Posted on 03/30/2018 9:25:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Those sounds like good reasons to ask. Thanks.
For health reasons, most likely.
Same reason for pork or other “unclean” animals.
I think you've stumbled upon Natural law.
Our spiritual bodies will have no marks or piercings.
Jesus’ body had all the marks and piercings we will ever need..........
Well Joyce, you’ve got one of those grotesque “faces” that I see so many women getting today so I suppose it wouldn’t matter if you got tattoo’s all over or wherever.......
Most Christians I know are more concerned about being in line with Christian culture than real Christian living.
While not all people with tattoos are low lifes, nearly all low lifes have tattoos.
What was it Hank Hill said about tattoos and piercings on the show King of the Hill? I think it was something like “the good thing about tattoos and piercings is you can tell a person’s wrong just by lookin’ at ‘em.”
I had no idea she was still around. Last I heard about her was when her head security man strangled his wife and kids in their sleep to be with a cocktail waitress. She gives me the creeps.
Seem to me for a religious person and leader, she should reconsider the 'why' of her position. God wont care whether she has a tattoo or not. God might care about why she made that decision.
I like her and Jim Robinson. Both had really rough starts in life. They overcame big time.
She is kind of sassy sometimes but she has a good heart. She has done good works.
Tis better to remain unadorned, and let the world think you a fool, than to get a tat, and remove all doubt.
I don’t place much importance on the entire argument (pro and con). I just believe they’re ugly. They look like bruises from a distance and look like juvenile artwork up close. They diminish my regard for such a person.
Of course tattooed people need a Savior as much as the rest of us.
Meyer is a charismatic. Charismatics, for as long as I can remember, abominated anything that smacked of “doctrine.” They said of those who held to certain doctrines of Christianity, their doctrines were “religious.” This is what Meyer means when she speaks against those who are “religious.”
They like to say their movement is all about the “experience” (i.e., Spirit baptism), as opposed to “doctrine.” Never mind the many references in the Bible to “doctrine,” for instance Titus 1:9 -
“Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound DOCTRINE, both to exhort and convince the gainsayers.”
All Meyers is doing is just including tattoos in with what charismatics call “religious,” or “doctrine.” “Religious” is a code word to them, you have to know what they mean by it.
While Jesus' substitutionary death, resurrection, and reconciliation provides escape from God's condemnation, it does not signify that spiritual maturity includes displeasing God to assert one's own preferences contrary to His Will.
Quoting from the great Bible commentator Albert Barnes, re his discussion of Leviticus 19:28 and tattooing, "Any voluntary disfigurement of the person was in itself an outrage upon God’s workmanship." That is, printing marks upon one's own flesh, or altering it by decorative cuttings (cosmetic surgery, lip/nose/ear perforations), says that the possessor of a body thinks they can improve upon the glory God imparted to it in His creation of it.
But Joyce Meyer, who simply denies that God's chosen gender for her predetermine the ways in which she should play out her life as a woman, not superseding her limitations when God has reserved the teaching ministry of the doctrines of His Word for men alone. In that she also defies the Will of The God.
This woman is a Deity-defier, and should not be accepting her definition of a holiness that contradicts God's.
WWJD.
So all tattooed Freepers are fools? Sanctimonious much?
How would we know?
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