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Originally Posted by Tithesmeister
Brother EB the Bible speaks against tattooing your body if I understand correctly. So what do you do with new converts that have full sleeve tattoos?
I believe they are a new creature of in Christ. I don’t believe they should go get more tattoos but I don’t believe they should be condemned for the ones they already have. It is not like they are going to wash away in the baptismal tank.
What do you think?
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Leviticus is primarily speaking of the cutting of the flesh in worship.
1 Kings 18:28,
Jeremiah 16:6,
Jeremiah 41:5,
Jeremiah 47:5,
Jeremiah 48:37 shows that the Gentiles would mark themselves with ritual cuttings. The marks which they would eventually end up with wasn't Asian Tattoos which we have today. But scarification which was produced in mourning or worship of their false gods. Tattoos, I have full sleeves from shoulders to wrists. Would I get any more, no, do I have book chapter and verse for my convictions, kinda, but Leviticus isn't one. As my dear brother Esaias pointed out, that some have a bit of a selective buffet style approach to the law and the old testament. Which make the critical observer raise an eyebrow. You posted that Bible speaks against tattooing your body
if you understood the verse correctly? There you have it, a Christianity of mere opinion. The neophyte who is a critical thinker, observer, and all around questioner. Hears that, and says "what do you mean "if" you understand correctly?" I remember one joker who looked over at a brother, and said "what? is this your first day on the job?" They are the neophytes, they come seeking milk and eventually eating honey. Yet, we who have been at the job since 1974 have just our candy sticks which we are well versed in. Any other subject we end up saying "I know it is in there somewhere" Wow, well, tell you what, when you find it, give me a call.
Most of my time in church I have met people who got total revelation on what we call standards. Most movements around the globe got their standards by gravitating towards ultra modesty. It is those people are just safer when they are around more conservative types. But if they have the misfortune of being with the strippers for Jesus liberals, they will get their heads chopped off. The minute they said that JESUS told them to wear a long dress, that JESUS told them to not wear makeup, that JESUS told them to get off the internet or throw away the television. The liberal libertarian cries out "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!"
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