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DinkyDoo · Mar 1, 2003

Originally posted by Abiyah:

Originally posted by DinkyDoo:
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Originally posted by Abiyah:
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You are very defensive of such people, apparently,
so you do not recognize that I was merely stating
what I saw and my shock at seeing it in a
Methodist church.

Regardless, since you brought it up, I will answer.
I came from a church where some of the women
religiously wore only skirts and had their long
hair up in buns; no makeup, no jewelry, etc. But
we young women in that church saw the
hypocrisy and refused to follow in their footsteps,
as they opening squinted their eyes at us, openly
criticized new converts for not seeing things as
they did, and openly ran people away from the
Lord in order to preserve "the standard."

Haughtily, they would say when another left
because of their attitudes, "Oh, well! They must
not have been one of us, or they would still be
here." Mention was made of the "wolves" in the
congregation being gone and the expectation of
revival in their absense.

And when people did leave, they would avoid
them on the street. No one called. "Friendships"
that were supposedly solid suddenly dissolved.

My daughter is presently going through some
hurt and anger over this very situation, having
more recently left than I, because a family
member (my daughter-in-law's brother) is
getting married soon, and they neglected to
include her in the shower's invitation list, As Well
As The Mother and Sisters Of The Groom!

One can wear their sleeves covering their hands if
the wish, wear skirts covering their toes, wear their
hair in little buns all they want, and it will get them
No Points with our God, especially if their Hearts
are Evil, Critical, and Selfish.

NO WHERE in the Bible does it say that women
must wear skirts; that is a very modern idea never
imagined by biblical writers. No Where does the
Bible say not to wear jewelry; rather, the wearing
of jewelry is praised, if anything. No Where does
it tell women to wear their hair in buns, men to wear
suiits and ties (or not wear ties). This is all extra-
biblical stuff and makes No Points with our God.

But the Bible has plenty to say about loving
people and about kindness, messages often
missed by people who are so hung up on man-
made rules as the above group and other groups
I have been around who are the same.

It just so happens that there were several people
in the Methodist group who were the same -- a
fact I had not intended to mention before. I had my
very own uninvited encounters wih them.

I have also learned that people who fall back on
extra-biblica rules often have more than the above
evils to hide. We have seen evils up close.
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Sorry if you thought I was defensive. I am not a skirt only kinda gal so I wouldn't have anything to be defensive about about anyway. There are some woman who are convicted to wear only skirts, thats ok and there is nothing wrong with that.

Great peace have they which love thy law and NOTHING shall offend them!

It just seems like you were putting all women who wear only skirts in a box. Not all of them are as judgemental as you think.

PS. I bet the bible authors NEVER imagined woman wearing bikini's, showing cleavage, much less think modern as we are. You must admit, the society we live in is NOT modest at all!
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Abiyah · Mar 2, 2003

Well, Dinky, with that I agree. One gentleman (in
every sense of that word) tried to start a thread
regarding modesty, but it went nowhere. Perhaps
it was my fault, because the lack of it is one of
my pet peeves. I think, though, that the most
offensive part of that lack is that some of the
worst cases I have seen have been in churches.
8o(

Maverick · Mar 2, 2003

Dinky Doo said, Great peace have they which love thy law and NOTHING shall offend them!

AArgh, I have heard that misquoted so many times by an IFB preacher that I nearly puked each time he said it. Nothing shall cause the people to stumble or stray from the law if they love the law, but does not mean that they cannot be offended by anything or anyone.

"A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city..."

I can be offended by your attire and Paul said that he would not eat meat ever if it made his brother to stumble. We are free but not alowed to use our liberty selfishly.

Indeed, if you know people are offended by your attire you are under responsibility to change even if you think you are right per Romans 14 and 15, not tell them to shove it because you are free. Wear your pants at home but not to church if you know that someone is offended by your pants.

The verse you quoted cannot be used as a justification of what we do and a condemnation of those who disapprove or are offended because they obviously donot love the law if they are offended.

Do some more study Dinky Doo and God bless and enrich you as you do so.

I am free to wear my cowboy clothes to church, but my pastor feels staff should wear a coat and tie. Hence I wear a Western coat and tie, but I gave up my liberty to wear jeans and such so my pastor and others would not be offended. I limit my liberty out of love not flaunt it.

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