Should a Christian get tattoos

The only time I can recall Jesus saying something of this nature was in reference to the self-righteousness of the Pharisees.


If He had used outside appearance as the indicator of what's on the inside, He wouldn't have allowed the prostitute to wash His feet with her tears.

 

Tattoos may not be something you like, but they are no more sinful than piercing your ears or coloring your hair. (Would that be a hair tattoo?)

 

The moral law hasn't changed. Tattoos are a matter of immorality by association in any aspect.

There's no need for a tattoo to cover anything that cosmetic surgery can't change that appearance so that is a very poor excuse.

We are of the Levitical priesthood spiritually and from the human aspect. Our part in the priesthood after the order of Melchisadec is only in Christ and has NOTHING to dio with any of our ability to maintain it.

The Levitical order is in effect morally, not ceremonially. It all has to do with sanctification by obedience to the commands found in the bible, not in our ability to keep those commandments perfectly, (which is an impossibility anyway).

God told Israel not to do it, we are the spiritual Israel and God hasn't changed.

 

Do you think tattoos beautify the body?:smilewinkgrin:

 

I believe that prostitue was a former one and her appearance had definitely changed else Jesus would not have allowed her to be adorned as the former prostitute to wash his feet. Why not? Because those onlookers knew her and DID see the outward and could not see the change in her heart that Jesus did see. She wasn't showing just remorse but total repentence and worship. There's a HUGE difference.

 

No, I just believe that it looks trashy and that there is a reason women choose to get tattooed when they know it looks trashy.

To illustrate that just because something isn't found in scripture doesn't mean it's not true.

Really? He said "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth doesn't speak"?

Agreed. I'm not talking about being clean or unclean.

Irrelevant to this conversation.

Yep.

If a guy shows up at my door when a t-shirt that says "NAMBLA Convention, 1988" and says, "Kim couldn't make it tonight so it looks like I'm going to be watching your kids", he's going to meet my two friends, Mr. Sig and Mr. Saur.

 

That's ridiculous, and it wasn't a moral law then either. It was separation from pagan practice. Are you saying I'm immoral until I have my tatoo removed?

 

First of all, will you please stop with the crazy fonts and colors? It makes it next to impossible to quote you.

Second, I stand by the verse I quoted and believe that others will understand the point.

 

Prove it from scripture, Paul, that tatoos are part of the "moral" law. Show me from scripture how having a tatoo keeps me from "love God with all thy heart and love thy neighbor as thyself, for on these commandments rest the law and the prophets" (Cindi paraphrase of Mt 22: 37-40). That is the moral laws that we are to keep. The Jewish Laws are passed away. The only prohibition against tatoos is the scripture of the OP that clearly relates why behind the tatoo, to the prohibiton. (that of not tatooing for worship purposes)

I don't know why you believe this, but you need to study your Roman history for a while longer. There was NO overcoming the title of prostitute. Once in the business there was NO getting out. Cruel but true. You can't assume that this prostitute was a former one, because she would have had no way then of making a living. NO one would hire a woman, much less one who had been a prostitute.

I believe Christ comes to us just as we are and this whole episode was to prove His love for those who couldn't possibly get out of the life they were stuck in. Remember, or learn, that prostitutes were most often SLAVES who had no say in their own destiny. Bible times and cultures are NOT our own.

Bro. Blackbird you are better than this. You have yet to prove that getting a tatoo in this day and age, one that is NOT associated with pagan worship, is disobedience to scripture.

JDF, you may hold the opinion that women with tatoos are trashy, but your opinion is just that. An opinion. And since we are giving opinions, right now, I don't have a very high one of a man who would judge anyone, much less a woman, on the basis of a tatoo to be "trashy". You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. You change hearts with scripture not opinion.


On another note: when you reply to this post realize that I will working until well after 5 o'clock this evening. I will return to this thread sometime after that, maybe waaay after that.

 

I don't care. They still look trashy.

 

You would just deny it again.

Should i now call you a pharisee?

I see people who come out of sin alot and i don't hold them to a higher standard than God like you say here.

Huh? you mean the demoniac of Gedera was stuck with the swine and some imposter took his place following Jesus!!! You mean Mary Magdalene was stuck and she never quit being a prostitute!!!

It's guilt by association.

If I have a gun and a dead body in my trunk and get searched, I may not be guilty of anything, but one thing for certain, I am going to jail!

If a person has a tattoo it proves they were willing to be associated with others who have them. Not only that, but it is a pagan practice to stick or be stuck with needles repeatedly to alter the skin.

It's called being "Emo" now.

 

:laugh::laugh: So now I'm emo too? I'll remember that when I'm penning cows this afternoon.

 

I can't understand why some don't understand.

The same Lord of all has a tattoo that said make no markings upon your flesh???

That's a S----T----R----E----T----C----H!

 

Good pojnts, yet some will say they just wanted to without falling under any the catagories above:smilewinkgrin: