Tattoos.
Long ago in my younger days when I was in my rebellion, I wanted a tattoo of Garfield holding his Pookie bear on my left shoulders. I love Garfield and I used to have a stuffed Garfield. But unbeknownst to me, I became legalistic and found out that it was a sin to have Tattoos when I read that God commanded his people not to mark their bodies. I felt it was his abomination and i didn't want to displease him. Up until recently I continued to feel that way and I would try to make my point to friends who felt other wise. I have found that to be a lost cause. There are many commands God gave his people in the Pentateuch such as women shouldn't wear pants and yet women do. So if I point out what God said about marking our bodies, they will point something else out. I have decided to use scriptures in the New Testament to prove my point again until recently. When we use scripture to help others we need to be careful not to take it out of context. I thought when Paul wrote that our ...
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