New Tattoos

[Jekyll]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Sherri,

Ashley's walk with God would put most UPC young people to shame and it's sad that most would look at her as being lost.

Originally Posted by Sherri

I agree with this to a certain extent. My daughter vaguely remembers being in UPC, but not much. My son doesn't even ever remember it and only knows of it through his cousins. They don't consider it their heritage; it is their parent's heritage. To them, UPC means nothing.

Their heritage is what we have taught them, which is primarily balance in all things. We teach them to live holy and pleasing unto God. I will obviously not always agree with their interpretation of what is right or wrong, but that is between them and their Lord. They are adults now. BUT, they are good young people who love God with all their hearts and I trust them to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling. They have seen us live a balanced lifestyle and know that we do not adhere to the "greasy grace" principles. My kids are some of the most REAL people in the world. There is no facade with them; you know exactly where they stand on all things and that I respect. I have seen too much of the other.

They would not tell you that smoking or drinking (in moderation), gambling, etc. will send you to hell, and neither would I. But we don't do it because we feel that those things would be weights and not good witnesses. We have taught them that you have to consider others, not just yourselves. As for the tattoos, they don't see anything Biblically wrong with them, and I have no arguments against them through the Word of God. I just personally don't like them.

Balance can be just another word for "failing to take a stand..."

This whole attitude, "Well, we did our best, and they are adults, now, and, we can only hope, and, we tried to show them a balance, and, so forth and so on..." yeeecccch!

So tatoos are kinda okay now...poor Larry Boy and the shelacking he got for tatoos and piercings.

Does anyone believe that what we do here in the physical realm is boundlessly connected to the spiritual world??? Billy Graham's dedication and efforts to push false doctrine would out pace many people in the UPC today...does HE get an A for effort and slide into heaven???

Give me a break...