Comments on: John Piper on Tattoos and Body-Piercing

By: omar

omar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:57:51 +0000

well i dont know about this but im a every sunday at church christian and i got 4 tattoos 1 is 1 kings 3,luke 15,matthew 23,and ecclesiastes 5.bottom line is that those chapters mean alot to me and god knows and i think he doesnt care cause in deuteronomy 11 says that to write them in ur doorpost and gates,if you keep his commandment the days of u and ur children shall be numerous.and i dont remember where it states that the body is the temple for the holy spirit.if this is so then im good cause i have written them as it has been written anyways at that time it was againgst god to do it because you would not write the word of god on yourself i dont know why but i would have done them in that time to honor my god and all his splendor oh yeah i also have the tetragrammatron written in hebrew as a trademark or as a copyright

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:53:58 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: dennyrburk

dennyrburk — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:48:34 +0000

Daniel,

The complementarian position in no way depends on this interpretation of Philippians 2:6. If I’m right, however, it is one more piece of the complementarian puzzle.

Thanks,
Denny

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:04:10 +0000

Denny,

I’m just curious after reading Jim Hamilton’s review. This is kinda off topic.

Is the main advantage of this translation that it supports the complementarian position?

I’m just learning Greek so I really don’t know what I’m talking about. I tend to accept the opinion of the majority of translators.

Just wondering.

By: dennyrburk

dennyrburk — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:56:43 +0000

Very funny.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:46:31 +0000

I think what Denny is trying to say is that he has a tattoo of an articular infinitive.

Barry

By: Bryan L

Bryan L — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:21:02 +0000

It seemed kind of a weird comment about tattoos : )

Thanks

By: dennyrburk

dennyrburk — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:47:52 +0000

Oops, Bryan! I was messing around with something and didn’t mean to leave that posted there.

To answer your question, I don’t know how many people agree with my view. Jim Hamilton just gave a favorable review of my book where I made that case. You can read it here: http://jimhamilton.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/denny-burk-on-articular-infinitives-in-the-greek-of-the-new-testament/.

Thanks,
Denny

By: Bryan L

Bryan L — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:42:57 +0000

Did you mean to post this here??

Either way I noticed you wrote “The exegetical result is that it is grammatically possible to regard “form of God” and “equality with God”‘ not as synonymous phrases, but as phrases with distinct meanings.”

Are you saying your interpretation is just possible and not necessary? At first I thought you were arguing that it was necessary, but you seem to only be saying here that it’s valid.

Has anyone before you taken your view?
Has anyone since adopted your views?

Thanks.

Blessings,
Bryan L

By: dennyrburk

dennyrburk — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:04:03 +0000

Oops!