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Originally Posted by diakonos
Pre or post conversion?
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Good question. The prohibition against tattooing is not a prohibition against HAVING them. A person with tattoos who then becomes a Christian should not be bothered by their brethren about tattoos. And even if a Christian did get a tattoo (almost certainly out of ignorance concerning the divine prohibition) there is such a thing as repentance and moving on.
The whole issue applies primarily to the person
contemplating getting a tattoo, and
secondarily to the person who got one and needs to acknowledge that doing so was a transgression of God's law.
It's not like we don't have bigger fish to fry...
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