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Is the yoke of not having a tattoo so difficult to bear? I don't know. It doesn't seem like one of those things that you might 'accidentally' do, or stumble into. I'm not trying to be flippant, like, I just don't see that it's a heavy burden for the law to place on us, not getting tattoos...

I'll leave you good ladies and gentleman to slug it out here. :) I'd love to continue in the discussion, but I really have a lot on my plate at the moment with my studies! One point before I go though... play nicely, okay? I know I'm the chief of sinners here, but... no sarcasm, please...

As we all know, the law of the Old Testament applies to us. Some of it applies in a literal way, some of it applies in a moral way, but it still applies all the same. Nothing is excised or thrown away. We know that it's God's will that we don't immolate our children, or lie with animals or...

Forgive me, my friends, but I don't there's any point in me discussing this further, and trying to argue 'my' case. Clearly we have entirely different interpretations of God's Word, and all the scriptures I could quote could be interpreted by you in a different way. I can only state the...

Quite so, 1 John 3 v 2 speaks of the rapture, when we will see the Lord as He is, when we "shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4 v 17). I don't see that it is... the rapture is not the time in which the glory of the Lord will...

There is to be a rapture, before the second coming. Scripture is quite clear and simple about this. "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the...

Ah hah, but I do. :yes I am what some people call 'Plymouth Brethren', though we don't identify ourselves by any name. The brethren your friend works for in Yorkshire are mostly likely 'Taylor-Hales' brethren, or what we call 'Jimites'. They followed the leadership of Jim Taylor Jr, and are...

If you have definite view-point on tattoos and piercings, I think you might want to pop over to this thread: http://www.christianforums.net/showthread.php?t=29798&page=1 Bit of a debate going on there!

I think secular music is, at best, profitless, and at worst, harmful. I listen to secular music. I love foreign language music, and about 50% of my collection isn't in English. I know it doesn't profit much, but sometimes I enjoy just relaxing and listening to the sound of it. There's some...

Ahh, the Eriksson twins. Aye, that was a really bizarre case. They even ran a TV show on the BBC about it. I watched it online, a long time after it was first aired, it's quite extraordinary. At the time, a friend actually said to them that it looked like they were demon possessed.

That's one of my major issues with it too, Tina. These places don't look like establishments that a Christian should enter, never mind give money to. I think that Josh Brown, the lead singer of Christian band 'Day of Fire' is also a tattoo artist. I thought I heard somewhere that he'll...

I was brought up in a Christian home, and from a very young age (literally since I was a few weeks old), I was brought along by my parents - who both came from 'brethren' families - to the 'brethren' meeting in my local town. I grew up amongst the brethren and continued to attend the meetings...

What's been said is very helpful, but there is just one thing that concerns me: in Christianity, there's one way, the way of the Lord. Therefore, it must be either wrong to have tattoos on your body, or it must be acceptable to God. There doesn't seem to be any consensus here, so someone...

Thank you very much, woodlandapple! We need your prayers. We're in love, but we can't be together yet, because God is telling us to wait. Also, my family have given me a lot of grief over it because she's black and I'm white...

The Wikipedia entry for fornication agrees with highlife's definition. Beyond that, as a student of Greek you'll know better than me, woodlandapple!

Pardonez vous? :lol If you mean my desktop background, it ain't Rivendell. :-) It's actually an artists impression based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video-game trilogy which is set in the irradiated zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Cheery! :biglol Now that I look at it, it does...

Aye, farouk, it's just one of those things. I'd rather err on the side of caution. Plus, I know for a fact that my friends and family wouldn't be very happy if I got a tattoo or a piercing, so even on that basis, I'd rather not. There's some very good points about scripture been brought up...

Here be my messy wee desktop. :-)

Quite so, although - and I don't intend to be crude or disrespectful - sleeping with someone to whom you aren't married is just a financial-transaction's-width away from sleeping with a prostitute. The distinction isn't very marked, in some ways...

Ahh, that's true, eh? :lol It's a funny old world. I'm a waste manager, so, give me a waste management quiz and I'll... actually, don't give me a waste management quiz, I'll probably fail at that too! Then I'd have to banish myself to the top of a mountain and live as a hermit for the rest of...