[Phebe Carlyle]

Re: My brother wants to get a Jesus tattoo, how can I stop him?

I don't know how to express the deep sadness and anger I have after reading the first couple pages of this post. So many of you believe you have the complete understanding of what Jesus Christ and God would want...yet you clearly don't have an understanding of what you're talking about. And please don't think I'm someone just getting on this to discredit anything you're working towards, but I honestly have tears in my eyes just hoping you will one day truly understand. I see many of you saying, "he will be damned/go to hell" for putting a tattoo on his BODY, which shows what you are solely focused on. THE MATERIAL. Jesus' entire teaching was meant to DETACH you from the material world. Why the piffle are so many of you ignorant and blind to this. Saying "when he dies he will surely go to hell". CAN YOU THINK!!! At this moment...if you truly analyze it with the beautiful mind God has blessed you with. You will realize that there is no past, there is no future, there is only the NOW. Therefor, heaven and hell do not exist AFTER you leave THIS material realm, they exist in the HERE AND NOW. You can either make this a living hell (focused solely on the MATERIAL aspects of life, claiming you know what God or Jesus would want someone to do)...or you can rise above the material, understanding that God is currently in the background of all your fruitless thoughts and actions, and learn to listen to what He is saying, which will bring you to a heaven right here and now. Everything in the Bible, I believe, is a metaphor for your life ON EARTH. Not after. So basically, SHUT THE piffle UP talking about someone marking their FLESH. FOCUSING ON THE FLESH IS WHAT WILL PUT YOU IN HELL! There are only two emotions in life; FEAR and LOVE. Judging someone is an attribute of FEAR. And if you think im just talking shit, why dont I let Jesus conclude everything I've been saying: "You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, YOUR BODY IS DEAD because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the BODY, you will live, 14because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. -GOODNIGHT ALL YOU FALSE PROPHETS

Well hello,

Do you know what really annoys me? People who go out of their way to flout the rules of a forum, by NOT posting an introduction in the INTRODUCTION FORUM.

Also, it is more than apparent that you are one of these "new age" cherry-picking faux believers in God following a FALSE interpretation of His word.

YIC

Mrs Phebe Dewitt