I just googled tattoo images and after being rather disturbed and bothered by what people have done to their bodies, I will go with number iii). To many satan driven and inspired tattoo's would have come out of that parlor. If you aren't separate from the world, you are part of it. Titus 2:12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. James 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. I won't beat around the bush Farouk, what you are advocating and suggesting is wrong and you are suckering (not all of us) Christians into going the way of the world. I was with my children at the pool a while ago, and from what I saw, not having a tattoo puts one in the minority. I am trying hard every day to be separate from the world, yet you throw an open invitation to walk in the ways of the world. Aside from personal opinions stated here and elsewhere, there has been ample enough scripture testifying to be separate from the world, etc. So why can you not just cease and desist with it? Do you really want to put God to the test? There is no better witness then saying to someone Jesus loves them, and then to act accordingly.
Has the whole thread become ungodly?
1Ti 1:3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
1Ti 1:4 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These
promote controversies rather than God’s work—which is by faith.
1Ti 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1Ti 1:6 Some have wandered away from these and turned to
meaningless talk.
1Ti 1:7 They want to be teachers of the law,
but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.
1Ti 1:8 We know that
the law is good if one uses it properly.
1Ti 1:9 We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
1Ti 1:10 for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
1Ti 1:11 that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
