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.
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.
This false prophetess needs to read the Bible. Leviticus 19:28 is still in effect. (Hebrews 9 indicates which ordinances are no longer in effect.)
The only one who may mark our bodies is the Lord himself. The beast will mark those who swear fealty to him and they will earn damnation in so doing.
Jesus often tells us we should keep his commandments. And Paul also echoes this.
Doing something just to make a group of people angry is hardly Christian, IMHO. That makes her a bit of a smart alec and is hardly acting in love.
How very Christian in her motivation.
To me tatoos are not like clothes, jewelry or makeup, they are permanent physical alterations of the body. That is like “adding” to the body, and to me THAT is not respecting of G-d who gave you that body. No, that is not out of scripture; it’s out my thinking derived from my reading and experience.
Joyce Meyer Ministries: https://bereanresearch.org/word-of-faith-false-teacher-joyce-meyers-shocking-doctrine-and-heresy/; http://atruechurch.info/joycemeyer.html; I’m just saying what others are saying about her. If you’re in conflict about it yell at them not me.
It's true, we are NOT under the Law. But does that give us the right to sin? God forbid! The principle behind the declaration in Leviticus to not tattoo yourself comes from The devil "marks" his own. God marks His by the Holy Spirit. If you take the mark of the Beast, you will die a horrible death and go to Hell. We have been marked by the Holy Spirit, or "sealed". A tattoo is a mark of vanity, pride in oneself, and rebellion. I love Joyce, but she just showed you her rebellious side. You don't get a tattoo to show your parents, to show your friends, to show fellow church members how you can't be told what to do. If it offends someone, you have just become a stumbling block to their walk.
How is that love for them? God made me the way He wants me to look. I take care of it the best I can, but if I get tatted up, I'm saying LOOK AT ME!
To look for the meaning of Leviticus telling us God is against tattoo's, the pagan people that worshiped the dead, carried on seances, performed witchcraft, and cast spells, got tattoo's. Look up the Rephaim. They were giants created by demons mating with women and corrupting the seed of God. God Flooded the earth to rid the earth of them. They came back after the Flood with Nimrod being the first. The Rephaim were referred to in Rabbinic writings as the "walking dead". They were giants that people worshiped as gods. People marked themselves to show their allegiance to them.
Some here say, well, then stop eating bacon or some other OT "law" that we all break today. If you have tattoo's when you are saved, that person died and a new creature has arisen from the grave. Why would you get a new tattoo knowing this? You think it's cool? You want more attention? You are proud, rebellious, not surrendered completely to God.
Calling Jesus "Lord" is missed by many today because we don't have "lords" today. Back in the day, a "Lord" would say "off with his head" and you were dead before the last word was said. The Lord could take your wife before you got her on your own wedding night. If you say Jesus is Lord, then get ready to give Him everything, including your skin. Anything less than that is called "lukewarm" and God will vomit you out. People will say "Lord Lord didn't we prophesy and cast out demons in your name?" and He will say He never knew you. These are "church members", otherwise they wouldn't be using the name of Jesus to cast out demons. Mat 25 speaks of "virgins". That's church members, yet the Bridegroom says He never knew them. We MUST study the Word of God to know what is being said. Don't think a quick once over is enough. Certainly don't get your religion from Youtube or commenters like me. Your whole future is at stake. Too many allow others to dictate their fate because they "agree" with what someone says. The Bible is true and accurate no matter if you agree with it or not. If I got a tattoo with the name of Jesus written in 10 inch letters on my chest, am I wanting people to look at me,....or Jesus. I want people to think I'm a real freak for Jesus to give His name that much real estate on my body. It has to do with me, and not Him.