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To: DouglasKC

Old Testament is the Law, New Testament is Grace
A friend of mine is in prison ministry, he is prohibited from bringing a Bible, he can comment on his tattoos if asked.
His tattoos share his walk with Christ and the plan of Salvation.
I know several surfers who have tattoos who use them for witnessing, the tattoos can visually show the plan of Salvation.
I know many people who use their tattoos for witnessing.
None of those are paganism.
Some people are tattoophobic.


26 posted on 11/01/2013 8:50:12 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains' obama's Americaas ord)
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To: svcw

I just think tattoos are ugly and stupid and yes, sinful

no phobia in that


27 posted on 11/01/2013 8:51:08 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: svcw

I think the real argument is that we are to be “separate from the world.”

The forbidding of those practices (tattoos, drinking blood, etc) were pagan or worldly rituals for which Israel was to be set apart.

Deuteronomy 14:1-2: “You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor 1shave the front of your head for the dead. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”

It is a fairly safe assumption that tattooing is still considering a worldly activity. While the Old Testament may be the law and the New Testament grace, the NT clearly states that Christians are to be in the world but not of it.

James 4:1-5: Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.


54 posted on 11/01/2013 9:06:17 AM PDT by thetallguy24
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