My tattoo was relevant to me the moment I got it and it still is because of the meaning it have for me.Should I have let somebody use a permanent ink and wrote the words on my body ? My answer is no and even if it was a bible ref I answer would still be no.For me its not about what the 'picture' or 'message' its about the temple.
I will have to witness in a way th does not include tattoos
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#personalopinion
Thanks for your comments, Kylie-jo; appreciated.
I think it's a matter of dispensational emphasis, right? if you see what I mean. Some Reformed Christians (a lot in Holland, South Africa, etc.) make the Old Testament law their emphasis, and will even claim that we are under the law and the purpose of the professedly Christian life is to keep the law. As I see it as a dispensationalist, however, the law was changed (Hebrews 7) and we now have a better hope.
The whole emphasis and direction of the New Testament believer's life under grace is to prioritize Gospel testimony.
So for example, Paul warned strongly against imposing circumcision, because it implied law-keeping. But he also circumcised someone as a voluntary thing - not because of its supposed intrinsic value - but so that people from a particular background (Jewish) would have a greater hearing for the Gospel.
Today many Christians feel that those who are themselves tattooed are more likely to listen to someone with a faith based tattoo. Not that the tattoo itself is of spiritual value intrinsically but because it pragmatically can help in witness situations.
And Romans 14 Christian liberty is the rule for Christians seeking to testify rather than the Old Testament law.
This is why I wondered if yours happened to be faith based.
(My further two cents'; I just hope I an making some sort of sense?)
Blessings.