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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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well that is weird....ummmmmm wow.
there is a telephone book commercial out here...maybe you have seen it where you are but there is this beautiful girl with a tattoo of "mike" on her lower back but she is marrying Tom. She is looking for a tattoo removal place...it is cute.
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I've seen that - - she should have bought a different dress to begin with!
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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well that is weird....ummmmmm wow.
there is a telephone book commercial out here...maybe you have seen it where you are but there is this beautiful girl with a tattoo of "mike" on her lower back but she is marrying Tom. She is looking for a tattoo removal place...it is cute.
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The worst part - the girlfriend was gorgeous and the wife is pretty.
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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I don't think that in anyway it is adorning so much as it is decorating it for your own pleasure. Not talking out both side of my mouth either. Think that we are too take care of our bodies no matter what. I know some that eat vegan cause they think that is the way it is to be done. I know some that don't. Not sure that God even cares about tattoos. Church people care. But for a strict adorning thing lots can be adorning. Fixing ones hair, getting a tan, losing a tan, etc. Ink or tattoos though they seem permanent they aren't so people can remove their regrets. It is like a outpatient surgical repentance. ha
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JT,
If you think injecting an image into your skin is not about personal adorning, involving a person seeking to be seen in some orchestrated light, I disagree.
People do not suffer the cost, discomfort and 'functional' permanance without some expectation that it will influence how others will preceive them outwardly. To me, that is unmistakeably a purposed, premeditated, adornment.
In the NT, grace teaches us that everything is about motive; the heart condition. IMO, if I want to alter the outward appearance of my skin with various man-made images, I have a circumstance at work in my heart that is not authored by God's Holy Spirit.
Actions are merely symptoms.
Isn't it great how we can all openly share our opinions!
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09-16-2008, 03:50 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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JT,
If you think injecting an image into your skin is not about personal adorning, involving a person seeking to seen in some orchestrated light, I disagree.
People do not suffer the cost, discomfort and 'functional' permanance without some expectation that it will influence how others will preceive them outwardly. To me, that is unmistakeably a purposed, premeditated, adornment.
In the NT, grace teaches us that everything is about motive; the heart condition. IMO, if I want to alter the outward appearance of my skin with various man-made images, I have a circumstance at work in my heart that is not authored by God's Holy Spirit.
Actions are merely symptoms.
Isn't it great how we can all openly share our opinions!
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Wow, excellent post!!!
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09-16-2008, 03:51 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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JT,
If you think injecting an image into your skin is not about personal adorning, involving a person seeking to seen in some orchestrated light, I disagree.
People do not suffer the cost, discomfort and 'functional' permanance without some expectation that it will influence how others will preceive them outwardly. To me, that is unmistakeably a purposed, premeditated, adornment.
In the NT, grace teaches us that everything is about motive; the heart condition. IMO, if I want to alter the outward appearance of my skin with various man-made images, I have a circumstance at work in my heart that is not authored by God's Holy Spirit.
Actions are merely symptoms.
Isn't it great how we can all openly share our opinions!
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I dunno. What if I want to get a tattoo that says "Jesus is God!" Is that not authored of God?
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09-16-2008, 03:53 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
Why are we interepreting OT holiness code as if it's normative today? Is tattooing mentioned in the NT?
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09-16-2008, 03:56 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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Originally Posted by tbpew
JT,
If you think injecting an image into your skin is not about personal adorning, involving a person seeking to seen in some orchestrated light, I disagree.
People do not suffer the cost, discomfort and 'functional' permanance without some expectation that it will influence how others will preceive them outwardly. To me, that is unmistakeably a purposed, premeditated, adornment.
In the NT, grace teaches us that everything is about motive; the heart condition. IMO, if I want to alter the outward appearance of my skin with various man-made images, I have a circumstance at work in my heart that is not authored by God's Holy Spirit.
Actions are merely symptoms.
Isn't it great how we can all openly share our opinions!
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I agree sharing opinions is nice to do.
I will ask you this if adorning ones body is done through many methods and tattoos are a method of such what makes it wrong? I mean really? Because most everything you do or put on is adorning one body. Suits, dresses, hair styles. Many things can fall into adorning catagories. If it is a personal issue about what standard you set for yourself I will give you that, but nothing is wrong IMO with tattoos. Now I would not get a tattoo of a naked chic or something like that. Don't want to bring my family shame or cause someone to fall for one reason or another. I guess I am not seeing where you are coming from...understand what you are trying to say, but don't agree at all. I might never get a tattoo and unless God changes my mind which is fine it won't be cause I think it is wrong.
I agree with Sherri from an old post that I have mixed feelings about them. Basically cause what I was taught growing up, but I don't feel they are wrong.
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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I dunno. What if I want to get a tattoo that says "Jesus is God!" Is that not authored of God?
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IMO, no it is not.
God is capable of causing all our freckles, moles, sun spots, and any other random visible skin markings to form words on our foreheads, but he never has (I know this because certainly it would be on Youtube and Catholics all over the world would travel to see it  )
Once agaiin,
....IMO, Skin art is an adornment for man, by man.
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09-16-2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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I agree sharing opinions is nice to do.
I will ask you this if adorning ones body is done through many methods and tattoos are a method of such what makes it wrong? I mean really? Because most everything you do or put on is adorning one body. Suits, dresses, hair styles. Many things can fall into adorning catagories. If it is a personal issue about what standard you set for yourself I will give you that, but nothing is wrong IMO with tattoos. Now I would not get a tattoo of a naked chic or something like that. Don't want to bring my family shame or cause someone to fall for one reason or another. I guess I am not seeing where you are coming from...understand what you are trying to say, but don't agree at all. I might never get a tattoo and unless God changes my mind which is fine it won't be cause I think it is wrong.
I agree with Sherri from an old post that I have mixed feelings about them. Basically cause what I was taught growing up, but I don't feel they are wrong.
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Please let us know if and when you get yours, and what image you selected to permanently (unless money is no object) display as a decoration on skin.
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09-16-2008, 04:03 PM
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Re: Tattoos-What do ya think?
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Originally Posted by tbpew
JT,
If you think injecting an image into your skin is not about personal adorning, involving a person seeking to be seen in some orchestrated light, I disagree.
People do not suffer the cost, discomfort and 'functional' permanance without some expectation that it will influence how others will preceive them outwardly. To me, that is unmistakeably a purposed, premeditated, adornment.
In the NT, grace teaches us that everything is about motive; the heart condition. IMO, if I want to alter the outward appearance of my skin with various man-made images, I have a circumstance at work in my heart that is not authored by God's Holy Spirit.
Actions are merely symptoms.
Isn't it great how we can all openly share our opinions!
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Excellent thoughts.
I also think "shunning the appearance of evil" comes into play here.
You identify with an ungodly sub-culture when you go the tattoo route.
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