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Hi @Coruscating FYI......... Psalm thread started.............

Any more quitting stories, ppl?

@NConly Come to think of it, each tattoo encounter is unique, right? I think you were recently considering particular colors for a design, anyway.

@Sower Glad you managed to quit.........

Hi @NConly So if the cost is not too prohibitive, do you intend from time to time to keep filling available skin for more artwork?

@Tristen The word for repentance - metanoia - indeed basically means turning: from sin and to God in faith.

Hi @Scott Free "John 3:16, the most beautiful thought ever written. How could she regret that kind of tattoo? A dim reflection of the real tattoo that adorns her inner self." Some ppl, above, were talking about tattoo regret. But I reckon she doesn't regret getting inked up with such a witness friendly tattoo as John 3.16, right? (I reckon she went into the tattoo parlor for her appointment pretty confidently, anyway.)

@Scott Free So much distortion about, right? Good to stick to Scripture, indeed........

@Debp Bible and NT publishing in economic formats is such a good work, indeed..............

Hi @blessings from above FYI..........did you see the poll, above?

Hi @blessings from above Re. John 3.16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." For the believer receiving everlasting life by faith is far more than dreaming, right?

I don't think so, @blessings from above .......... Looking forward in certain hope, for the believer, is not just dreaming.

@RdJ Well, for your colleague it must have been really memorable to have become tattooed for that purpose, on the occasion.

Hi @RdJ I think there is a distinction between the church and tribulation saints also..........

Hi @blessings from above I do like to focus on Scripture and the Lord Himself (Hebrews 12.2); often my dreams don't make much sense at all..........

Well, it's very arid.......

@RdJ Interesting; I guess it's the permanence of a wedding band tattoo that attracts the person. Like, as if to say: This is really permanent; we don't believe in divorce.......... (Do you think so?)

@RdJ I that if Bible readers think about the Who? of the subject of the rapture as well as the What? aspect, then if they realize that it applies to church rather than to the tribulation saints on earth, then the subject is clarified.

Hi @RdJ "Yes she didn't look like someone who had a lot of tattoos. A small tattoo wouldn't have surprised me." I expect that since you posted this, you've seen or talked to more ppl with tattoos. A lot of Christians do have them, sometimes faith-based.

@RdJ Great verses there; we need to be humble........

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll. NB: If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now.

Hi @TrueFollowerOfChrist I guess you know the little song: "Wonderful things in the Bible I see, especially what's put there by you and by me...."

@grahampaul Rahab is mentioned in Hebrews 11.

So any more favorite Psalms, ppl?

Hi @TheBlade You said (back a bit) : "I still remember the very young girl with all these beautiful tattoos and I complement her on them. She then looked sad saying its best to think before you get them. She never looked ahead and how she would feel just a few years later. We can add burdens to those that have them or make them feel condemned." I do realize what you say about having it done rashly without proper forethought and ppl thus living to regret it. Seems also like here on the thread there are those who plan to get tattooed who are indeed giving it a great deal of thought. Indeed, @Tristen said: "I have noticed that people with tattoos often have other random people approach them to ask about their tats. In the context of a faith-based tattoo, that can lead to a non-Christian opening the door to a discussion about the Gospel. I can therefore see some merit in that motive."