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S
Thats a great point! It doesnt matter wether or not the tat is for God, its still what YOU want. I can honestly say that God doesnt want you to have tats. If he did he would probably put it somewhere in the Bible or us being born with one, but its not like hes going to condemn you. As for peircings, how many times do you get them to glorify God rather then for fashion reasons?
C
wow this thread is crazy
hahah first thing i want to pint out is tattoos are way older than slavery in England, maybe that is were the modern craze for tattoos began, but tattoos actually date all the back to ancient Indian peoples like the Aztecs
personally i do not believe in tattoos or piercings only for the fact that people are very judgmental and if they see me rockin allot of different tattoos and piercings, there is a huge potential that it could hurt my witness to that person, or it could cause someone to stumble.
i understand that for the average person tattoos have became a very common thing but there is always that one person who will disagree with them or be judgmental because of them.
In Romans 14:13-19 it says
"13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. " (NIV)
in this particular context Paul was talking to Gentiles and Jewish converts in the Roman Church who were disagreeing because Jews saw eating pork as bad (old covenant) and gentiles didnt.
but the point of this scripture is universal
and rather you want to argue my point or not it is a fact that there are people both christian and non christian who do and dont agree with tattoos for proof of that, just read this thread up to this point, because all it has been up to this point is people going back and forth trying to justify their views
when scripture clearly says
"Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men."
hahah first thing i want to pint out is tattoos are way older than slavery in England, maybe that is were the modern craze for tattoos began, but tattoos actually date all the back to ancient Indian peoples like the Aztecs
personally i do not believe in tattoos or piercings only for the fact that people are very judgmental and if they see me rockin allot of different tattoos and piercings, there is a huge potential that it could hurt my witness to that person, or it could cause someone to stumble.
i understand that for the average person tattoos have became a very common thing but there is always that one person who will disagree with them or be judgmental because of them.
In Romans 14:13-19 it says
"13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 14As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. 15If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. 16Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. " (NIV)
in this particular context Paul was talking to Gentiles and Jewish converts in the Roman Church who were disagreeing because Jews saw eating pork as bad (old covenant) and gentiles didnt.
but the point of this scripture is universal
and rather you want to argue my point or not it is a fact that there are people both christian and non christian who do and dont agree with tattoos for proof of that, just read this thread up to this point, because all it has been up to this point is people going back and forth trying to justify their views
when scripture clearly says
"Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. 17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, 18because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men."
J
Not destroying, just something to think about... Also.. this website is interesting as well..
http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/bible.html
I am no biblical scholar, and will not attempt it either.
http://www.biblebelievers.com/watkins_tattoos/bible.html
I am no biblical scholar, and will not attempt it either.
K
I don't mind piercings as long as you don't get more than three on your face. (I myself sported a septum piercing in college.) With that much metal on your face it gives me the impression you're trying to hide your face or something. Accentuate- don't over-do it.
Tattoos are much trickier. I graduated from art school and I saw a ton of stupid tattoos and a few awesome ones. The best tattoos were definitely the ones that were designed, and not the random floating face-on-your-arm type. (Ever really think about how awkward it looks to have a head on a different body part?) And if you had multiple tattoos it was even harder to look good because if they didn't relate to teach other it ended up looking like a schizophrenic's daydream.
The biggest problem with tattoos is that they're so subjectively attractive. Just because a butterfly means femininity and life to you doesn't mean the person looking at it says, "Oh, how feminine". They might think, "What is that bug doing on that girl?" Also, there is a lot of regret when people get tattoos because where you put it (or what it is) can be considered a fad.
Tattoos are much trickier. I graduated from art school and I saw a ton of stupid tattoos and a few awesome ones. The best tattoos were definitely the ones that were designed, and not the random floating face-on-your-arm type. (Ever really think about how awkward it looks to have a head on a different body part?) And if you had multiple tattoos it was even harder to look good because if they didn't relate to teach other it ended up looking like a schizophrenic's daydream.
The biggest problem with tattoos is that they're so subjectively attractive. Just because a butterfly means femininity and life to you doesn't mean the person looking at it says, "Oh, how feminine". They might think, "What is that bug doing on that girl?" Also, there is a lot of regret when people get tattoos because where you put it (or what it is) can be considered a fad.
R
My mother pierced my ears when I was a baby, I know that doesn't mean I was an ungodly baby or my mother was being ungodly for getting them peirced. When you think about it a lot of things we do is changin our apperance such as wearing colored contacts, cutting your hair, getting acrylic nails even when you don't get any color, growing a beard, even shaving your legs or beard is changing your appearance when you think about because hair is natural on your body. I don't believe all those things are ungodly.