Tattoos, sin or not sin?

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Tattoos

  • Sin

    Votes: 10 28.6%

  • Not sin

    Votes: 9 25.7%

  • NOT SIN BUT UNWISE

    Votes: 14 40.0%

  • IDK

    Votes: 2 5.7%
  • Total voters
    35
  • Poll closed .
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Joshua_Generation

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The_Wanderer said:
Does the Holy Spirit not do the "reaching"?
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By all means allow me to rephrase so your super spiritual self is satisfied. :rolleyes:

Funny thing about this whole subject your statement here. I know many brothers and sisters that are tattooed from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet and were that way before coming to Christ and are sons and daughters of God, who the HOLY SPIRIT works through and reaches people with tattoos for Christ that you and I could never reach.|

I am being this way, because anyone of any kind of spiritual maturity knows that the Holy Spirit works through people to reach the lost, so I did not feel compelled to have to say it.
 
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Jeff_56

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Dec 26, 2014
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you don't have to be 'spiritual' any more than a 3 year old who trusts yahweh.

consideer it like smoking. a 3 year old watching someone pollute themselves with smoking or with tattoos can see the harm done each day to their body, life, testimony , and others around them....

when someone repents of smoking or of tattoos, the healing process starts immediately, as a 3 year old can see,
and even though the tattoos don't ever go away usually, the polluting power of them can by God's Grace.

the testimony of someone saved from smoking or from the deception/pollution of tattoos is that
GOD set them free by GRACE in JESUS, not in themselves or in their own power (but with their willing choice, yes).

and thus the testimony of the grace of GOD in JESUS is true and working so others can see it in the lives of those who have been saved.
 
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passing_through

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Feb 1, 2015
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Ugly said:
That's subjective. Many people think tattoos look good, show not bad representation of a person and i've seen many Christians use their Christian tattoos as an opportunity to witness.
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Disagree wholeheartedly.
 
blue_ladybug

blue_ladybug

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#164
Feb 21, 2014
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Tattoos disfigure and mar the skin. God says not to disfigure ourselves or mar our bodies. It's unattractive, especially if you have them all over your body, and serves no biblical purpose. And you cannot "witness" to someone by using a tattoo..that's ridiculous, IMO.
 
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The_Wanderer

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Aug 26, 2014
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Joshua_Generation said:
By all means allow me to rephrase so your super spiritual self is satisfied. :rolleyes:

Funny thing about this whole subject your statement here. I know many brothers and sisters that are tattooed from the crown of their heads to the soles of their feet and were that way before coming to Christ and are sons and daughters of God, who the HOLY SPIRIT works through and reaches people with tattoos for Christ that you and I could never reach.|

I am being this way, because anyone of any kind of spiritual maturity knows that the Holy Spirit works through people to reach the lost, so I did not feel compelled to have to say it.
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I see that your self-righteous attitude has resulted in me getting a snide and non-Christlike reply. Spiritual maturity, indeed. :rolleyes:
 
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The_Wanderer

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Aug 26, 2014
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According to the flawed line of logic of those here who love tattoos, I guess I need to be a drunk to reach drunkards, a whoremonger to reach whoremongers, or a thief to reach thieves.
Funny that the Holy Spirit reached me through a man on TV I used to ridicule and didn't identify with.
 
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The_Wanderer

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Aug 26, 2014
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Jeff_56 said:
you don't have to be 'spiritual' any more than a 3 year old who trusts yahweh.

consideer it like smoking. a 3 year old watching someone pollute themselves with smoking or with tattoos can see the harm done each day to their body, life, testimony , and others around them....

when someone repents of smoking or of tattoos, the healing process starts immediately, as a 3 year old can see,
and even though the tattoos don't ever go away usually, the polluting power of them can by God's Grace.

the testimony of someone saved from smoking or from the deception/pollution of tattoos is that
GOD set them free by GRACE in JESUS, not in themselves or in their own power (but with their willing choice, yes).

and thus the testimony of the grace of GOD in JESUS is true and working so others can see it in the lives of those who have been saved.
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Repentance is key. Once someone repents of something, they don't usually keep defending it with a religious fervor (like the pro-tattoo crowd here are).
Tattoos are just the latest fad. Because of that, hardly anyone sees anything wrong with having them. If the majority opinion were that tattoos look scuzzy and/or shady, I would suspect that most of those who defend them today would be on the opposite side and saying they look stupid. It's all about what's trendy.
 
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phil112

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The_Wanderer said:
..............................Tattoos are just the latest fad. ...................
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You do know the bible says not to get them....just out of curiosity, how old do you think the bible is?
 
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The_Wanderer

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Aug 26, 2014
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phil112 said:
You do know the bible says not to get them....just out of curiosity, how old do you think the bible is?
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Yes, I do know that. I'm just stating what I think is causing this mindset -- i.e. carnality.
The Bible was written thousands of years ago, but by an eternal God.
 
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phil112

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The_Wanderer said:
Yes, I do know that. I'm just stating what I think is causing this mindset -- i.e. carnality.
The Bible was written thousands of years ago, but by an eternal God.
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Friend, something that has been going on for thousands of years can hardly be called a fad. :p
 
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The_Wanderer

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phil112 said:
Friend, something that has been going on for thousands of years can hardly be called a fad. :p
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But it is. You've lived a little longer than I have and even I've seen it go in cycles. I'm not referring to the small segment of people who always had them throughout history, but rather to the masses. If Christ should delay His return, I would think that we'll reach a cycle where most people think they're ugly again.
I might add that Christians never seemed interested in this sort of thing in the past, but the fads of the world are influencing people seemingly like never before.
 
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Jeff_56

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it's multiplied greatly from being illegal twenty years ago in places, to being on many deceived people at church and sunday school... in the same cities where it was illegal....

definitely big time 'fad' the last few years, promoted wickedly and shamelessly, and all 'bad'..... like the rest of the world....
 
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Jokurandomi

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Mar 7, 2015
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[h=1]Leviticus 19:28[/h]

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
 
Utah

Utah

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Dec 1, 2014
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I got another tattoo this past weekend but I don't know how to download pictures.

All I can tell you is it's straight, to the point, and kicks you know what. :cool:
 
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Jeff_56

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Jokurandomi said:
Leviticus 19:28



You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
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as in the days of noah, the world with its whole poopulation doesn't care - just goes on sinning more and more, worse and worse, until the end....
 
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