Posted on 10/03/2007 1:52:26 PM PDT by Daffynition
How can it be interpreted any different? As I understand it for all of the last 2000 years Christians have rejected tattoos. Has scripture changed its meaning in the last few years?
Looks like she might be applying for a job with a sideshow.
Are all tattoo parlours reliable? They don’t strike me as being strong on hygiene. Is there a problem with infection with piercings like navel rings. Also mouth studs are know to cause considerable damage to teeth. I just don’t see the point in any of it. Perhaps infection can be controlled if you are careful but my main objection is Christian, God forbids it so that is that.
I’m not Christian, but in my life, I’ve known many who have and continue to get tattoos & piercings. So ‘all Christians’ is a broad brush and 2000 years, do you know for sure EVERYONE has rejected it?
Maybe it’s following the New Testament and reading the Old Testament in context. Maybe it’s just different understandings of the text.
Personally, I don’t think God minds tats and piercings one bit.
Here is an article from a Zambian web site warning of the spiritual dangers of tattoos/piercing. It is not Christian.
http://www.frontline.org.za/articles/bodypiercing.htm
The salon I go to is clean, very clean, and well lit. There is an RN as the manager, they have very good universal precautions and you watch them unwrap the needles in front of you. Same with the piercing shop— excellent hygiene and precautions.
As for navel rings, I’ve got one as well as 11 of my students/friends and other than the occaisional owie (as in eyelet trimmed sheets can snag!) none of us have had a moment’s trouble.
I’m not saying infections can’t happen, just that I’m at greater risk in my RL job being exposed to MRSA, VRE, Hep C and HIV than I am with tats and piercings.
Or getting Aspergillis from my chickens (which if they don’t stop hiding their eggs, will find their butts parked next to dumplings).
OK, but I’m not Zambian either.
Thank you though. :)
where have you been? there’s been a bunch of comments lately with guys saying “women shouldn’t vote” and pushing the whole “barefoot, preggers and in the kitchen” opions.
read the rest of the chapter and tell me how much of that you abide by.
incidently, its probably closer to 6000 years.
Why should I? "When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." Your opinion is just that, your opinion. And your opinions are like some passengers who believe that if you'll just "talk enough," the bus will finally go where YOU want it to. No dice. I just called out "my stop." ;-D
Scars are tattoos with better story lines.
LOL what is the tat/pit correlation?
I wonder if that could be the origin of the term, “Navel Gunfire.”
All the moral law is still in force, this is part of that law.
1Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Nasty! LOL!
ummm... “incidental” its closer to 2000 years, my reference was to Christians. I was not speaking on behalf of the Jewish people.
What the risk be if you got a tatto that said, “Please don not bight me?”
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