Best Ear Piercing Method: Gun Or Needle?
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Hi Major:
There are actually other threads also which discuss tattoos more directly.
Fact it, re. piercing, both men and women do it. Re. tattoos, in North America women have taken to doing it as well as men to such an extent that 59% of parlor clients are women, with some areas reporting 70% women, apparently. So for example, among homeschooling moms, grandmothers, etc., it's not unusual for women to get kids' and grandkids' names or dates of birth done.
More directly about ear piercing, though, what do you think is a better method, gun or needle?
Blessings.
Ah yes. I remember some really wonderful sinus medicine I picked up in a subway in Japan only to find out the active ingredient is banned here. Fortunately, I don't often have sinus problems, but when I do...I really wish I could obtain it. Nothing else ever works for me.
I was just going to say that this thread has been hijacked!!!
Farouk: I've got the standard gauge fitted which is about 18 gauge or so, but im sure id be able to fit a 16 if i tried. My brother has got his lip, eyebrow and upper ear done. He's got them removed now (just too much to look after I suppose lol)
Yes your right the holes may have stretched by now - might be able to squeeze a 16 in but don't intend on going any further. Don't want to end up with saggy earlobes as the years go by hehe
Jake
I was just going to say that this thread has been hijacked!!!
Farouk: I've got the standard gauge fitted which is about 18 gauge or so, but im sure id be able to fit a 16 if i tried. My brother has got his lip, eyebrow and upper ear done. He's got them removed now (just too much to look after I suppose lol)
Yes your right the holes may have stretched by now - might be able to squeeze a 16 in but don't intend on going any further. Don't want to end up with saggy earlobes as the years go by hehe
Jake
Jake:
Yes, as the years go by, if you're not intending to stretch, there's a lot to be said - especially for a guy - to choose carefully the studs he wants and then once embedded in the lobes and healed, just keep them in all the time.Blessings.
So then........you are saying that because a lot of people get tattoos and have body parts pierced it is Overrides and cancels out the Word of God on such matters?
As for a needle or a gun..........I defer to Glomungs comment.
That would be silly Major, and you and I both know it. Remember, YOU believe that the Bible forbids it. Not everyone shares that interpretation.
Major:
It's no cocern of mine whether, for example, your wife has pierced ears, but I gather from that you're saying you believe even this would be unbiblical. Or maybe I've misunderstood. (I see that even Ezekiel 16:12 records the Lord giving Zion a nose ring.
)Well, okay.
I just don't expect that more than a fraction of Christians in North America would agree with you, but, then, you are right that numbers don't stop you doing your own thing conscientiously.
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Blessings.
Let me sum something up. Right is right and wrong is wrong. The number of people that accept the rightness or wrongness of a thing is irrelevant. People do not get to decide what is universally right and wrong. To some extent, we can decide what is right and wrong for us in certain circumstances, but ultimately it is the Holy Spirit's task to reveal that to each of us. What He chooses to reveal to me is not automatically a universal truth. It CAN be, but it isn't always.
The problem with forcing our rights and wrong on other people is because too often, the Holy Spirit is completely left out of the equation. I'm not saying that anyone is doing that, but that is a very real danger with applying the Law to anyone other than yourself. Personally, I'd rather trust the Holy Spirit to convict. If we are talking with genuine brothers, then I think we can trust the Holy Spirit to work with their heart. If we are dealing with unbelievers, then we do them a disservice by applying the Law without first appealing to their heart.
The problem with forcing our rights and wrong on other people is because too often, the Holy Spirit is completely left out of the equation. I'm not saying that anyone is doing that, but that is a very real danger with applying the Law to anyone other than yourself. Personally, I'd rather trust the Holy Spirit to convict. If we are talking with genuine brothers, then I think we can trust the Holy Spirit to work with their heart. If we are dealing with unbelievers, then we do them a disservice by applying the Law without first appealing to their heart.
Banerenth:
...and following on from this, I guess the Holy Spirit, with the wealth of Scripture which He inspired, and uses and blesses, is likely to convict people authoritatively on a huge range of subjects first, before including ear piercing as well among those subjects, at anything more than a subjective level....
Blessings.
What I'm saying is that it is a debatable and controversial issue. To automatically assume that because someone views it from a different interpretation is a violation of the rules of this site.
It is kinda like this. Say I believe that we MUST follow the Kosher food laws. I have done this from time to time mostly for the experience. What is gained by me saying that someone who doesn't follow the food laws must therefore be violating Scripture? Does such a statement make me a better Christian? Does it bring another Christian closer to God? Does it help to bring a sinner to Salvation? In fact, it does none of the above. What it does do is offend and destroy unity. Sadly, that is about all it accomplishes.
Aside from that, if anyone DOES believe that because people in our country now accept something that it is now moral, then that is also an incorrect belief. Remember, our nation is becoming largely pro-abortion and pro-homosexual. That does not make those practices Holy and correct. The would not be Holy or Righteous even if 100% of all living people on the Earth decided that they were. I also trust my God on those issues. I have no reason or desire to trust my own judgement over the power of the Holy Spirit in the life of a fellow Christian.
It is kinda like this. Say I believe that we MUST follow the Kosher food laws. I have done this from time to time mostly for the experience. What is gained by me saying that someone who doesn't follow the food laws must therefore be violating Scripture? Does such a statement make me a better Christian? Does it bring another Christian closer to God? Does it help to bring a sinner to Salvation? In fact, it does none of the above. What it does do is offend and destroy unity. Sadly, that is about all it accomplishes.
Aside from that, if anyone DOES believe that because people in our country now accept something that it is now moral, then that is also an incorrect belief. Remember, our nation is becoming largely pro-abortion and pro-homosexual. That does not make those practices Holy and correct. The would not be Holy or Righteous even if 100% of all living people on the Earth decided that they were. I also trust my God on those issues. I have no reason or desire to trust my own judgement over the power of the Holy Spirit in the life of a fellow Christian.
I think it would be great if we could all learn how to stick to the topic of a the thread without going off subject by discussing or trying to prove our own points.
God knows our hearts and our intentions. If something is done with wrong intention he KNOWS. Lets fix our eyes on Jesus!!
Peace
God knows our hearts and our intentions. If something is done with wrong intention he KNOWS. Lets fix our eyes on Jesus!!
Peace
Jake:
Yes, indeed.
I see you seemed to agree about the benefit for a guy of keeping a well selected pair of studs in one's lobes all the time.
(It used to be one ear that guys did if they did it, but now the view seems to be, might as well do both, and I guess I agree, too.)
Blessings.