Subject: TATTOOS....yea or nay?? |
Bible Note: 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 |