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Is Being Against Tatoos the Law?
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Deborah13
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I don't know what she thinks. She has been at church all morning. I just read this article and explanation of the Law and the Isaiah scripture a little while ago. I didn't even know it was there, read right over it!
So I'll have to discuss it with her.
jasoncran
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that's fine you picked karate jews but well paul wasn't a kariate jew convert he quotes the Talmud a few times, and so does peter.
the names of the men who resisted moses isn't found in the tanach but in the oral traditions. peters a day is a thousand years is also found in the Talmud.
the names of the men who resisted moses isn't found in the tanach but in the oral traditions. peters a day is a thousand years is also found in the Talmud.
OhFarouk
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Deborah13
It's a very interesting point, anyway.
Doesn't necessarily prove one way or another whether a particular individual 'ought to' get tattooed, of course.
Even leaving aside the dispensational aspect of whether the New Testament believer is really under the Old Testament law in any case, quite a few Christians (both men and women; women now exercise tattoo equality don't they?) would probably feel just a bit more open to considering getting a faith based design if in fact there's evidence that doing so wouldn't be against the Old Testament anyhow.
Blessings.
Deborah13
Member
So my last post was directed at the Law about tattooing from a Jewish perspective and interpretation. This one is a quote from the Matthew Henry Commentary.
"4. The rites and ceremonies by which they expressed their sorrow at their funerals must not be imitated, Lev. 19:28. They must not make cuts or prints in their flesh for the dead; for the heathen did so to pacify the infernal deities they dreamt of, and to render them propitious to their deceased friends. Christ by his sufferings has altered the property of death, and made it a true friend to every true Israelite; and now, as there needs nothing to make death propitious to us (for, if God be so, death is so of course), so we sorrow not as those that have no hope. Those whom the God of Israel had set apart for himself must not receive the image and superscription of these dunghill deities." One can find his commentary at www.biblegateway.com
"4. The rites and ceremonies by which they expressed their sorrow at their funerals must not be imitated, Lev. 19:28. They must not make cuts or prints in their flesh for the dead; for the heathen did so to pacify the infernal deities they dreamt of, and to render them propitious to their deceased friends. Christ by his sufferings has altered the property of death, and made it a true friend to every true Israelite; and now, as there needs nothing to make death propitious to us (for, if God be so, death is so of course), so we sorrow not as those that have no hope. Those whom the God of Israel had set apart for himself must not receive the image and superscription of these dunghill deities." One can find his commentary at www.biblegateway.com
Deborah13
Member
500 posts later and we will still be saying, "You're doing it again."
Okay, got it. Thanks for the conversation(s).
Are you baling out now?
I post what the only Jewish thought that I could find on this scripture says. Then I post what a well accept Christian commentator says about it.
I thought you wanted to discuss the OP about Law, legalism or legit?
Bailing out? Only for the short time. You should see the weather we're having and my motorcycle is just a moment away. Can't you hear it calling? If you were close, I'd ask ya to come with...
"Get yer motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. Lookin' fer adventure and what ever comes our way..."
:
PS. The pastor gave a precious sermon today. It was about Grace. He said, "Unmerited" but I heard "Inherited", and my spirit soared. What a precious gift we have to be able to share in the inheritance of the Only Worthy. Can you spell flabberghasted? Neither can I.
"Get yer motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. Lookin' fer adventure and what ever comes our way..."
:PS. The pastor gave a precious sermon today. It was about Grace. He said, "Unmerited" but I heard "Inherited", and my spirit soared. What a precious gift we have to be able to share in the inheritance of the Only Worthy. Can you spell flabberghasted? Neither can I.
Deborah13
Member
Bailing out? Only for the short time. You should see the weather we're having and my motorcycle is just a moment away. Can't you hear it calling? If you were close, I'd ask ya to come with...
"Get yer motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. Lookin' fer adventure and what ever comes our way..."
PS. The pastor gave a precious sermon today. It was about Grace. He said, "Unmerited" but I heard "Inherited", and my spirit soared. What a precious gift we have to be able to share in the inheritance of the Only Worthy. Can you spell flabberghasted? Neither can I.
Oh now I am so envious....... have a great time!!
OhFarouk
Member
...which kind of begs the question: what does any of this have to do with faith based tattoo designs (e.g., Christian fish sign <>< on a wrist, etc.)?
Tentative answer: Well, exactly.
Blessings.
OhFarouk
Member
Of course, I realize that not every lady in biker leathers would get a tattoo. (I think you said you would never.)
Blessings.
Deborah13
Member
Hmm....well I never rode enough to go to the expense of leathers. I suppose I could wear my horseback riding chaps.
No I wouldn't get a tat. never even thought about tats before these threads.
OhFarouk
Member
I guess you realize now that a lot of Christians - including Christian women - have them.
Do you find these discussions about the subject helpful and informative?
Blessings.
Deborah13
Member
Sometimes I find the responses interesting.
OhFarouk
Member
Yes, I'm sure; and I guess some ideas and even misconceptions may be based on less than accurate exegetical assumptions.
Blessings.
OhFarouk
Member
PS: Anyway I realize also that she might not have given you her reasons for her tattoo interest; so maybe it's even a bit unfair of me to ask you, in any case. Blessings.
Deborah13
Member
I think that many of the things in the OT are hard to put together. I was reading a discussion questioning whether Moses wife Zipporah was the same women called the Ethiopian. The history is spread out through several books. There are even places where certain laws were different later on.
We all just have to try to be as honest in our interpretations as we can be.