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1 | TATTOOS....yea or nay?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Montag | 73846 | ||
EdB i'm fully prepared to be responsible before God for any opinion i have expressed on this subject. i'm not worried since my position is not contrary to the Nature of Almighty God. since you brought the Leviticus passage back up let me just ask you... do you believe the Law of God will save you from your sins? according to Paul the Apostle it has NO power to justify anyone, (Rom 3:19-20) 19. Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; 20. because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin. would you say that someone who is not circumsized cannot be a Christian? of course not because the mere act of circumsism does nothing to justify an individual. Paul addressed this in the Epistle to the Galatians when the Judeaizers were trying to apply the Law to gentiles that wanted to become Christians.... (he was rather passionate in his defense of his position.) in the same way, if you try to attach ANY part of the Law to salvation then you have already nulified the work Christ accomplished on the Cross of Calvary. that is something that i, personally, would like to stay FAR away from. as far as the permanent disfiguration of what God originally created, how many people with surgical scars are permanently "disfigured" in a similar way. whether it was self-inflicted or not has no bearing since you are concerned with what God "intended" us to look like. finally, i feel that by living in the liberties that Christ has given us i am honoring God in a very real and personal way. there is no "either/or" with liberty and honor, they mesh beautifully together. (Gal 5:1) It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. Freed by Christ, Montag |
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2 | TATTOOS....yea or nay?? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 73866 | ||
Montag, You are right that we are freed by Christ from the law but He teach us to observe things that more than the law and to be responsible not just because someone will stone us to death if we dont observe the law but because we love God. If you will agree in any commandments of Christ that given to us we still observe the law with a deep meaning. Under the it is a sin to kill, that is why theres a commandments of "thou shalt not kill" but in the commandments of Christ: Mt 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. whosoever called his brother raca is in danger of the council. Here Christ clearly show that you dont have to kill to have sinned, the example clearly show that even before the root or the cause of killing or before the actual killing Christ warn us already. That is how the commandments of Christ so delicate. EdB was right we are not given opprotunity to break the law, because it still exist maybe in the different implementation. I dont think for having tatoo you can glorified Christ, He had speak many thing in the new testament how we can Glorified God and I am very sure that tatoo is not including in it. God bless, |
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3 | TATTOOS....yea or nay?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Montag | 73958 | ||
jlpangilinan, i whole-heartedly agree that the commands of Christ are crucial for us to obey and if Christ had given me a command NOT to get a tattoo i wouldn't... we both know, though, that he made no such command. answering this statement... "I dont think for having tatoo you can glorified Christ, He had speak many thing in the new testament how we can Glorified God and I am very sure that tatoo is not including in it." how are you so sure tattoos cannot be included in glorifying God? in this "list" of ways we can glorify Christ did He include glorifying Him on an internet message board? did He include glorifying Him while working at your job? did he include glorifying Him while playing sports? did he include glorifying Him while enjoying time with your family? i think we can both agree that you are able to glorify God with any of the activities listed above but they are not specifically named as "approved" ways to glorify God. in the same way, tattoos can be used to glorify God. one final question, if getting a tattoo that says JESUS IS LORD! is not glorifying to God then who is it glorifying? Montag |
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4 | TATTOOS....yea or nay?? | Bible general Archive 1 | jlpangilinan | 74039 | ||
Montag, Quote "how are you so sure tattoos cannot be included in glorifying God?" I am sure that it is not included, because in the first place it is prohibited in the old testament, and there is no teaching of Christ stated that it is ok now to have tatto and it can glorified God. When crist freed us from law it is not meant that all of teaching in the old testament was erase or change. Honor your parents is included in the teaching of law but it indeed existing in the commandsments of Christ. If you want to love God with all your strenght soul mind and might I dont think you need tatoo to observe this, while tatoo is prohibited of the law I dont think Christ will ok on it, and besides there were no followers of Christ that done tatoo in his/her body just to glorified Christ. If having tatoo is necessary I am sure the apostle done it. If you want to love your neighboor as you love your self, I dont think tatoo is necessary, here in the Philippines if you have tatto you lost the opportunity to donate blood, the Hospitals refuse to received donation from the person that has tatoo. In this perspective you also loose the opportunity ti give blood if someone needs you. 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Your body is owned by God, did He ask you to have some tatoo to glorified Him? If you think tatoo is necessary for gloryfying God that is your decision but scriptures will not supported that. If God forbid tatoo, I am sure He didnt like it, and all God's deslike it is the favorite of the enemy. God bless, |
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