eyeliner on mickey?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Sam

If YHWH used the picture of His having a special friend tattooed on His hand so He wouldn't forget them, doesn't that seem like having a tattoo is not an evil thing? If a tattoo were evil, would God have pictured Himself as having one?

Looks like Clarke's doesn't think it's much of a stretch.

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 49:16
Verse 16. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands "Behold, on the palms of my hands have I delineated thee"] This is certainly an allusion to some practice, common among the Jews at that time, of making marks on their hands or arms by punctures on the skin, with some sort of sign or representation of the city or temple, to show their affection and zeal for it. They had a method of making such punctures indelible by fire, or by staining. See note on chap. xliv. 6. It is well known, that the pilgrims at the holy sepulcher get themselves marked in this manner with what are called the ensigns of Jerusalem. See Maundrell, p. 75, where he tells us how it is performed: and this art is practiced by travelling Jews all over the world at this day.

[Cindy]

If God is a spirit, how is he going to have anything on his hands?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Cindy

If God is a spirit, how is he going to have anything on his hands?

The point that Sam is making - apparently, they were familiar with the practice of it being done and he used that analogy to make his point.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Cindy

If God is a spirit, how is he going to have anything on his hands?

God some times speaks of Himself anthropomorphically.

[Truthseeker]

So I guess then tattooed up rappers are the most like God.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Sam

If YHWH used the picture of His having a special friend tattooed on His hand so He wouldn't forget them, doesn't that seem like having a tattoo is not an evil thing? If a tattoo were evil, would God have pictured Himself as having one?

Gill says this:

"lo, as upon the hands thou art engraven before me;''

signifying that his people were always in his sight, his eyes were ever upon them, and never withdrawn from them; as anything held in the hand, or tied to or wore upon it, as a signet or ring that has the name of a person on it, to which the allusion may be; which shows how near and dear they are to him, what affection he has for them, and care of them; see Son_8:6. Some think respect is had to the wounds in the hands of Christ, which, being on their account, are looked upon and remembered by him; or, however, to their being in his hands, out of which none can pluck them, Joh_10:28,

Barnes says this:

Lev. 19:28
Cuttings in your flesh for the dead - Compare the margin reference. Among the excitable races of the East this custom appears to have been very common.
Print any marks - Tattooing was probably practiced in ancient Egypt, as it is now by the lower classes of the modern Egyptians,and was connected with superstitious notions. Any voluntary disfigurement of the person was in itself an outrage upon God’s workmanship, and might well form the subject of a law.