Allen West Shows Off Fresh New Ink (Tats up arm)

National Review ^ | 9/8/14 | Andrew Johnson

[2nd amendment mama]

I am clean shaven. Of course times have changed and styles have changed. But that does mean we ignore good advice from the Bible.

Oh, so you're selective about which you obey and which you CHOOSE to ignore!

Got it! Ignore the part that says not to cut sideburns or beard but hate those with tattoos. Those are the traits of a hypocrite.

[amihow]

If a woman was tattooed by Nazis, it is true she did not choose it voluntarily and could not refuse it. Not opinion. Factual truth.

[P-Marlowe]

Maybe the log in your eye has so clouded your vision as to make you absolutely blind to your bigotry to those who do have “body art” so that you can’t see the wonderful human behind it.

[amihow]

Tats are trashy is matter of opinion. Bible forbids true.

[P-Marlowe]

They don’t call them tramp stamps for nothing.

[Louis Foxwell]

Only for Jews.
Christians are not bound by Mosaic law. Do you cut your hair? If so you are equally (with eating pork and shellfish, wearing tats and masturbating) in violation of Mosaic law.

[Louis Foxwell]

This is called a straw man. Extremism proves nothing.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Who said hate?

I know many people who have them including members of my own family. And I’m a HUGE fan of Col. West.

That doesn’t make me like them (tattooes) any more.

[2nd amendment mama]

So now you’re professional people who happen to have a tattoo with extremist gang member criminals? I’m done talking to you.

[2nd amendment mama]

Correction:

So now you’re comparing professional people who happen to have a tattoo with extremist gang member criminals? I’m done talking to you.

[trisham]

Very attractive.

[P-Marlowe]

How can you judge that beautiful creation of God to be some kind of extremist gang member criminal? Can't you see the wonderful human being behind that body art on his face? Are you some kind of bigot that you can judge a person's character by the color of his tats?

For all you know he is a very successful professional making 6 figures a year after taxes. He probably runs a very successful distribution operation and has dozens of dedicated employees that he supervises.

Take that log out of your eye. See the beauty behind the art.

[GeronL]

For all you know he is a very successful professional making 6 figures a year after taxes. He probably runs a very successful distribution operation and has dozens of dedicated employees that he supervises.

A drug lord....

[The Toll]

This thread is Hilarious.

[trisham]

I couldn’t agree more, P-Marlowe. People can sometimes be so negative. I blame it on Obama.

[amihow]

Christ came to fulfill the law not to abrogste. Some parts of old law still hold. Traditionslly Christianity uphel prohibiton against unecessaroly mutilating body withvtatoos etc.

[P-Marlowe]

If your body is the Temple of The Lord, why would you want to cover it with graffiti?

[trisham]

If your body is the Temple of The Lord, why would you want to cover it with graffiti?

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Exactly right.

"Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves. I am the LORD."

Leviticus 19:28

[P-Marlowe]

Regardless of the context of the Biblical prohibition on getting a tattoo, it is a clear prohibition having an immediate, direct and permanent effect on your body (which was created in the image of God).

We are reminded in scripture not to defile the Temple of God and we are also reminded that as Christians our bodies are the Temple of the Lord.

Pasting permanent graffiti on the Temple of the Lord is a defilement of that Temple in a much more permanent and obvious way that eating a bacon cheeseburger. This is not a “dietary” prohibition or a ceremonial prohibition such as the prohibition against cutting your hair one way or the other or occasionally pigging out on pig meat.

When you get a tattoo you are in effect saying to the world that your body is your own and not God's and that you are free to permanently defile it in any way you want.

When you combine the new testament verses which proclaim that your body is not yours to defile (that it was bought with a price by Christ) and that your body is now the Temple of the Lord, then pasting graffiti all over your body is certainly not something to shout from the rooftops as if God himself has approved your graffiti on his Temple. It basically says to the world either that you are proud of something other than the body God gave you as a Temple to him or you are just plain stupid and you don't care.

Right now getting a Tattoo is a worldly fad. But we are told that while we are “in” the world, we are not to be “of” the world. Nothing says you are “of” the world more than pasting permanent graffiti all over your body to say to the world “Hey, look at ME!”

[onedoug]

Very well put. Thanks.

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