are there any Christians who dont believe in tatoos here

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bub that statement was so sweeping, you cleaned my house.

I can not help that you feel so convicted, that you feel the necessity of arguing with me. I will repeat this statement here often, check your convictions. If you were truly at peace with your stand, you would not feel so offended, or feel so attacked. This could very well be a conviction of your spirit.

This post was a question of the tattoo, which was an honest question, from what appears to be a person who is truly seeking the will of the Lord, and I answered truthfully, and with all the convictions of my heart.

You all who are fighting it, arguing it, your convictions need to be addressed. If you were truly at peace with your beliefs, then my answer would have no bearing on you, you would not feel the need to push this debate.
So you claim to see my heart.

Be that as it may, I thought that your post #617 was rather sweeping in its application, and this is why I said so.
 
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Where do you get this from? Your answer doesn't bear on me... I just don't wish others looking on to fall into the trap of legalism.

Instead of making assumptions about me and thereby sidestepping the actual discussion, could you tell me whether you equally preach against Christmas and the word God, which both have pagan origins, or the internet, which is also used for ill?

Since you ask honestly,

I was saved 1n 1993 at 17, after I was hit by a car and died. I grew up in the Independant Baptist church. I continued in that doctrine until 2008. The reason for many of my current leanings stems from watching the church slide more and more into a do as we will because we are under Grace mindset. I argue your position not from a legalistic standpoint, but one of knowing that slippery slope. Because I too slid down it.

When I was a young boy in the early 1980s my father was still active in the military, and he was stationed in Arkansas. The Independant Baptist church at that time, at least down south was very, very conservative.

In 1989 my dad retired and we moved back to Indiana, what a culture shock. First thing I noticed was woman wearing pants to church, kids addressing adults by their first name, those kinds a little things. I also got caught up in the evangelism to the youth, where they hard sell salvation to children, which I now am against. Because each persons accountability, and understanding of sin differs, and selling salvation to them interferes, I believe, with their coming to an understanding, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, its best to just keep them under sound Biblical teaching, and leave the rest to God. I must have got saved and baptised at least a half a dozen times.
 
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By my teen years I was wild and rebellious, as were all the other Baptist kids, but hey, I was saved. I fornicated, got drunk, fought, and insulted my elders. Easter Sunday 1993, I cursed my mother and ran off to bee with my girlfriend, on the way home I was broadsided, I was on a motorcycle, I was dead 6 min. I do believe I went to hell, but God in his infinite mercy gave me a second chance. I was saved, for real, and baptised, that fall of 1993.

By 1993 the Independant Baptist church was really starting to allow more of the world in. Divorce and remarriage, was no longer seen as a personal failure, or a horrible preventable, family disaster, but normal. Teen pregnancy, provocative clothing, unsupervised teen dating, worldly music so on. By 1998, I was full blown backslidden. My wife, whom I started dating then, got pregnant with our oldest son in 1999, while we were not married, when we married in Nov. 1999 she was 7 months pregnant.

I continued this path. After all, the Independant Baptist church was the only true church of God, right. That is a bit of sarcasm, but at that time, that is what I was convinced of. In 2001, my marriage almost ended in divorce.
 
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Since you ask honestly,

I was saved 1n 1993 at 17, after I was hit by a car and died. I grew up in the Independant Baptist church. I continued in that doctrine until 2008. The reason for many of my current leanings stems from watching the church slide more and more into a do as we will because we are under Grace mindset. I argue your position not from a legalistic standpoint, but one of knowing that slippery slope. Because I too slid down it.

When I was a young boy in the early 1980s my father was still active in the military, and he was stationed in Arkansas. The Independant Baptist church at that time, at least down south was very, very conservative.

In 1989 my dad retired and we moved back to Indiana, what a culture shock. First thing I noticed was woman wearing pants to church, kids addressing adults by their first name, those kinds a little things. I also got caught up in the evangelism to the youth, where they hard sell salvation to children, which I now am against. Because each persons accountability, and understanding of sin differs, and selling salvation to them interferes, I believe, with their coming to an understanding, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, its best to just keep them under sound Biblical teaching, and leave the rest to God. I must have got saved and baptised at least a half a dozen times.

I guess we see things from opposite angles. I see one of the biggest issues today being legalism. I was, myself, baptized in a very fundamental independent Baptist church in South Carolina. The people there are fine folks, and I even tried once attending a Bible college with some of the aspiring preachers there.

I found there that things were just too legalistic and the focus came off of Christ and onto whether I was separate enough from the world. They would take Bibles which weren't Old King James and throw them across the room while cursing them.

I certainly don't support people sinning under the auspices of grace. If something is clearly taught under the New Covenant, I agree that we should encourage our brothers to heed the instruction. I don't believe the same applies for the entire Mosaic Law. I also don't think that realizing freedom from the Mosaic Law will lead to "do whatever you want".
 
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I still was not living 100 percent for the Lord. Like all the rest of my church, I was living with one foot in the world, and one in the church. During the week, I pursued money, and fun. I watched whatever peeked my fancy on tv, or the movies, I browsed whatever I wanted on the internet, I listened to whatever music I wanted to. On Sundays, the day we choose to set aside for God, I only gave God half my time and attention, like everyone else, put the preacher on a timer, I have other things to do. I joked and cut up on unGodly subjects, on and on.

As such, I was not totally living for God, and never had on the full armor of God. I had a temper that was awful. Let me rephrase that, I still have the temper, but now God controls much more of my life. My wife could not take my hot temper anymore, she gave me an ultimatum. Now at first I would love to say I ran straight to God, but that is not true. I first did what everyone else does, I ran to the shrink, and begged him to fix me. Now do not get the wrong idea, I do believe docs and shrinks have there place. I do need the shrink, as until I went, I did not realize the wreck I was in at 17 had messed up some wiring up there, and I have to take some meds to help that. But what I learned was that the shrink could fix the wiring, he could not fix the me problem.

But with the shrinks wiring patch, it did give me a little more clarity, it slowed my 100 mile an hour brain, and the reduced hum allowed the Lord to minister to my soul. No I do not hear voices, or think I have some unheard revelation. LOL

But what I started seeing was this. : None of you are really wrong about "not being under the law" Because after Christ' death, burial, and resurrection, God got out of the forcing people game. Instead we are under a new covenant. This covenant declares that

Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Luke 9:23 - And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Galatians 5:24 - And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

John 12:24 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Mark 8:35 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Romans 6:1 - 6:23

Now viewing scripture range from the book of Romans chapter 6:1 through chapter 6:23...

Romans Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

There are many more verses to this theme. We are to die to ourselves. We are to choose to live for God, and as I learned, we can not serve two masters.

Luke 16:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


Matthew 6:24 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

mammon can mean anything, money, self, lust, etc. This is what I had been doing. This is what so many others in the church had been doing, (dare I say, continue to do) Yes, you are right, we are not forbidden anything. But as my dad used to tell me "Just because you can, does not mean you should"
 
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I guess we see things from opposite angles. I see one of the biggest issues today being legalism. I was, myself, baptized in a very fundamental independent Baptist church in South Carolina. The people there are fine folks, and I even tried once attending a Bible college with some of the aspiring preachers there.

I found there that things were just too legalistic and the focus came off of Christ and onto whether I was separate enough from the world. They would take Bibles which weren't Old King James and throw them across the room while cursing them.

I certainly don't support people sinning under the auspices of grace. If something is clearly taught under the New Covenant, I agree that we should encourage our brothers to heed the instruction. I don't believe the same applies for the entire Mosaic Law. I also don't think that realizing freedom from the Mosaic Law will lead to "do whatever you want".

No brother, we did share that. This what I meant about cultural shock. I went from one extreme to the other. Also, if you were to know me, you would find that I would never go up to someone, lets say for a tattoo, as we are discussing, and tell them they are wrong. BUT, if I am asked, well then....The point Paul was always trying to make to the Jews was that heaping all the laws and dos and donts, on new gentile converts, who did not grow up with that stuff, would do nothing but drive them away. This is why I do not bring these issues up, unless asked, or in conversation with mature christians. Those who know scripture, who have been saved long enough that they should:

Hebrews 5:12-14Common English Bible (CEB)

12 Although you should have been teachers by now, you need someone to teach you an introduction to the basics about God’s message. You have come to the place where you need milk instead of solid food. 13 Everyone who lives on milk is not used to the word of righteousness, because they are babies. 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between good and evil.
 
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I still was not living 100 percent for the Lord. Like all the rest of my church, I was living with one foot in the world, and one in the church. During the week, I pursued money, and fun. I watched whatever peeked my fancy on tv, or the movies, I browsed whatever I wanted on the internet, I listened to whatever music I wanted to. On Sundays, the day we choose to set aside for God, I only gave God half my time and attention, like everyone else, put the preacher on a timer, I have other things to do. I joked and cut up on unGodly subjects, on and on.

As such, I was not totally living for God, and never had on the full armor of God. I had a temper that was awful. Let me rephrase that, I still have the temper, but now God controls much more of my life. My wife could not take my hot temper anymore, she gave me an ultimatum. Now at first I would love to say I ran straight to God, but that is not true. I first did what everyone else does, I ran to the shrink, and begged him to fix me. Now do not get the wrong idea, I do believe docs and shrinks have there place. I do need the shrink, as until I went, I did not realize the wreck I was in at 17 had messed up some wiring up there, and I have to take some meds to help that. But what I learned was that the shrink could fix the wiring, he could not fix the me problem.

But with the shrinks wiring patch, it did give me a little more clarity, it slowed my 100 mile an hour brain, and the reduced hum allowed the Lord to minister to my soul. No I do not hear voices, or think I have some unheard revelation. LOL

But what I started seeing was this. : None of you are really wrong about "not being under the law" Because after Christ' death, burial, and resurrection, God got out of the forcing people game. Instead we are under a new covenant. This covenant declares that

Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Luke 9:23 - And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Galatians 5:24 - And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

John 12:24 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Mark 8:35 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.

Romans 6:1 - 6:23

Now viewing scripture range from the book of Romans chapter 6:1 through chapter 6:23...

Romans Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

There are many more verses to this theme. We are to die to ourselves. We are to choose to live for God, and as I learned, we can not serve two masters.

Luke 16:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


Matthew 6:24 | Read whole chapter | See verse in context
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

mammon can mean anything, money, self, lust, etc. This is what I had been doing. This is what so many others in the church had been doing, (dare I say, continue to do) Yes, you are right, we are not forbidden anything. But as my dad used to tell me "Just because you can, does not mean you should"

I will agree if a man is mastered by tattoos, addicted, then he should free himself from the bondage of that addiction.

I think it is actually good that we can have discussions like this in a forum. Those of us inclined to press back against hyper grace and those of us inclined to press back against hyper legalism can thereby temper one another and eventually, God willing, we'll all be more balanced for it.
 
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So I decided to try to serve God. God tells us to Knock, ask, seek, and thats what I did. In soo8 I left the Independant Baptist church and started church hopping. I started studying scripture, History, everything. In 2012 I met some Mennonites, well at first I was like, man these Guys are out there. But I found that their hearts are right. I still have not totally committed to them, as because of Jesus' debates with the Pharisees I fear "empty vain traditions" But over the past few years I have been learning that many of the traditions they hold to, are to protect against that slippery slope.

I have learned easter and christmas are pagan, this in fact was the first christmas my family and I chose not to fully endorse. My main deal was when I found that Jesus was born during the feast of Tabernacles, which is the end of September, then that christmas, Dec.25, was the day many claimed the sun god feller was born, and this verse popped in my head

Isaiah 42:8 (KJ21)

8 I am the Lord; that is My name. And My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images.

But that is where I am, in a nut shell
 
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I will agree if a man is mastered by tattoos, addicted, then he should free himself from the bondage of that addiction.

I think it is actually good that we can have discussions like this in a forum. Those of us inclined to press back against hyper grace and those of us inclined to press back against hyper legalism can thereby temper one another and eventually, God willing, we'll all be more balanced for it.

That my brother is what I think Jesus meant when he said

Matthew 10:34-36 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

34 “Don’t suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword! 35 For I have come to set

36 a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
so that a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

It seems we humans, when we all agree, or, are afraid to disagree, and openly discuss, that is when extremes seem to set in. So I have to totally agree.

I like how you mentioned the Baptist flinging and spitting on other Bible translations, other than the revered KJV

Growing up, you just about could have me believing Jesus spoke like Shakespeare LOL. But it is through my studies of differing translations, that I have come to a deeper connection to the scripture. I am sure you will agree some translations are better than others, there are a few that should be burned. But as a whole, praise God for the variety. Language is a living thing, it changes and morphs. Furthermore, many times , from what I have been told by those who are smarter than me, and can read Greek and Hebrew, many phrases and words, do not translate easily, and it is real hard translating a complete meaning, but with several interpretations, one can start to grasp meaning.
 
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Hi JoshuaDaryl: I love the King James, too. :) I really do.

(Maybe getting a little bit off topic.)

I do to, it is the version that has spread the Gospel to more people than any other. It is the one I grew up with. But I know it is not the only Translation that is accurate, if I may phrase it that way. God keeps his word, and wants it translated so all men can come to know him. But we must be diligent to study, thats all.
 
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With regards to the verse in Leviticus, as well as with pretty much anything in the Bible, you have to look at it through the lens of the people that the author is speaking too and how their culture functions. In Moses' time, the only people who had tattoos were pagans who used them as part of their religious rituals. So in that sense, God commanded the Israelites to not make markings on their bodies as a way to set them apart from those who worshiped idols. Nowadays, that distinction doesn't exist anymore, as you can find God fearing men and women who see nothing wrong with getting a tattoo, as well as people who walk in darkness and dress in slacks and three piece suits. Like as with many other things, if you want to tattoo a cross or a Bible verse on your body, I see nothing wrong with that, but if you get something that is traditionally associated with devil worship, then there's a problem. Keep in mind that this is just my conviction, and if any of you feel convicted that tattoos are wrong, I am by no means encouraging you to go against what you feel God is telling you.
 
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With regards to the verse in Leviticus, as well as with pretty much anything in the Bible, you have to look at it through the lens of the people that the author is speaking too and how their culture functions. In Moses' time, the only people who had tattoos were pagans who used them as part of their religious rituals. So in that sense, God commanded the Israelites to not make markings on their bodies as a way to set them apart from those who worshiped idols. Nowadays, that distinction doesn't exist anymore, as you can find God fearing men and women who see nothing wrong with getting a tattoo, as well as people who walk in darkness and dress in slacks and three piece suits. Like as with many other things, if you want to tattoo a cross or a Bible verse on your body, I see nothing wrong with that, but if you get something that is traditionally associated with devil worship, then there's a problem. Keep in mind that this is just my conviction, and if any of you feel convicted that tattoos are wrong, I am by no means encouraging you to go against what you feel God is telling you.

Hi SistrNChrist:

One factor is often that faith based tattoo designs have also been proven effective in conversation starting, in witness. From a pragmatic point of view also, they work.

You're from NYC? I'm sure there are lots of tattoo parlors in your area, and I'll guess a proportion of the clients may be Christian.

Blessings.
 
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Hi SistrNChrist:

One factor is often that faith based tattoo designs have also been proven effective in conversation starting, in witness. From a pragmatic point of view also, they work.

You're from NYC? I'm sure there are lots of tattoo parlors in your area, and I'll guess a proportion of the clients may be Christian.

Blessings.
Yeah...I'm one of the rare people that is born and raised there. And I'm pretty sure that there are more Christian clients that go to tattoo parlors than we think there are. I go to a non denominational church, and there are plenty of believers that have tats, including one of the sons of my pastors. Honestly, I don't judge how Christian a person is based on his or her appearance, as I've seen strong Christians that have long hair (for men), body piercings/tats, and colored hair, and I've also seen people that dress in three piece suits and walk in darkness.
 
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Yeah...I'm one of the rare people that is born and raised there. And I'm pretty sure that there are more Christian clients that go to tattoo parlors than we think there are. I go to a non denominational church, and there are plenty of believers that have tats, including one of the sons of my pastors. Honestly, I don't judge how Christian a person is based on his or her appearance, as I've seen strong Christians that have long hair (for men), body piercings/tats, and colored hair, and I've also seen people that dress in three piece suits and walk in darkness.
SistrNChrist:

There might be plenty of reasons why a Christian might want to use a tattoo parlor. I think you are into rock music, right? and it would not be unusual for members of a Christian rock band to wear leather and ripped jeans together with one or two tattoos and/or piercings. Just as other genres of musical performance might - in a classical concert - involve the musicians wearing tuxedos or off-the-shoulder gowns, etc.

"And I'm pretty sure that there are more Christian clients that go to tattoo parlors than we think there are." I'm sure this is true; it's not only 18 year olds that do it as a rite of passage, but moms or grandmothers who might get the dates of birth of kids/grandkids on their wrists, etc, together with praying hands, or whatever; military spouses with patriotic or prayer themes inked on them, etc, right?

Blessings.
 
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SistrNChrist:

There might be plenty of reasons why a Christian might want to use a tattoo parlor. I think you are into rock music, right? and it would not be unusual for members of a Christian rock band to wear leather and ripped jeans together with one or two tattoos and/or piercings. Just as other genres of musical performance might - in a classical concert - involve the musicians wearing tuxedos or off-the-shoulder gowns, etc.

"And I'm pretty sure that there are more Christian clients that go to tattoo parlors than we think there are." I'm sure this is true; it's not only 18 year olds that do it as a rite of passage, but moms or grandmothers who might get the dates of birth of kids/grandkids on their wrists, etc, together with praying hands, or whatever; military spouses with patriotic or prayer themes inked on them, etc, right?

Blessings.
So true...ever since the 90s, it's been standard in the Christian rock scene for members to have tattoos/piercings/dreads, etc. And like I said before, I've seen people get tattoos that have deep meaning to them instead of the stereotypical Satanic symbols one might associate with tattoos, for example, my sister's friend is a famous tattoo artist, and she told me that she once got a request to tattoo someone's leg with a picture of that person's pet that had passed away.
















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So true...ever since the 90s, it's been standard in the Christian rock scene for members to have tattoos/piercings/dreads, etc. And like I said before, I've seen people get tattoos that have deep meaning to them instead of the stereotypical Satanic symbols one might associate with tattoos, for example, my sister's friend is a famous tattoo artist, and she told me that she once got a request to tattoo someone's leg with a picture of that person's pet that had passed away.
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SistrNChrist:

Yes, it's ever so widespread now; not remotely unusual.

Getting tattooed today is a bit like getting double pierced ears was 30-35 years ago: it might have been seen as a bit edgy at first but now it's so widespread that it's hardly noticed.

With hard rock music, it's the lyrics that count.

With tattoos, it's the message that counts. (Sometimes there is hardly any message.) Among Christians, many people find faith based designs to be effective in witness as conversation-starters.
 
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