So for long sessions do you and your wife use a lot of numbing cream maybe?
Tattoo First Timer Yet?
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So for long sessions do you and your wife use a lot of numbing cream maybe?
No, we just use A&E for the first week.
... He just isn't crazy about tattoos.
Sparrow: For example, would you expect him to overrule your preference to become tattooed, however tastefully?
(I know it works this way with some couples, anyway.)
Blessings.
Although I have no desire for one myself, I know quite a few Christians who have used these symbols for tattoos. The ones I have seen are very small.
Although I have no desire for one myself, I know quite a few Christians who have used these symbols for tattoos. The ones I have seen are very small.
Hope: Well, thank-you, and this is very interesting.
I can see the Cross, and maybe also the Empty Tomb (if I'm not mistaken) and you are right that these when tattooed can be used by Christians as means to get talking to people, can't they?
Tattoos are very effective in this way, in fact.
What would the arrows signify?
Blessings.
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First arrow--He came. Luke 2: 11 Why? John 1: 11-12
The Cross--He died. I Peter 2: 24 Why? Romans 3: 23
The empty tomb--He arose! Mark 16:6 Why? Romans 6: 23
Second arrow--He ascended. Acts 1: 9 Why? John 14: 3
Third arrow--He's coming back. Acts 1: 11 Why? Romans 10: 13
There you have it! The Good News in a nutshell (tattoo?) or handy little drawing to help you witness. My husband had these symbols carved into a stone which sits on our front porch. People are generally curious about symbols, I guess, because many people have asked what they mean. We happily explain. They were not our original idea, however. An elderly man in our church came up with them many years ago and has used them as witnessing illustrations for decades.
The Cross--He died. I Peter 2: 24 Why? Romans 3: 23
The empty tomb--He arose! Mark 16:6 Why? Romans 6: 23
Second arrow--He ascended. Acts 1: 9 Why? John 14: 3
Third arrow--He's coming back. Acts 1: 11 Why? Romans 10: 13
There you have it! The Good News in a nutshell (tattoo?) or handy little drawing to help you witness. My husband had these symbols carved into a stone which sits on our front porch. People are generally curious about symbols, I guess, because many people have asked what they mean. We happily explain. They were not our original idea, however. An elderly man in our church came up with them many years ago and has used them as witnessing illustrations for decades.
Hope:
PS: Maybe some of the tattooed Christians that you know who bear faith based designs are women?
because it's fair to say that tattoo equality has been attained by women and it's likely that increasingly Christian women also will be wishing to participate in the effective witness means through faith based designs, inked in various modest placements.
Blessings.
Hope: Oh thanks a lot for this excellent Gospel explanation!
Very good!
And it can be used naturally either in a tattoo or by some other medium also.
Thinking about the arrows, they link in thematically with the arrow on your avatar, right?
Blessings.
Yes, I know at least two young women who have the symbols I mentioned above as tattoos. Both are great witnesses, but I'm not sure the tattoos have anything to do with it.
Hope: Well, I'm sure that the young women you mention already had vibrant, joyful hearts before they desired the inking needle to tattoo them with those interesting witness symbols!
Sounds like those designs, effective in testimony, have been used by a lot of folk in your local church that are now tattooed with them, anyway.
Seems to me also that the wrist or lower arm would make a particularly good placement for the set of symbols that you reproduced, above, don't you think?
Blessings.
Sounds like you guys have gotten almost to be kind of veterans at having it done, anyway.
PS: Hope:
Oh it's only for those who personally really want to do it.
I did see this interesting extract:
' "..most of my clients are in the older bracket," Gallo-Kohlas told The Huffington Post. "We see a lot of women in their sixties and seventies getting their first tattoos." Gallo-Kohlas recalls a woman in her sixties who got a tattoo because everyone in the golf clique at her gated community had one. It seemed like the thing to do in order to fit in.' (source: laura stempler, huffintonpost dot com)
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But there does need to be a strong personal motivation and I guess that with your family it would probably be either kids/grandkids that would be more likely to have it done.
Personally I think it's their potential for faith based designs that is the most significant; or stated differently, good if sanctified.
Blessings.
Haha, somewhat. I can't vouch for the most painful places. We're probably only moderately veterans. Maryse might be more of an expert than we.
What is the view of Lev. 19:28.?
I'd love to hear Farouk's response too (I'm not answering for him), but I remember asking this question myself when my mom and sister each got their first tattoos. this verse is not binding upon Christians for the same reason that the verse “nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff” (Leviticus 19:19) is not binding upon Christians. Rather it is a part of the ceremonial law that was binding upon the Jewish people but not binding upon Christians (except for when it coincides with the moral law).
What are your thoughts, Farouk, on Beagler's question?
Not a problem. Moral law being the objective principle of what is right. To hurt others, for instance, is an absolute wrong. To help others is an absolute right.
I did use a physical example, but it's not limited to mental or physical, because of course we could break moral law when it comes to the metaphysical (if we get angry at God, if we reject God, etc).
Give me an example of what you mean by God's Law conflicting with Moral Law? Do you mean earthly moral law vs. spiritual moral law?