In the book of Galatians Paul confronts peter. He does this because he is worried that the gospel that should be taught wasn't being taught but that the Jews were teaching a false gospel. This was shown by the fact that in Galatians they kept insisting that to be Christian you HAVE to be circumcised.


Gentiles were considered unclean because they were not. But Paul still associated with them and ministered to them. So did Peter, until people were around then he did not. Some people would take this and apply to hypocrisy. But I see something different from this book of the bible.


Some churches believe that if you want to be Christian you cannot have tattoos. Just like the Jews believed in order to be Christian you HAVE to be circumcised. To defend the tattoo controversy people use the passage 19:28 in Leviticus, "  Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord." But in context this is referring to Pagan rituals. It is God preventing witch craft. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure most tattoos aren't used for witch craft. Our churches need to learn to focus on the real gospel. Not false rules that people make up based on a verse that's not even in context.

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