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

[farouk]

@Duncan Thanks for your participation in the poll vote, above, just now.

[farouk]

@Taylorz Ty for your interest in the thread, anyway.

In some areas - you said Alberta, right? - it's probably more widespread than in others, but anyway in some areas among professing Christians arranging the tattoo parlor experience for the faith based ink is pretty much expected.

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..in the rural Bible Belt. Just about every person in three of the four sides of my family (bio parents, step parents) have multiple tattoos. Most of them are biblical (crosses between the shoulder blades are the most common ones) getting tattoos when your old enough is pretty much expected in the family.

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[farouk]

@Taylorz Ty for the 'like'. Yes, it seems that a lot of Christians do it now, especially in the US.

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Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

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[AdHoc]

4 hours ago, farouk said:

Hi @AdHoc

 

 

A lot of Christians do find that a Scripture /faith based tattoo prompts conversations with ppl.

All the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed, with whom I have spoken, seem to have received them as witness tools, anyway.

Hi, and thanks for the response.  I am no ones judge. I have my thoughts on the matter, but they are not important. I just remember that a man who killed Christians became one of our Lord's chiefest Apostles. What then is a tattoo or ten?

[farouk]

6 minutes ago, AdHoc said:

Hi, and thanks for the response.  I am no ones judge. I have my thoughts on the matter, but they are not important. I just remember that a man who killed Christians became one of our Lord's chiefest Apostles. What then is a tattoo or ten?

@AdHoc Thanks.

I was thinking of Hebrews also. What the moral and spiritual implications entail as regards the types and shadows in the OT and their fulfillment most gloriously in Christ, with implications for time and for eternity. So the idea of legalistic ppl busybodying about stuff such as other ppl's faith based ink makes little sense, imho.

Fact is, in some parts of North America such as the Bible Belt among professing Christians it's almost pretty much expected, it seems.

FYI:

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..in the rural Bible Belt. Just about every person in three of the four sides of my family (bio parents, step parents) have multiple tattoos. Most of them are biblical (crosses between the shoulder blades are the most common ones) getting tattoos when your old enough is pretty much expected in the family.

source: reddit

 

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Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com

 

These facts are hard to fight.

[farouk]

PS: @AdHoc Thanks also for your participation in the poll.

[AdHoc]

42 minutes ago, farouk said:

@AdHoc Thanks.

I was thinking of Hebrews also. What the moral and spiritual implications entail as regards the types and shadows in the OT and their fulfillment most gloriously in Christ, with implications for time and for eternity. So the idea of legalistic ppl busybodying about stuff such as other ppl's faith based ink makes little sense, imho.

Fact is, in some parts of North America such as the Bible Belt among professing Christians it's almost pretty much expected, it seems.

FYI:

source: reddit

 

forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot com

 

These facts are hard to fight.

I don't have a problem with that. In fact I don't have a problem with an ex-hippie with a Satanic tattoo. Romans 7 says that those under Law will fail. Romans 8 says those who have the life of Christ in them will prevail. I'm for the "Law of Life in Christ Jesus" - not some law from another fallen human. But I will say that a righteous, holy, disciplined life will go much further for the gospel than a tattoo.

[farouk]

5 minutes ago, AdHoc said:

 I will say that a righteous, holy, disciplined life will go much further for the gospel than a tattoo.

@AdHoc Oh I agree, indeed. It's the inward and spiritual life in Christ - working itself out in testimony, Godward and manward, that really speaks volumes.

 

[farouk]

7 minutes ago, AdHoc said:

I don't have a problem with that.

(Wanted to refer to your earlier bit as well...)

I think such facts are self-evident today.

Such evidence abounds, FYI:

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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.

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Corgiverse

I’m pretty sure being heavily tattooed at this point is a job requirement. ..

Every single nurse I know w the exception of the older lady who precepted me (but she’s like 60 so she gets a pass ) has tattoos.

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godlywoman413 said:

"I have some tattoos that I had gotten as a younger person. Mine are not anything questionable."

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It's often the most conservative of ppl that are tattooed; what godlywoman413 says is not unusual; the idea that it's a sign of being some kind of way out radical doesn't fit. That being said, a lot of young Christians use the means as a witness tool.

This is so self-evident that, as mentioned, it's hard for legalists to fight the facts.

[farouk]

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