk, I'm off here for tonight...
 
When we consider a migration especially when it involves a religion, let's say from Sweden to the Americas... The first generation, the 'old timers', tend to stick to the 'old ways'. They make the least effort to learn a new language and generally group together. The culture they bring with them is to be preserved.

Then comes the next generation and the next. The first generation born in the new country will have, just by living here, broken down one of the barriers: language. The Culture adapts.

Now enter the Word of God. And now also enters a greater. Now the greater includes traditions. My generation? Bikers, Convicts and Motorcycle Gangs (I almost called them "... and Hell's Angels," but some might not understand) --these are the associations that I have with tattoos. Oh, and drunken sailors get them while in Port when they are what? When they are drunk. The association(s) that 'my generation' has isn't pristine (by a long shot). But is the Scripture clear? I mean, the one that says, "Avoid even the appearance of evil."

It's clear enough to me.

Then we see what Deborah13 is talking about, "They [the younger generation] don't think of them [tattoos] as being necessarily symbolic of something other than what they appear to be."

From the understanding that culture and tradition and beliefs MUST be preserved at all costs to a wider view stemming from the nature of a mixed culture may emerge: UNDERSTANDING.

And what exactly is 'understanding'?? Understanding is to depart from evil (Job 28:28). To this some may ask, "What? What does this mean to you? Are you saying that we are to depart from evil tattoos?

To which I reply, "No."

Then, upon inquiry, I might continue, "No, the 'evil' that I'm taking about is misrepresenting the Grace of God. There are two major traps, one on the left side and one of the right. Misrepresenting God's goodness includes the implication that He does not love YOU. He does. You belong to Him. He bought you. God loves you more than I can even imagine a way to tell you about. He is not thinking about your sin, that has been taken from you, exchanged. When you traded your shame with Jesus, he made a deal that is so remarkable that only God could conceive of it. He gave you His righteousness. He is faithful to cleanse and purge (get rid of) and ...

Wait. Ephesians chapter 2. That is from the Holy Spirit. No man can do better. Here's the link: 2nd Chapter of Ephesians.

So if this is understanding? Where does the depart from evil come in?

ANSWER: When we judge our brother. When we put stumbling stones in front of our brother, whom God loves. That's the left and the right of it. Regarding judgment? Know ye not that ye shall judge angels? It won't happen without practice. No skill sharpens from lack of use. Regarding stones? You shall be given a white stone and with this stone given to you (and you alone, Overcomer) will Jesus also give you your new name. There are better stones to consider than stones of stumbling. Okay? So just don't do it. Don't do anything that even remotely suggests an unholy flavor to your witness. That's all there is to it.

To wrap up, we may fall to the right of understanding and not include the 2nd Greatest commandment, or we may fall to the left of understanding and not include the 1st.

James 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 
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She had it done when she was at college in another state.

Ah, okay. Yes, the student years are so often a time for bodmod. Anyway, you guys are up a mountain, aren't you? so I guess you wouldn't have a parlor exactly next-door.

Blessings.
 
No parlors for 130 miles.

Wow, must be almost a record for North America (with the possible exception of parts of Alaska, anyway). If Lexy eventually decides to do it, she would almost end up paying more for gas than for the tattoo - especially for a smaller first timer's tattoo, if it involved a 260 mile round trip. (Sometimes best to combine doing it with a trip for other purposes also.)

Blessings.
 
hard rock? as in ccm or like stryper? can you explain that more. I don't mind the music of that style if its lyrics are ok but I can see where the church would go south with that. ie a show with mosh pits etc.

jasoncran:

As questdriven pointed out a while back, a lot of contemporary Christian musicians do happen to have tattoos, at any rate.

Blessings.
 
.@ohfarouk. I have been around the block a few times. I know they do have them. if was charged with the mcm code for what I did I would have done time at leavonworth and or any male regional confinement facility.
 
.@ohfarouk. I have been around the block a few times. I know they do have them. if was charged with the mcm code for what I did I would have done time at leavonworth and or any male regional confinement facility.

How do you mean mcm code, in this context?

(Sorry, I may be half asleep...)

Blessings.
 
ok it the military law code that defines what is a crime and what punishment is to be mete. max and minumim time. it also has treatment of epw's regs in it.aka uniformed code of military justice.
 
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