What do Born Again Believers call themselves?

[232 Ben Yissachar]

John 3:10
YESHUA answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

What Nicodemus should have known, the very passages of scripture that YESHUA was referencing when He said, Except a man be born of water and The Spirit he can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. John 3:5

Isaiah 44
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

5 One shall say, I am YHWH's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto YHWH, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of The household of God;

Luke 1:33
He shall reign over The House of Jacob Forever

Galatians 3:29
And if you be Messiah's Then your are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the Promise.

Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have Chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend.

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Messiah, being aliens from the Commonwealth-(Citizenship) of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the World.

The New Covenant was made for Israel only, there isn't a covenant with gentiles in all of the Bible or with a people that surname themselves "christians".

If a person is born again, then they have become a Citizen of the House of Jacob.

YESHUA was not sent, except unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

Savage wolves came in just as Paul said that they would after his departure, and drew disciples after themselves.

This Prophecy by Paul is still being fulfilled by the teachers of all the denominations .

There are twelve gates into the New Jerusalem and each gate is named for a Tribe of Israel

There isn't a RCC gate or a gate for any of her protesting daughters.

The only question I have now, How will the "christians" here try to doublethink their way out of not believing what Is so Plainly written.

How they'll seek to please men, their traditions over what is Written.

 

[Hopeful 2]

John 3:10
YESHUA answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

What Nicodemus should have known, the very passages of scripture that YESHUA was referencing when He said, Except a man be born of water and The Spirit he can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. John 3:5

Isaiah 44
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

5 One shall say, I am YHWH's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto YHWH, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of The household of God;

Luke 1:33
He shall reign over The House of Jacob Forever

Galatians 3:29
And if you be Messiah's Then your are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the Promise.

Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have Chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend.

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Messiah, being aliens from the Commonwealth-(Citizenship) of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the World.

The New Covenant was made for Israel only, there isn't a covenant with gentiles in all of the Bible or with a people that surname themselves "christians".

If a person is born again, then they have become a Citizen of the House of Jacob.

YESHUA was not sent, except unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

Jesus said..."And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." (John 10:16)

Savage wolves came in just as Paul said that they would after his departure, and drew disciples after themselves.

This Prophecy by Paul is still being fulfilled by the teachers of all the denominations of christendumb.

There are twelve gates into the New Jerusalem and each gate is named for a Tribe of Israel

There isn't a RCC gate or a gate for any of her protesting daughters.

The only question I have now, How will the "christians" here try to doublethink their way out of not believing what Is so Plainly written.

How they'll seek to please men, their traditions over what is Written.

We call ourselves Christians, with a capital C.
We are born of God, so have no need for tribal monikers.

 

[232 Ben Yissachar]

Jesus said..."And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." (John 10:16)

We call ourselves Christians, with a capital C.
We are born of God, so have no need for tribal monikers.

YESHUA layed down His Life for Two Folds and said that is why The Father Loved Him

Isaiah 53:10
Yet It pleased YHWH to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of YHWH shall prosper in His hand.


John 10:15 As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 And other sheep-(The House of Israel) I have, which are not of this fold:-(The House of Judah) them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be One Fold, and One Shepherd.

17 Therefore doth My Father Love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.

Ezekiel 37:9 Say unto them, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them One Stick, and they shall be One in Mine hand.

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

21 And say unto them, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

22 And I will make them One Nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and One King shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

When a Non-Jew becomes a Believer, they are grafted into the House of Israel

YESHUA came unto His Own, The House of Judah, the Other Sheep are the House of Israel, Together they are the House of Jacob.

One Shepherd - One Fold

I re-affirm that there isn't a covenant with any people besides Israel in the Scripture. Show Me

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[Hopeful 2]

YESHUA layed down His Life for Two Folds and said that is why The Father Loved Him

Isaiah 53:10
Yet It pleased YHWH to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of YHWH shall prosper in His hand.


John 10:15 As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 And other sheep-(The House of Israel) I have, which are not of this fold:-(The House of Judah) them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be One Fold, and One Shepherd.

17 Therefore doth My Father Love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.

Ezekiel 37:9 Say unto them, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them One Stick, and they shall be One in Mine hand.

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

21 And say unto them, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

22 And I will make them One Nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and One King shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

When a Non-Jew becomes a Believer, they are grafted into the House of Israel

YESHUA came unto His Own, The House of Judah, the Other Sheep are the House of Israel, Together they are the House of Jacob.

One Shepherd - One Fold

A re-affirm, there isn't a covenant with any people besides Israel in the Scripture.

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As Christians have been baptized into Christ, it could be said that we are of His tribe...Judah.

 

[RedPill]

From the OP:

What do Born Again Believers call themselves?

Christ never called himself a Christian, Christ never called his followers Christians. The apostles never called each other Christians.

The disciples called each other, "brethren", "disciples", "apostles", "servants", "believers", "followers", "the faithful", "the elect", "the called", and "saints." We can also identify ourselves as "bondservants" of Christ.

 

[232 Ben Yissachar]

Galatians 6:16
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and Mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Paul teaches the believers at Corinth, who were formerly gentiles without any hope, that they were to consider the children of Israel that came out of Egypt as their fathers, just as Paul considered them his fathers. "Our fathers"

1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

For those Accounted Worthy to Escape and stand in the wilderness Before The Son of Man

Ezekiel 20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you Face to face.

36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith Adonai YHWH.

Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself.

Revelation 12:14
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Jeremiah 30:7
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Jeremiah 16:14
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that it shall no more be said, YHWH liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

15 But, YHWH liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

Two Wings of a Great Eagle

Isaiah 4:5 And YHWH will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

​	Exodus 13:21 And YHWH went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Remember Lot's Wife

 

[Whatever]

16 And other sheep-(The House of Israel) I have, which are not of this fold:-(The House of Judah) them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be One Fold, and One Shepherd.

That might be your Messianic Jewish interpretation, but I don't buy it.

And other sheep I have (Gentiles) which are not of this (Jewish) fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation

Who is the "both" there that are now made into one? 1. Gentiles and 2. the commonwealth of Israel (or Jews.)

Eph 2:18 For through Him we both (1. Gentiles and 2. Jews) have access by one Spirit to the Father.

 

[232 Ben Yissachar]

That might be your Messianic Jewish interpretation, but I don't buy it.

And other sheep I have (Gentiles) which are not of this (Jewish) fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Eph 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation

Who is the "both" there that are now made into one? 1. Gentiles and 2. the commonwealth of Israel (or Jews.)

Eph 2:18 For through Him we both (1. Gentiles and 2. Jews) have access by one Spirit to the Father.

When the 144,000 are sealed in Revelation Chapter 7 from 12 of the tribes of Israel, 12,000 are Jews, 132,000 are not Jews. Where will they come from? A question no christian can answer.

One of the prayers that Jews pray everyday at the Kotel is for the lost tribes to return, Jews know they are not All 12 tribes.

Yet Christians are always saying 144,000 Jewish Evangelist, those that say this, are they capable of comprehending the text? Apparently not, they are either prevented or parrots repeating what they have heard their teachers say to them over and over, because the text is Ultra-Clear

12,000 are Jews, 132,000 are not Jews

 

[Hopeful 2]

When the 144,000 are sealed in Revelation Chapter 7 from 12 of the tribes of Israel, 12,000 are Jews, 132,000 are not Jews. Where will they come from? A question no Christian can answer.

You should reread that verse, as it says 12.000 from each tribe will be 'sealed'.

One of the prayers that Jews pray everyday at the Kotel is for the lost tribes to return, Jews know they are not All 12 tribes.
Yet Christians are always saying 144,000 Jewish Evangelist

I have never heard of that.

, those that say this, are they capable of comprehending the text? Apparently not, they are either prevented or parrots repeating what they have heard their teachers say to them over and over, because the text is Ultra-Clear

12,000 are Jews, 132,000 are not Jews

It is written..."And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel." (Rev 7:4)

 

[232 Ben Yissachar]

Revelation 11:15
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Adonai, and of His Messiah; and Adonai YHWH shall reign for ever and ever

The Saviours-Deliverers prophesied to come right before the kingdoms of this world becomes YESHUA's are the 144,000 that will be sealed in order to lead the Assemblies out of all the nations where the children of Israel have been scattered.

Obadiah 1:21
And Saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be YHWH's.

Revelation 14:1
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father's name written in their foreheads.

Isaiah 4:5
And YHWH will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and upon her Assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

In the first Exodus out of Egypt there was One Assembly, This verse says that there will be AssemblieS that will be protected just like the children of Israel were by a cloud by day and a fire by night for a Chuppah-A canopy for His Bride.

The 144,000 Saviors will be the leaders of the Assemblies of Zion, just as Moses and Aaron were the leaders that YHWH chose to lead the Assembly when the children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt.

Until all the assemblies are gathered to the place prepared for them to keep them from the face of the serpent. Revelation 12:14

2 of the 144,000 will be the leaders for each Assembly = 72,000 Assemblies in all.

Ecclesiastes 3:15
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

Micah 7:15
According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

Hosea 2:14
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor-(Trouble) for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Revelation 12:14
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Ezekiel 20:35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Bad news for pre-tribbers that are saying that the evil will not overtake or go before them, they will not be found to be worthy of Escape and be kept out of the hour of Trial and will have to die as Martyrs to prove their faith.

Amos 9:10
All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Psalms 102:16
When YHWH shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory.

Titus 2:13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour YESHUA Mashiach;

YESHUA Is not returning until Zion is Built = The 12 Tribes United under 1 King

What do christians do with these verses when they read them, don't they see that these verses have never been fulfilled and will be in the near future.

Why christians can not understand YAH's Plan to deliver His people when it is so plainly laid out is a SMH Mystery to me.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

From the OP:

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Christ never called himself a Christian, Christ never called his followers Christians. The apostles never called each other Christians.

The disciples called each other, "brethren", "disciples", "apostles", "servants", "believers", "followers", "the faithful", "the elect", "the called", and "saints." We can also identify ourselves as "bondservants" of Christ.

The Bible tells us to not be ashamed, but to glorify God for bearing that name.

1 Peter 4:16
16But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.e

 

[Whatever]

The Bible tells us to not be ashamed, but to glorify God for bearing that name.

-ian is simply a suffix connecting to what came before = Christ-ian = a follower of Christ.

That is more explanatory than "brethren", "disciples", "apostles", "servants", "believers", "followers", "the faithful", "the elect", "the called", and "saints

 

[Tenchi]

Galatians 3:27-28
27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:1-3
1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Ephesians 5:23-27
23 ...Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
24 ...the church is subject to Christ...
25 ....Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

Colossians 1:17-18
17 And he [Christ] is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he [Christ] is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

I am not an Israelite; I am a born-again child of God (John 3:3), a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17), a priest, king and saint of God (Revelation 1:6; Romans 1:7), seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6), dead to sin and alive unto God (Romans 6:11), united with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection and in him given new life so that I am a new creature in him (Romans 6:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:17), an adopted, sanctified, justified, cleansed and forgiven member of the Body of Christ, the Church (Romans 8:15; 1 Corinthians 1:30). This is who I am, not a member of "the house of Jacob," deriving my identity from a nation that proved, time and again, to be disloyal and disobedient to God, often depraved and deserving of wrathful punishment from Him.

I am living under a New Covenant, interacting with God within a "new and living way" (Hebrews 10:16-22) made in and through Jesus Christ, not Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. I am not bound under the Mosaic Laws of ceremony and separation; I can be a clean-shaven man, and eat bacon, and get a tattoo, and wear mixed fabrics because I am separated from the World, my own flesh and the devil by the sanctifying life and work of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, within me, not the rules and regulations of OT Israel (1 Corinthians 1:2; Titus 3:5; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Romans 8:13, etc.).

 

[JLB]

John 3:10
YESHUA answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

What Nicodemus should have known, the very passages of scripture that YESHUA was referencing when He said, Except a man be born of water and The Spirit he can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. John 3:5

Isaiah 44
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

5 One shall say, I am YHWH's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto YHWH, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of The household of God;

Luke 1:33
He shall reign over The House of Jacob Forever

Galatians 3:29
And if you be Messiah's Then your are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the Promise.

Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have Chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend.

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Messiah, being aliens from the Commonwealth-(Citizenship) of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the World.

The New Covenant was made for Israel only, there isn't a covenant with gentiles in all of the Bible or with a people that surname themselves "christians".

If a person is born again, then they have become a Citizen of the House of Jacob.

YESHUA was not sent, except unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

Savage wolves came in just as Paul said that they would after his departure, and drew disciples after themselves.

This Prophecy by Paul is still being fulfilled by the teachers of all the denominations of christendumb.

There are twelve gates into the New Jerusalem and each gate is named for a Tribe of Israel

There isn't a RCC gate or a gate for any of her protesting daughters.

The only question I have now, How will the "christians" here try to doublethink their way out of not believing what Is so Plainly written.

How they'll seek to please men, their traditions over what is Written.

Those who are born again are called Christians; followers of Jesus Christ.


Only those who are of faith are children of Abraham.


Do you understand who made covenant with Abraham?


Do you understand Abraham was a Gentile?


I will make you a great nation; (goy)
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 12:2-3

 

[Whatever]

I can be a clean-shaven man, and eat bacon, and get a tattoo, and wear mixed fabrics because I am separated from the World

To me getting a tattoo is being part of the world. It is a fleshly lust. It would be like drawing graffiti on a wall of the temple.

 

[RedPill]

-ian is simply a suffix connecting to what came before = Christ-ian = a follower of Christ.

Rather, it's a declension - a step down - from what a follower of Christ is. It's a comfortable, politically-correct label we us in public when we are afraid to witness boldly, and when we don't want to "offend" anyone. It's a label used by those of the world and thus is not of Christ.

To me getting a tattoo is being part of the world. It is a fleshly lust. It would be like drawing graffiti on a wall of the temple.

The tattoo comment may seem a bit out there. But know this: a tat is a bloodletting ritual. Period. And we know what spirit is behind bloodletting rituals. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Lev. 19:28

 

[Tenchi]

To me getting a tattoo is being part of the world. It is a fleshly lust. It would be like drawing graffiti on a wall of the temple.

Uh huh.

To each, their own.

The World also wears clothing, and eats food, and drives vehicles, and works at jobs, etc. Are these things, then, worldly lusts of the flesh? I'm guessing you'd say not. On what grounds, then, are tattoos "of the world" in a way these other things aren't? And what makes a tattoo a "fleshly lust"? Very strange...

 

[Tenchi]

The tattoo comment may seem a bit out there. But know this: a tat is a bloodletting ritual. Period. And we know what spirit is behind bloodletting rituals. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Lev. 19:28

You might want to familiarize yourself with the Genetic Fallacy. Though, you write here in a way that makes me suspect not even logic will change your view on the "bloodletting ritual" that you think is tattooing. Oh, and Christians are not subject to the various laws of separation under which the OT Israelites lived. Also, the verse from Leviticus doesn't say anything about a "spirit behind bloodletting, or that tattooing has such a connection. Why are you going beyond the statement of the verse?

 

[Whatever]

The World also wears clothing, and eats food, and drives vehicles, and works at jobs, etc. Are these things, then, worldly lusts of the flesh? I'm guessing you'd say not. On what grounds, then, are tattoos "of the world" in a way these other things aren't? And what makes a tattoo a "fleshly lust"? Very strange...

I know the priests in the temple wore clothes and ate food and worked at their job. They would have driven cars if there had them back there.

When I say worldly, I am not talking about normal things people in the world do. I'm talking about ungodly things people do.
James 3:15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

I'm talking about thing we do to look or make people think we are cool. Like Mr. T with all his gold junk he wore. Like a lot of celebrities now who are having stuff done to their teeth. The Hells Angels stood out because of their tattoo's.

3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good.

Everybody cuts their hair. But the kid who goes into the barber shop and tells the barber to make my hair so I look like the Fonzy on Happy Days, is being vain - Excessive pride in one's appearance: Antonyms: humility

I'm not saying that if you already have tattoos you have to get rid of them. But for a person who is already a Christian and wants to do everything to the glory of God, I can't see him lusting to get a tattoo. Self-control and humility are a fruit of the Spirit. I also can't see a Christian man getting one to please his wife or kids.

Mat 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

 

[Tenchi]

I know the priests in the temple wore clothes and ate food and worked at their job. They would have driven cars if there had them back there.

When I say worldly, I am not talking about normal things people in the world do. I'm talking about ungodly things people do.
James 3:15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

I'm talking about thing we do to look or make people think we are cool. Like Mr. T with all his gold junk he wore. Like a lot of celebrities now who are having stuff done to their teeth. The Hells Angels stood out because of their tattoo's.

3 John 1:11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good.

Everybody cuts their hair. But the kid who goes into the barber shop and tells the barber to make my hair so I look like the Fonzy on Happy Days, is being vain - Excessive pride in one's appearance: Antonyms: humility

I'm not saying that if you already have tattoos you have to get rid of them. But for a person who is already a Christian and wants to do everything to the glory of God, I can't see him lusting to get a tattoo. Self-control and humility are a fruit of the Spirit. I also can't see a Christian man getting one to please his wife or kids.

Mat 10:37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Well, I know Christian folk who have been tattooed for reasons having nothing to do with vanity. Some have tattooed on themselves Scripture that has been deeply important to them. Others have tattooed on themselves pictures of deceased loved ones, or a beloved spouse or child. Still others have tattooed on themselves symbols of their faith that are very meaningful to them. And so on. It isn't the case, then, that a tattoo is necessarily an expression of vanity.

And, again, Scripture nowhere prohibits a born-again believer from having a tattoo, nor does it ever associate getting one with a pagan blood ritual or some demonic spirit. Originally, God's prohibition of tattoos was a part of separating out His Chosen People from surrounding pagan nations and their common practices and characteristics. By ordering mundane things like facial hair, body art, horticulture and diet, God also reminded His Chosen People that they were to be wholly set apart unto Himself.