'Christian tattoos to start a conversation as the Lord leads.'

[Tristen]

14 hours ago, farouk said:

Hi  @Tristen ;  you might or might not have any further comment; but did you see the new poll, above?

(The other thread about tattoos got off topic and was closed.)

Hi Farouk,

To me, this is not so important a topic as to invest too much time on.

Christians are as free as non-Christians to get tattoos if they so desire. There is no rule (or law) in Christianity prohibiting tattoos.

I see a couple of possible caveats:

- It is possible that God does not want a particular person to have a tattoo. So then, the individual desiring a tattoo needs to be sensitive to God's will for them. Note: it is also conceivable that God might instruct someone to get a tattoo - and they should do so, even if that is not their own desire.

- Obviously (hopefully), if a tattoo design dishonors God in any way, our own conscience should tell us to not get that tattoo. But if the tattoo design honors God, and/or is used for effective witnessing, all the better.

[Tristen]

15 hours ago, farouk said:

Hi  @Tristen ;  you might or might not have any further comment; but did you see the new poll, above?

(The other thread about tattoos got off topic and was closed.)

My response to the poll is - Only the anointing of the Holy Spirit can guide any of us into salvation. The Holy Spirit can use whatever He decides; in accordance with His own wisdom and the individual circumstance; including tattoos.

 

[farouk]

On 5/11/2023 at 7:37 PM, Tristen said:

My response to the poll is - Only the anointing of the Holy Spirit can guide any of us into salvation. The Holy Spirit can use whatever He decides; in accordance with His own wisdom and the individual circumstance; including tattoos.

 

@Tristen Good post! (Philippians 1.6 comes to mind also...)

And I agree that it's good not to get fixated with the tattoo aspect. All the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed that I have spoken with seem to have gone to the tattoo parlor for a witness tool.

When I talked with them, we concentrated on the Bible verse aspect of what must have been their joyful tattooing experiences.

[farouk]

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Although I wouldn't get a tattoo, I wouldn't condemn anyone about having one.   God looks on the heart, not the outward appearance.

@Debp FYI, so did you see the new poll, above?

[Debp]

17 minutes ago, farouk said:

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@Debp FYI, so did you see the new poll, above?

No, not really into the tattoo subject.  

[farouk]

On 5/11/2023 at 5:28 PM, NConly said:

Yes, the pain was not scary for me and one made it easy for more.

@NConly Yes, and for a lot of ppl now realizing the pain really is manageable is likely the key to adding more ink.

I have talked with both a young man and a young woman, both with the wording of the whole of John 3.16 injected onto their arms: a lot of words there, which must have come about particularly after it was realized that the pain really is manageable.

Because parlor sessions getting poked are now widely understood to be manageable, it seems that they have become so widely understood as a standard way to express both one's coming of age and at a later stage of life to carry the names of one's grandchildren.

Many a Christian parent who has known that one's daughter had been planning to enter nursing training, the giving of lots of injections, etc., (as it were, nursing: poking and being poked...) will have suddenly seen the new nurse - including from the most conservative families - emerge with their almost standard new inking:

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juliannenw said:

I am a nurse in a cardiac ICU. I am also pretty heavily tattooed. I am a well educated, well rounded nurse, and was raised with strong morals and manners. .. I am an extremely traditional person. .. a professional persona as well as a unique one while I'm not working allnurses dot com

 Corgiverse RN

At this point- honestly it’s almost a requirement. Every single one of my coworkers is tattooed. reddit dot com

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So also Heavenhome's comment about the different age groups that have grasped that having it done is manageable was pretty accurate when she said:

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My dear Dad had two tattoos but that was from his navy days.

I have noticed however that lots of young girls have them and what is really noticeable is a huge amount are women say around their sixties. christianforums dot com

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In the case of the rapidly and widely spreading custom for grandmothers - realizing the pain is manageable - bearing the inked in names of their grandchildren on their arms, it seems in some ways a slight parallel to the idea in Exodus 28.12 and Exodus 28.29 of the high priest bearing the names of the children of Israel on the breastplate (which of course preaches well, when it comes to the NT) So it does seem to be a rapidly spreading custom for the older generation when it's realized that the pain is indeed manageable.

For so many of the older generation now, the attitude about having the names of one's grandchildren inked on one's arms: "what a nice idea, but at my age I couldn't possibly go through all that pain" will have widely been replaced by "yes, I can do it, too".

Like you said: "for me..one made it easy for more".

Edited May 15, 2023 by farouk

[farouk]

On 5/11/2023 at 10:56 AM, NConly said:

it is easy

On 5/11/2023 at 5:28 PM, NConly said:

one made it easy

 

PS: @NConly And yes, you keep saying it is easy  - an operative word -and I think that ppl now realizing it is really easy to go into a tattoo parlor and be worked on is proving to be behind a remarkable expansion of the industry, which informs the background to the accumulating poll results, above, which should be interesting.

shnarkle said:

 

One of the churches I go to has three quite elderly women, all widows, who recently went out and got themselves tattoos. .. There was no doubt they were all first tattoos. All three of them went out and got them together.

christianforums dot com

 

Like, its probable now that a remarkable amount of older tattooees are thinking: "This is so easy; I now see I could had it done years ago because it's so easy."

 

(If this makes sense?)

 

 

[farouk]

Hi @LearningToLetGo Interesting screen name there.

Kind of reminds me also; do you think it's the sort of phrase that applies for parents of adolescents who want their first tattoo; and they are a bit surprised, but they know they must adapt to the fact that their sons and daughters are now becoming adults?

(Did you see the recent poll, above, also? I think the results should be interesting, anyway...)

[farouk]

Hi @bropro FYI......you've posted a bit about tattoos...did you see the new poll, above? (The results should be interesting.)

[NConly]

1 hour ago, farouk said:

PS: @NConly And yes, you keep saying it is easy  - an operative word -and I think that ppl now realizing it is really easy to go into a tattoo parlor and be worked on is proving to be behind a remarkable expansion of the industry, which informs the background to the accumulating poll results, above, which should be interesting.

shnarkle said:

 

christianforums dot com

 

Like, its probable now that a remarkable amount of older tattooees are thinking: "This is so easy; I now see I could had it done years ago because it's so easy."

 

(If this makes sense?)

 

 

Well I think everyone has experienced a shot in a Doc's office they go deep into muscle tissue and imo they hurt. Tat's don't hurt near as bad.