Preferred tattoo design faith-based?

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Is your tattoo design likely to be faith-based?


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Feb 21, 2014
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My tattoo was relevant to me the moment I got it and it still is because of the meaning it have for me...
Oh it has to be meaningful. Very meaningful. It wouldn't make sense for a Christian with a faith based tattoo to be unable to explain what it meant to him or her.

Blessings.
 
Oct 31, 2011
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I vote to listen to God when we are told not to make marks on our skin. Just because there are some people who can't read old testament law in line with the culture it was written to, or read it with spirit and truth, or find what Christ completed like the temple, it is not saying that our God is not speaking. Christ and the Father are one. So, if you choose not to listen to the God who created you, that is your problem. For me, I worship Christ, the Father, and the HS, and I listen to all of them.
 
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I vote to listen to God when we are told not to make marks on our skin. Just because there are some people who can't read old testament law in line with the culture it was written to, or read it with spirit and truth, or find what Christ completed like the temple, it is not saying that our God is not speaking. Christ and the Father are one. So, if you choose not to listen to the God who created you, that is your problem. For me, I worship Christ, the Father, and the HS, and I listen to all of them.
Thank-you for your comments. The next verse in Leviticus 19 says about not trimming the corners of one's beard. Do preachers under the New Testament order of things shave? and are faith based tattoos in the category of pagan death rites mentioned in the previous verses in Leviticus 19?
 
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I vote to listen to God when we are told not to make marks on our skin. Just because there are some people who can't read old testament law in line with the culture it was written to, or read it with spirit and truth, or find what Christ completed like the temple, it is not saying that our God is not speaking. Christ and the Father are one. So, if you choose not to listen to the God who created you, that is your problem. For me, I worship Christ, the Father, and the HS, and I listen to all of them.
bible verse: For the carnal mind is death, but the mind of the spirit which is the mind of Christ is life and peace, we are to be a santified people called out of the world, he that loveth the world and the things in the world does not have the love of the father in him. For man cannot love two masters, satan ,and God, either he loves one and hates the other.
 
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bible verse: For the carnal mind is death, but the mind of the spirit which is the mind of Christ is life and peace, we are to be a santified people called out of the world, he that loveth the world and the things in the world does not have the love of the father in him. For man cannot love two masters, satan ,and God, either he loves one and hates the other.
Great verses; how do they relate directly to faith based (Bible ref. etc.) designs obtained in conscience for witness reasons?

Blessings.
 
Oct 31, 2011
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Great verses; how do they relate directly to faith based (Bible ref. etc.) designs obtained in conscience for witness reasons? Blessings.
They relate by humbly listening to God as the master of our lives. They relate by not making any permanent changes to anything that is a temple of God, but leaving it as God created it. They relate by worshipping in spirit and truth.
 

RickyZ

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Is it ok to ignore the Biblical word against tats if in the end it brings a witness? Sure, just as ignoring the Biblical word against extra-marital sex is ok as long as in the end you scream "Oh God!".

I know your hearts are innocent, but the call of your flesh is too strong. Follow the Holy Spirit, He has other ways to witness.
 
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Is it ok to ignore the Biblical word against tats if in the end it brings a witness? Sure, just as ignoring the Biblical word against extra-marital sex is ok as long as in the end you scream "Oh God!".

I know your hearts are innocent, but the call of your flesh is too strong. Follow the Holy Spirit, He has other ways to witness.
Well, I would not have linked e.g., a Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, with fornicating with someone.

In any case, if preachers shave, and the next verse in the Leviticus passage says about not trimming the corners of one's beard, then what preachers in the New Testament grace era of things are saying is that the passage is more applicable to Old Testament Jews in the land under the law.

If you follow my thought...

Blessings.
 
Feb 21, 2014
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My tattoo was relevant to me the moment I got it and it still is because of the meaning it have for me.....
Kylie-jo: Some Christians with faith based tattoos would say that personal relevance of the design makes it especially authentic in witness. But you must know what now motivates or does not motivate you in terms of this medium.

Blessings.
 

Grandpa

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The next verse talks about not trimming the corners of beards. Do preachers shave? and are Old Testament Jews in the land under the law in the same relationship with the law as New Testament believers in the church under Romans 14 Christian liberty, particularly as regards their motives to share the Gospel?
Isn't it weird how we choose some things as taboo and others not so much? Does not shaving make us holier?

Does not getting a tattoo make us holier?

I was going to get a tattoo with my daughter. Romans 8:28 on my back shoulder. But then my daughter told me the name of the tattoo parlor where she made her appointment and I told her I changed my mind. The name was "Sin City" tattoo shop. I guess that was one extra step that my conscience wasn't willing to take... I am the weak brother... lol
 

shrimp

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I vote to listen to God when we are told not to make marks on our skin. Just because there are some people who can't read old testament law in line with the culture it was written to, or read it with spirit and truth, or find what Christ completed like the temple, it is not saying that our God is not speaking. Christ and the Father are one. So, if you choose not to listen to the God who created you, that is your problem. For me, I worship Christ, the Father, and the HS, and I listen to all of them.
I could not have said this better.
 
Mar 18, 2011
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when I want to express myself with marks and words I put on a hat or change my shirt. :)

and yes, I prefer christian content :)
 

shrimp

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Farouk, you have many threads on things like tattoos, piercings, hair, etc. promoting what you think is ok when it is sin. You come at those who would abide by God's laws in Leviticus with the same beard argument. My answer to your beard argument is this: There are many laws that pastors choose not to follow, that is their choice and they will have to answer to God for it. Their decision to disobey God does NOT IN ANY WAY change God's Word nor our obligation to follow it

What is your goal? To lead people astray? To cause division? To prove there is division?

Tattoos have a demonic spirit behind it. I do not condemn people, it is not my place. But, beware of the wiles of the Devil.
Those who have tattoos and have repented and ceased are ok, but those who haven't have some answering to do. Not to me but to Jesus.
 
Oct 31, 2011
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Well, I would not have linked e.g., a Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, with fornicating with someone.

In any case, if preachers shave, and the next verse in the Leviticus passage says about not trimming the corners of one's beard, then what preachers in the New Testament grace era of things are saying is that the passage is more applicable to Old Testament Jews in the land under the law.

If you follow my thought...

Blessings.
Permanently changing our flesh against God's instructions on good living and fornicating with someone against bible instructions for good living can be related to each other.

In the 60's a beard was a symbol of rebellion, so in the same spirit of OT rules against trimming the beard, many churches frowned on beards. It is not the letter of the law that God looks at, it is truth and spirit. You cannot deface flesh that is a temple of God with symbols of faith and still not rebel against God not wanting you to treat the temple of the Lord in that way.

That is my thought on how God looks at what we do as an example of how we think.
 
Feb 21, 2014
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Isn't it weird how we choose some things as taboo and others not so much? Does not shaving make us holier?

Does not getting a tattoo make us holier?

I was going to get a tattoo with my daughter. Romans 8:28 on my back shoulder. But then my daughter told me the name of the tattoo parlor where she made her appointment and I told her I changed my mind. The name was "Sin City" tattoo shop. I guess that was one extra step that my conscience wasn't willing to take... I am the weak brother... lol
Grandpa: I agree about the name of the tattoo parlor!

Did your daughter get the Romans 8.28 (great verse!) tattoo in the end, there or someplace else?

Blessings.
 
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Farouk, you have many threads on things like tattoos, piercings, hair, etc. promoting what you think is ok when it is sin. You come at those who would abide by God's laws in Leviticus with the same beard argument. My answer to your beard argument is this: There are many laws that pastors choose not to follow, that is their choice and they will have to answer to God for it. Their decision to disobey God does NOT IN ANY WAY change God's Word nor our obligation to follow it

What is your goal? To lead people astray? To cause division? To prove there is division?

Tattoos have a demonic spirit behind it. I do not condemn people, it is not my place. But, beware of the wiles of the Devil.
Those who have tattoos and have repented and ceased are ok, but those who haven't have some answering to do. Not to me but to Jesus.
My wife and I talked to a lady with John 3.16 tattooed the other day.

She said it was her favorite verse.

Is she supposed to repent? or be glad that it is a witness?

Blessings.
 
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Permanently changing our flesh against God's instructions on good living and fornicating with someone against bible instructions for good living can be related to each other.

In the 60's a beard was a symbol of rebellion, so in the same spirit of OT rules against trimming the beard, many churches frowned on beards. It is not the letter of the law that God looks at, it is truth and spirit. You cannot deface flesh that is a temple of God with symbols of faith and still not rebel against God not wanting you to treat the temple of the Lord in that way.

That is my thought on how God looks at what we do as an example of how we think.
I have a beard.

So am I in rebellion against God because I have a beard?

I don't criticize those who shave, though.
 

RickyZ

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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?