Preferred tattoo design faith-based?

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Is your tattoo design likely to be faith-based?

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faroukfarouk

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RickyZ said:
If I had a beard, yes, I would think twice about trimming the corners of it.

Not that we live under the condemnation of the law, but they are still good guidlines to live by. And while I may not understand it, God felt it was important enough to point out. So, do I live according to my lack of understanding, or do I trust God enough to know that He has reasons for what He has said about it?
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You see, this whole thing has dispensationally-relevant overtones. As a believer in the Lord Jesus under grace from a Gentile background, I don't see myself as living like a Jew with a bushy beard, under the law in the land.

I guess I read Scofield,Darby, etc. to profit, when it comes to dispensations.

Blessings.
 
RickyZ

RickyZ

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The problem with dispensations thinking is that they tend to think that while God is focused on one aspect of His personality, all the other aspects cease. That is not true. We may be in the dispensation period of grace, but that doesn't mean the dispensation of law is no longer valid. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Just because He focuses on one thing, it doesn't mean all the other things are dead and gone.

I've said it before - as you read your Bible, if you don't think a certain thing applies to you, rip that page out. Then when you're done you can see just how hole-y you think God's word is.
 
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faroukfarouk

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RickyZ said:
The problem with dispensations thinking is that they tend to think that while God is focused on one aspect of His personality, all the other aspects cease. That is not true. We may be in the dispensation period of grace, but that doesn't mean the dispensation of law is no longer valid. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Just because He focuses on one thing, it doesn't mean all the other things are dead and gone.

I've said it before - as you read your Bible, if you don't think a certain thing applies to you, rip that page out. Then when you're done you can see just how hole-y you think God's word is.
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Well, if you think that we are still under the law, and that there is supposedly no distinction between Israel and the church, then I guess I should be practising the duty of an husband's brother, and then Arkansas virgins should go dancing in the vineyards in order to obtain husbands and thereby preserve a name in Top Notch Fundamental Baptist Church, and maybe also while we are at it we should execute all the Christians who go to Red Lobster after church on Sundays because the supposedly still extant sabbath is being broken, etc., etc.

Tongue-in-cheek, certainly, but you get my drift.

If however the Gospel - as opposed to the law - is the rule of the New Testament believer's life, and, if a young Christian gets John 3.16 on his or her wrist and finds pragmatically that it works in witness, then this aspect would presumably be paramount. (Just as Paul, though fiercely opposed to circumcision as a law-keeping obligation, circumcised Timothy so that he could have more opportunities to present the Gospel.)

Blessings.
 
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I think I would ask God first...... after all, I belong to Him. :rolleyes:

(BTW, there's no such thing as silent consent with God ;))
 
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faroukfarouk

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Stephen63 said:
I think I would ask God first...... after all, I belong to Him. :rolleyes:

(BTW, there's no such thing as silent consent with God ;))
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How do you mean?

Like, it would be a personal conscience matter, like a lot of things? (Romans 14, etc.)

Blessings.
 
RickyZ

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faroukfarouk said:
Well, if you think that we are still under the law, and that there is supposedly no distinction between Israel and the church, then I guess I should be practising the duty of an husband's brother, and then Arkansas virgins should go dancing in the vineyards in order to obtain husbands and thereby preserve a name in Top Notch Fundamental Baptist Church, and maybe also while we are at it we should execute all the Christians who go to Red Lobster after church on Sundays because the supposedly still extant sabbath is being broken, etc., etc.

Tongue-in-cheek, certainly, but you get my drift.

If however the Gospel - as opposed to the law - is the rule of the New Testament believer's life, and, if a young Christian gets John 3.16 on his or her wrist and finds pragmatically that it works in witness, then this aspect would presumably be paramount. (Just as Paul, though fiercely opposed to circumcision as a law-keeping obligation, circumcised Timothy so that he could have more opportunities to present the Gospel.)

Blessings.
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So then get busy ripping out pages. And I guess that includes all the New Testament "grace' passages about women in the church.
 
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faroukfarouk

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pinterest dot com

"So, what does this mean?"

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Like, I'm wondering, if it causes someone to ask what the Scripture means, then, hasn't it in a sense been successful?

Blessings.
 
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faroukfarouk

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RickyZ said:
So then get busy ripping out pages. And I guess that includes all the New Testament "grace' passages about women in the church.
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Not ripping, but figuring context, dispensations, etc.

Blessings.
 
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faroukfarouk said:
pinterest dot com

"So, what does this mean?"

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Like, I'm wondering, if it causes someone to ask what the Scripture means, then, hasn't it in a sense been successful?

Blessings.
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So the end justifies the means?
 
RickyZ

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1 Cor 9:22 - To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

So taking this to it's logical conclusion, it's ok to be an adulterer if in the end you scream Gods name and convert an adulterer?
 
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faroukfarouk

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RickyZ said:
1 Cor 9:22 - To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

So taking this to it's logical conclusion, it's ok to be an adulterer if in the end you scream Gods name and convert an adulterer?
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Nope.

But remember that Paul circumcised Timothy. Not that Paul wanted to bring Timothy back under the law - far from it - but he wanted to Timothy to maximize opportunities for the Gospel, which would happen if Jews knew that Timothy was circumcised.

Blessings.
 
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didymos

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faroukfarouk said:
Oh, I regularly ask this question about various polls and threads that I started. :)

Ideen zijn "Te huur"...
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*Ideeën.

Nice try, I have no idea what you mean by that in this context though.
 
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didymos

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faroukfarouk said:
Just an expression.
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Maybe in english, not in dutch: we would rather 'steal' ideas:
'Beter goed gejat dan slecht bedacht.'

(Loosely translated: 'It's better to steal a good idea, than to come up with a bad idea yourself.')
 
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faroukfarouk

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I think the idea of a faith based tattoo, whether adapted, borrowed, 'stolen', or whatever, has become regarded by a lot of Christians as pragmatically effective in witness, anyway.
 
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