I never got a tatoo because I didn't want any more identifying marks than I already have. Most here probably never went thru the slightly unpleasant ordeal of booking deputies looking you over for such things while asking if you went by any aliases. Now everybody will be leery of me, won't they? Except for the few that remember my description of the circumstamces. Great thing to have in your past, thank you Alexandria City courts.

Any of those things I think fall under the old metric of lawful, unlawful, or indifferent. If lawful or indifferent, then are they necessary or unnecessary? If unnecessary, then are they edifying or offensive to your brethren? I would follow that rule in determining whether to do any of these things.

I know some older (and even not-so-old) christians that stumble when they see tatoos or culturally unusual piercings, so I find them unnecessary and possibly offensive to my brethren, so I don't have any, but I believe that to be a personal scruple.... kinda like long hair on a man.

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Brad
PCA Member
Virginia

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.