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1 | body piercings and why not | Lev 19:28 | jtsimsfamily | 220407 | ||
dear "stand in his grace", I don't understand why you think this passage forbids body peircing. I don't have any peircings, but I think they are perfectly fine. We all do stuff everyday that are not for the glory of God. Eat junk food, drink soda, where a shirt braging about where our last vacation was to, or Peircing Your Ears. I have not seen a women in my chruch yet that does not have her ears peirced. I am not about to tell this person not to go get a peircing. At my church the bass player has a pony tail (he's male), a women that helps out with the sunday school has tattoos on her neck, and the pastor plays the drums. We have racially mixed couples, mentally handy capped people, and folks like myself who have seen abuse through out our life as members. We do not judge, or turn away anyone that wishes to come and worship the lord in a good ol'baptist atmospere. I apologize for my grammer, spelling, or if I seem upset. I don't mean you, but people in my area are really quick to judge a person that has an abnormal appearence or if they don't fit there cookie cutter mode that they have created for their religon. Thank you for taking time to read my ramblings. | ||||||
2 | body piercings and why not | Lev 19:28 | Wild Olive Shoot | 220525 | ||
Dear jtsimsfamily, I don't recall claiming that the passage referenced forbids anything. I was simply asking the poster to whose glory did they think body piercing was aimed, or any of the multitude of things we do, like those you mentioned in your response for that matter. It seems we all come from different walks of life. We have all done things in our lives that weren't necessarily bringing glory to God but rather ourselves, and in some cases, arguably most, we never even pondered who was being glorified by the thing we were doing. Matthew 23:25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. "The main business of a Christian lies within, to get cleansed from the filthiness of the spirit. Corrupt affections and inclinations, the secret lusts that lurk in the soul, unseen and unobserved, these must first be mortified and subdued. Those sins must be conscientiously abstained from. which the eye of God only is a witness to, who searcheth the heart." - Matthew Henry Like some you mentioned, there is nothing wrong with them attending your church. God works change internally. What we have done externally to ourselves really doesn't matter once our hearts are renewed. The only purpose they may actually serve now is to simply remind us of where we may have been and from where God may have plucked us. I shave my head. Do I do that for the glory of God? No. I do it because I like it and think the look works for me. Does that make it wrong? My point was that we should be questioning what we do and evaluate just who it glorifies, us or God. After all our chief purpose for being here is in part, to glorify God, which will happen eventually whether we cooperate or not. Romans 11:36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. And sadly my friend, many of the things I do, do not bring glory to God. Stand in His grace, WOS |
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