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Eating unclean meat is also in the old testament. The same reasoning for tattoos should be used here as well. To each their own in that regard but do it in faith. True. However, diet was re-addressed in the NT (Acts 10) whereas cutting and tattooing are not. Therefore IT STANDS that these occultic and demonic practices are to be avoided. These practices were forbidden by God because they were acts that the pagans did in the worship of their false Gods. Scripture still stands.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
The testimony God gave was the ten commandments, written with the finger of God twice. This was placed inside of the ark to show its spiritual meaning. This law did not contain any thing about eating pork or getting tattoos.
Deuteronomy 31:24-29
And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 29For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
The laws that Moses wrote were placed on the side of the ark, used as a witness against us. In breaking the spiritual law, we were then witnessed against by these laws. This is what Jesus took out of the way.
Colossians 2:8-23
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
We are dead in Christ from the rudiments of the world. So why again subject ourselves to ordinances which causes all to perish with the using? If a person chooses not to have tattoos for whatever reason, by all means, that is the person's right to do so. But do it in faith. Likewise, if one chooses to get a tattoo, by all means do so; just do it in faith. But for one to condemn another in the law in regards to something that was nailed to cross with Jesus is to again subjecting that person to an ordinance that causes that person to perish!
Maggie, I'm not trying to change your mind on getting a tattoo. I believe as well to honour my body. But if I choose to one day get a tattoo, I do it knowing, in faith that I cannot lose my salvation because of it. In Christ, I am no longer subject to that ordinance. If a person has a tattoo of a skull or something of that nature and you believe it is of the occult, please don't condemn that person to waiver in his mind and come under subjection!