Good thing it doesn't say in Leviticus not to cut my inner nose hairs....or the hair that grows on my ears. I'd be damned forever. Lol
Some People Get Tattoos
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Good thing it doesn't say in Leviticus not to cut my inner nose hairs....or the hair that grows on my ears. I'd be damned forever. Lol
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so this tattoo of Donald duck on my left buttock is unbiblical ?... now Im told ...
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Your average Joe these days isn't getting a tattoo for the dead. Here the practices described above relate to ancient pagan mourning rites. Same goes for the cutting of the body to bloody ribbons. And that's the context of the verse.
When I was in High School, back in the early 80's, I could not name one person that I knew personally who had a tattoo. Back then it seemed like the majority of people who had tattoos were either bikers, sailors or convicts. Today many people are getting them. The culture has certainly changed.
Tattoos has it's beginnings in the occult thousands of years ago. But like other things, this world will take it and turn it into something glamorous with movie stars, sports heroes, and such. It never is long until the Christians jump on board and follow suit with "Christian" tattoos so they don't feel left out. The believers are getting new bodies one day and God will wipe those tattoos clean.
I have three tattoos and they all reference Jesus Christ's majesty.
Its interesting to see who lives by grace and who shuns grace for self righteousness.
Its interesting to see who lives by grace and who shuns grace for self righteousness.
context does not help people who try to mis-use Scripture and make the Bible say things it does not say.
in the same way that locks are only for honest people ( criminals would just break it and go in) context is for people interested in what the Bible actually says.
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it's the devolvement (is that a word?) that often accompanies anything that folks can take sides on round here these parts
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thepsalmist
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Hehe ... I have the same shirt ... but mine is a parody of Gold's Gym - instead it's God's gym
"His pain your gain"
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I could imagine the person getting the tatoo having some good chats about Jesus with the one doing it
Haha ... I spent two days ... approximately six hours ... reasoning about God and life with a tattoo artist, to coax him into giving me my tattoo.
Finally he conceded.
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When I was young, if I told either one of my parents I wanted a tattoo, they'd say, "Over my dead body!"
Does that count?
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Okay. I don't really think GOD is looking on the outer flesh as much as HE is looking inside and upon the heart.
I can pretty myself up on the outside (like Jezebel) but if the inside is "ugly"...that can't be hidden from HIM.
And no offense meant...I did not mean that tattooings are some sort of attempt to cover up and make pretty what one thinks is ugly.
That isn't what I meant at all.
Now, if you decided for a questionable tattoo, well that would be a different thing completely...
Not what it says, what it says is this...
Lev 19:27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.
Albert Barnes has this...
Round the corners of your heads - This may allude to such a custom as that of the Arabs described by Herodotus. They used to show honor to their deity Orotal by cutting the hair away from the temples in a circular form. Compare the margin reference.
Adam Clarke:
Ye shall not round the corners your heads - This and the following verse evidently refer to customs which must have existed among the Egyptians when the Israelites sojourned in Egypt; and what they were it is now difficult, even with any probability, to conjecture. Herodotus observes that the Arabs shave or cut their hair round, in honor of Bacchus, who, they say, had his hair cut in this way, lib. iii., cap. 8. He says also that the Macians, a people of Libya, cut their hair round, so as to leave a tuft on the top of the head, lib. iv., cap. 175. In this manner the Chinese cut their hair to the present day. This might have been in honor of some idol, and therefore forbidden to the Israelites.
The hair was much used in divination among the ancients, and for purposes of religious superstition among the Greeks; and particularly about the time of the giving of this law, as this is supposed to have been the era of the Trojan war. We learn from Homer that it was customary for parents to dedicate the hair of their children to some god; which, when they came to manhood, they cut off and consecrated to the deity. Achilles, at the funeral of Patroclus, cut off his golden locks which his father had dedicated to the river god Sperchius, and threw them into the flood: -
Matthew Henry:
There was a superstition even in trimming themselves used by the heathen, which must not be imitated by the people of God: You shall not round the corners of your heads. Those that worshipped the hosts of heaven, in honour of them, cut their hair so as that their heads might resemble the celestial globe; but, as the custom was foolish itself, so, being done with respect to their false gods, it was idolatrous. 4. The rites and ceremonies by which they expressed their sorrow at their funerals must not be imitated, Lev_19:28.
JFB:
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, etc. — It seems probable that this fashion had been learned by the Israelites in Egypt, for the ancient Egyptians had their dark locks cropped short or shaved with great nicety, so that what remained on the crown appeared in the form of a circle surrounding the head, while the beard was dressed into a square form. This kind of coiffure had a highly idolatrous meaning; and it was adopted, with some slight variations, by almost all idolaters in ancient times. (Jer_9:25, Jer_9:26; Jer_25:23, where “in the utmost corners” means having the corners of their hair cut.) Frequently a lock or tuft of hair was left on the hinder part of the head, the rest being cut round in the form of a ring, as the Turks, Chinese, and Hindus do at the present day.
This is not about hair styles or cutting your hair, it is about styling your hair in idolatrous fashion to honor some pagan deity.
Haha ... I spent two days ... approximately six hours ... reasoning about God and life with a tattoo artist, to coax him into giving me my tattoo.
Finally he conceded.
Maybe you witnessed to the tattoo artist! Maybe you were meant to speak with that tattoo artist for those two days...
The point of this thread was not about tattoos! I'm so sorry that I even mentioned it! It was to point out that God loves us so much that He ENGRAVED us in the palm of His hands!
i met a man, a Jew, one day at work while i was working out of state, who had the name of God written in Hebrew across his right arm. i asked him about what it said, and we talked & glorified God together, about how He is 'the strength of our right arm' and we recited the shema together. the rest of the day whenever we saw each other we smiled; bumping into each other would make us think of the Lord.
all because he had a tattoo. otherwise i never would have spoken to him at all. maybe i would have been afraid of him because he was middle-eastern looking lol.