Poll: Faith-based tattoo: Have you ever talked to someone with one?

[farouk]

@Ps37 said:

'I was in a home improvement store the other day and saw a fellow with Phil. 4:13 tattooed on his arm.

Had to stop just to say "always good to meet a fellow believer." '

Re. a faith-based tattoo: Have you ever talked to someone with one?

(With the closure some weeks ago of a previous poll, an opportunity to vote on one's experiences in talking to ppl with faith-based tattoos.)

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Edited May 20 by farouk

[farouk]

Thanks, @missmuffet, for your participation in the poll.

I appreciated your point on the other thread that someone else started: "I think it is a personal matter. A person needs to remember that a tattoo is permanent. The NT is silent on tattoos. Therefore you can't say that a tattoo is a sin. What message does the tattoo send?"

 

(I think anyway that this tattoo radiates modesty, imho.)

 

[farouk]

Thanks @Gracejj for your participation in the poll.

I guess you might have surmised that the person that you talked to with a faith based tattoo might even have gotten it with encouraging exactly such conversations...........? (Maybe so; maybe not.......)

[Gracejj]

3 minutes ago, farouk said:

Thanks @Gracejj for your participation in the poll.

I guess you might have surmised that the person that you talked to with a faith based tattoo might even have gotten it with encouraging exactly such conversations...........? (Maybe so; maybe not.......)

It was very long time ago. 

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, Gracejj said:

It was very long time ago. 

@Gracejj Well, I wouldn't expect you to remember too much, then..........

They do seem to cause conversations, anyway; a lot of ppl seem to say so.

FYI:

I think the pastor's wife has a faith tattoo.... quite a few in my church have faith based tattoos and my friend and I were talking about them....I've seen tattoos that have a lot of meaning like mine. I feel mine is special and thankful I got it.

Mayflower christianityboard dot com

[NConly]

3 hours ago, farouk said:

Thanks, @missmuffet, for your participation in the poll.

I appreciated your point on the other thread that someone else started: "I think it is a personal matter. A person needs to remember that a tattoo is permanent. The NT is silent on tattoos. Therefore you can't say that a tattoo is a sin. What message does the tattoo send?"

 

(I think anyway that this tattoo radiates modesty, imho.)

 

They may be permanent but I had one for a couple years and decided I wanted something different so i chose one that would cover the old one and now one can not tell I covered up another with it.

[farouk]

8 minutes ago, NConly said:

They may be permanent but I had one for a couple years and decided I wanted something different so i chose one that would cover the old one and now one can not tell I covered up another with it.

Hi @NConly Cover-ups are not that unusual, right?

Sometimes it's not unusual for tattoo cover-ups to be obtained after a person's thorough change of convictions by God's grace.

For example, a woman with the name of a non-Christian ex-bf tattooed (e.g., "BILL") might well choose to have a good tattoo artist change the "BILL" to read "BIBLE" instead, reflecting her new-found faith and convictions.

(Some would think it bordering on the cruel for legalists to try to guilt-manipulate her to have the name of her non-Christian ex-bf visible for the rest of her life.)

..............not that yours was quite the same as her cover-up.

[Sower]

4 hours ago, farouk said:

Thanks, @missmuffet, for your participation in the poll.

I appreciated your point on the other thread that someone else started: "I think it is a personal matter. A person needs to remember that a tattoo is permanent. The NT is silent on tattoos. Therefore you can't say that a tattoo is a sin. What message does the tattoo send?"

 

(I think anyway that this tattoo radiates modesty, imho.)

 

 

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farouk; "A person needs to remember that a tattoo is permanent"

 

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[farouk]

Hi @Retrobyter I guess tattoos are a bit more on topic here than my remarks on the other thread were. (FYI, poll above...) It's one of those subjects where no one will think exactly the same.

[farouk]

Although posted on another thread, this really fits better here.

@Sower Thanks for your comment.

Some Christians really regret not having a faith-based tattoo.

Shekinah said:

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I am a born again Christian and I do have a tattoo. Would love to put a picture but it says eternal but the T is a cross.Having always admired tattoos when asked where mine was I was tired of always saying i did not have one. The conversation always ended. Now that I have one I do have conversations. I talk about how everyone is eternal in their soul, and it matters how we treat people. How we have to consider heaven and hell may come into the conversation

source via poster

If it's for a faith-based design (Bible verse, ref., Christian fish sign <><, etc.), some Christians seem indeed to find the needles desirable.