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Should a Christian get tattoos

Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Theopolis, Feb 19, 2010.

  1. Alive in Christ

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  2. paul wassona

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    All civil laws are part of the moral issue now matter how hard you try to disconnect the two. The protection of the general public in health and life is what civil laws regulate. Even tattoo parlors have a civil law which requires them to be licensed. This IS a moral issue.
     
  3. Robert Snow

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    Paul, you are good at making outrageous statements. How about answering this question?
     
  4. menageriekeeper

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    :laugh: Okay, if you want to believe that, it won't hurt you any. There's a couple of fellas over in the politics section though, that'll argue with you if you try to tell them that the government is morally responsible for collecting taxes. :laugh:
     
  5. dcorbett

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    My son led his best friend to Christ after he himself was saved. His friend had some satanic tattoos and he said "Mike, what should I do? Should I get them removed?" and Mike said "Jer, your tattoos are a testimony to what you once were and no longer are." so Jer still has them and he is INDEED a testimony to a life changed.

    MY personal preference? I don't think a man should get a tattoo if they are a "work in progress" as most of us are, you may regret it for numerous reasons.....change of relationship, change of lifestyle, maturity, etc.

    I don't like tattoos on women. I agree it looks trailer park trashy....:laugh: - and I do believe that women should aspire to be ladies.
     
  6. Robert Snow

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    Do you believe everyone who lives in a trailer park is trash? Is that what you are saying?
     
  7. Theopolis

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    God can indeed turn our tests and trials into testimonies.
     
  8. Jon-Marc

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    I tend to be very opinionated (like most people) and tend to express my opinions with no regards as to the truth (like most people). :laugh:

     
  9. dcorbett

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    Chill out, Robert. That is a common expression that is used with tongue in cheek. In my profession, we would like to scud missile all the trailer parks around here! :tongue3: Did you ever hear the country song by Sammy Kershaw that has this verse?

    I said this is the queen of my double wide trailer
    With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
    Sometimes she runs and I've got to trail her
    Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck


    Everybody knows this!! Why are you focusing on one phrase I used?
     
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  10. Robert Snow

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    I have never heard the song. I should have used a :tongue3: after my posting. I was only needling you a little. No offense meant.
     
  11. dcorbett

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    No problem....chill out was a needle too. :laugh:
     
  12. paul wassona

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    No, taxpayers who benefit from government are morally responsible for paying taxes. The government has the duty to collect fair taxes and it is morally wrong to tax excessivley.

    Immorality breeds immorality and the "mark your skin crowd" is more connected to the immoral society verses a moral one.
     
  13. windcatcher

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    I was never inclined to get a tattoo.

    The most prominent reason was not spiritual at all. I don't like needles. I was also raised up to think of 'consequences'. In doing so, I saw the pretty and crisps markings of colorful tattoos on the skin of young people, when I was young.... but also saw the faded and smudged appearances on older people who had aged after getting their tattoos during a younger time. .......My impression..... do I want to wear that ugly thing later in life and be stuck with it?

    Another reason why I never got a tattoo: What might it tell others about me? Not that this really does 'tell the truth'. But, most everyone I ever knew who had a tattoo, when I was young, had a 'drinking' story to tell which went with the tattoo. When I was young, I had morals and values which I believed and was raised with, but I also had 'my life' and was not always obedient or lived out those principals. I might drink, and at a party, til I learned 'my limit', even get tipsy or drunk. Yes, it lowered my 'inhibitions' and I might even do or say things which I might later feel ashamed of to include the drinking.... but I never wanted anything on me that would so permanently scar me or mark me for the judgement of others. What a selfish, hypocritical, rebellious and disobedient to Christ, young woman I was for a while after I left home!

    On a more spiritual note: I had already read the passage in Deut. which cautioned against marking in the flesh.... and I had also read about the master who frees his slave after a period of servatude for a debt, but the slave wishes to not leave but be joined to the household of his master.... where upon the master takes the slave to the doorpost and nails a hole in his ear. When I read the passage about the markings in the flesh, because the Bible associated it with heathern practices, I straight way considered that this was not something to be done to my body because of God's viewpoint and not my practice of worship. The earring matter was less clear to me: How would piercing my ears give another ownership?

    It took me a while to ever consider getting my ears pierced, but the clamp on earrings, so popular when I was young as well as in my mother's generation, were torture for the sake of embellishment.... that I finally got the courage to take the needle..... and almost fainted when the second ear was pierced. lol. Funny thing about that..... I wore earrings routinely only about 5 years after that. I have a few small and inconspicuous nice pairs which I still wear occassionally..... but everytime I do.... worn so seldom .....I have to force open the old holes. lol

    Personally, I don't like the looks of tattoos, but I've come to not judge others who wear them. I do sort of feel sorry for so many young people who implusively or as a matter of peer pressure go out and get tattoos because I've heard more tales from older people about their regrets and I know for most of these young people it really wasn't thought carefully through. For many of them it will become a reminder in later life of caving into peer pressure just like for my own and earlier generations it was often a reminder of a time or times on the town getting drunk and/or being 'dared'.
     
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    Is that the one where the line goes "I like my women a little on the trashy side"?
     
  15. paul wassona

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    How about reading the bible where markings and cutting for the dead are in it?

    Are you saying that the two are made for the living? If that is what you say, then I guess you'll need to make a distinction between the living and the dead as in DEAD in tresspasses and sins verses those who are of the incorruptable seed.
     
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    Awww the talk about needling on a Tatoo thread!... that's funny!

    Just keep those needles from me!...
     
  17. Robert Snow

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    It is a stretch to apply a tattoo to a cutting for the dead.
     
  18. Theopolis

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    I'm too beautiful for any tattoo. To add a tattoo would only hide my natural God given beauty.
     
  19. pinoybaptist

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    some would say the tattoo will enhance it.
    tiring, isn't it ?:BangHead:
    makes you want to get out of this inconsistent world..:wavey:
     
  20. John Toppass

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    My thoughts would be No. I can not think of any intentional tattoo that would edify God. There may be the exception but I do not know of it.
     
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