Encarta also relates tattooing to branding, which is used to display ownership:
"Branding: originally, searing of flesh with a hot iron to produce a scar with an easily recognizable pattern for identification or other purposes. Branding was formerly used on human beings... Branding today is often done with chemicals, tattooing, paint, tagging, or ear-notching... Used at first primarily as proof of ownership... "
Tattooing was a ritual common to pagan religions which involved the worship of other gods. An example of this practice is found in I Kings 18:28 where the prophets of Baal cut themselves in order to invoke their gods. To mark oneself in allegiance to a strange god violates what Jesus called "the first and greatest commandment" of the moral law -- "to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." [Matt. 22:37] False teachers who advocate tattooing or branding occult symbols on young people today must wrest the Scriptures (to their own destruction) attempting to justify that receiving such a mark is a Biblical concept.
Did you see my other post in that thread? It refers to ''K'' actually changing into an ''A'' when turned 90 degrees. It seems like in some of the pictures the ''K'' is upright in the branding, and in others it's tipped and actually an A with the crossbar at the top and not in the middle of the A thereby turning it also into the compass of the Great Architect.
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think- ago
Hi @amonymous, what exactly do you mean by 'priests of Baal/nimrod worship' in this context:
Do you mean the priests of Baal used brandings? Would you have a source for this?
Also, could you please elaborate on this:
Could you please add a source for 'the keystone that Q talks about' - those not familiar with Q here won't know what you mean.
Thank you!
migratorypatterns ago
Here's a response to:
The following addresses the Mark of the Beast:
think- ago
Terrific, migratory, thank you! :-)
OP, would you please consider addding MP's info to the body of your post? Thank you!
migratorypatterns ago
You're welcome.
Did you see my other post in that thread? It refers to ''K'' actually changing into an ''A'' when turned 90 degrees. It seems like in some of the pictures the ''K'' is upright in the branding, and in others it's tipped and actually an A with the crossbar at the top and not in the middle of the A thereby turning it also into the compass of the Great Architect.