Maria wrote:We need to pray for Jean-Serge and his fiancée, so that she will be saved.
He is demonstrating what God expects us to do by praying and trying to convince her to do what is right.Lord have mercy.
I don't have fiancee, it was an assumption. If I had a fiancee whou would like to have a tattoo, I would leave her... Thank your for your concern... it is a false alarm 
Priidite, poklonimsja i pripadem ko Hristu.
I just came across this article, Illuminati Behind Popularity of Tattoos?, by David Richards, which I really think makes some good points on the subject. Here is what he saying:
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Returning to England after spending 2 ½ years abroad, I noticed many more people were displaying tattoos. A decade ago there were 300 tattoo parlors in Britain, now there are more than 1,500. The best estimate says 20% of Brits have a tattoo. The picture is the same across the Atlantic; 14% of all Americans have a tattoo, including 36 % of all 18-25 year olds and 40% of 26-40 year olds.
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The Illuminati use tattoos as a method of branding. This is seen by how they mark sex slaves. Many girls in porn movies have tattoos of Illuminati symbols, like this girl (left) in a video on a major porn site. Girls in different films have tattoos of Monarch butterflies and satanic symbols.However, I believe the primary purpose is to prepare the public for RFID implants and brainchips. To desensitize us to being branded, they are encouraging us to brand ourselves. That's why they promote tattoos. This desire to brand is also behind the push for brain chips, which is why people call them the 'mark of the beast'!
The big players of the transhumanism movement talk about the need to desensitize the public to implants. Dr. Keith Bolton, chief technology officer at industry leader Applied Digital Systems, said at a meeting in 2000:"Before there may have been resistance, but not anymore. People are getting used to implants. New century, new trend. We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul.'The desensitization campaign is multi-faceted, including having characters in TV shows with brain implants, like the Borg Collective in Star Trek who are equipped with brain implants that connect them to a collective consciousness, to the push for people to have their pets micro chipped.
[…]WHY DO PEOPLE GET TATTOOS?
Despite often looking superficial and silly, tattoos have a meaning for their wearers and are designed to communicate something. The Royal Society of Psychiatrists list seven main reasons that people get inked:
Association with sexual immaturity, rebellion problems with identity and need to assert independence
• In females, to enhance the feminine image or intended as social resistance
• To prove toughness
• Fashion
• Belonging to a group
• Religious reasons
• Exoskeletal defence
- See more at: http://www.henrymakow.com/#sthash.KrPhctSU.dpuf; or here:
http://henrymakow.com/2013/10/The-Illum ... ttoos.html
So Jesus was saying to those Ιουδαιους [Judeans] who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
John 8:31-32
The answer to this question will be based on the opinion of the person answering, and where they are at in their sanctification, and how much they have overcome the passions. Objectively speaking, the answer is no. The desire to alter the body and show concern for it, is rooted in self-love. God made the body exactly as he saw fit. Christians should not mutilate the body in anyway, because the body is supposed to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. I think deep down people already know the answers to many of their questions. When ever in doubt, or whenever you ignore your own conscience, ask yourself these questions:
Would Jesus and the apostles do it?
Would I want to be found this way, or doing a certain thing at the glorious coming of Christ?
The person who started this thread already knows tattoos are demonic and blasphemous. Look deep within, be honest with yourself, and follow your conscience.
EUDAEMONISM: a theory that the highest ethical goal is happiness and personal well-being. This is Renaissance and humanistic garbage. Orthodoxy is diametrically opposed to this kind of humanism. We are not here to look good and to live for ourselves. We are here to repent and struggle.
^ That is certainly true.
Good article posted by Nadir above, too. I was meaning to say that before, but forgot !
SolarFlare wrote:The answer to this question will be based on the opinion of the person answering, and where they are at in their sanctification, and how much they have overcome the passions. Objectively speaking, the answer is no. The desire to alter the body and show concern for it, is rooted in self-love. God made the body exactly as he saw fit. Christians should not mutilate the body in anyway, because the body is supposed to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. I think deep down people already know the answers to many of their questions. When ever in doubt, or whenever you ignore your own conscience, ask yourself these questions:
Would Jesus and the apostles do it?
Would I want to be found this way, or doing a certain thing at the glorious coming of Christ?
The person who started this thread already knows tattoos are demonic and blasphemous. Look deep within, be honest with yourself, and follow your conscience.
I started this thread because I read an account of a Coptic Christian from Egypt whose brother and 11 other Copts had been murdered. He said the murderers had singled out the victims by an identyfying tattoo.
Apparently, many Copts tattoo a small cross on the inside of their wrists, as a sign of their faith.
C'est tout!
The Copts are heretics. Follow the Orthodox saints. The cross should be stamped on the heart and mind, not the flesh.
