Posted on 06/09/2014 11:09:15 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
So Western culture is synonymous with God's word or what God says is acceptable attire? Nope.
God gave us a standard that transcends time, place and culture, and yet guides us Biblically, as He knew that there would be differences in attire and such even among Christians.
The Lord only said that men should not wear women's clothing and vice versa, and yet men and women both wore robes in Moses time. Oh, the horror. And they both wore ear rings and nose rings, etc. Oh the humanity. God help Sarah with her jewelry problem. /sarcasm.
The point was, is that men robes were different from women's and vice versa, thus doing what God commanded.
Women and men can both wear pants as long as they are different in style from each other. This is Biblical, morally based, and a common sense approach.
This follows the Biblical pattern, whereas your Western-based women-must-wear-dresses-and skirts standard does not.
Did women start wearing robes in Moses time as an egalitarian statement? We don;t know.
Secondly, while that may have been then, women today don't necessarily wear pants as an egalitarian statement just like Scotsmen don't wear kilts for an egalitarian statement.
I have heard the Dugger’s say over and over it is a matter of modesty. The younger girls wear leggings and the niece and grandmother wear slacks, as well as the future MIL of Jill Dugger.
Watch out... we all know that Scotsmen started wearing kilts as an egalitarian statement, too. /s
Pants can be modest, too.
Otherwise Godly men wouldn’t be allowed to wear them.
Scotsmen don’t wear kilts for an egalitarian statement.”
Well back in the Braveheart day, no doubt that was true.
Today’s Scotland? Yeesh.
I saw it; he pushed the young man's hand off his daughter's back. I'm not sure why any slick moves were needed. The girl is in her 20s, and the guy didn't even have his arm around her.
Women started wearing pants when they started doing jobs that historically pertained men. Look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_wearing_trousers_in_the_Western_world_after_1900
Why did Christians get this back when America was a good place, and they don’t when America is an Obamanation?
Do you think God cares how people dress? Do you think Satan does?
Despite to poor grammar. Goodness! I need to slow down.
Thank you. I saw that a couple years ago.
A.) Men and women can both wear pants, as long as men don’t wear womens pants and vice versa.
Well Obama Fails at this point for sure...
I agree. And, dresses can fit too quick, as my father used to say.
Let’s say a woman is reading through her bible. She hasn’t been tainted by neo-evangelicalism. She’s just reading it. She comes to the part where it says, “men don’t dress like women, women don’t dress like men.” She lives in Indiana. What would she think is women’s garments? She’s been to restrooms and knows how our culture works. She has no way of knowing what people wore in Moses time because God doesn’t explicitly reveal it. He just says, don’t mix attire. When God wrote that, He knew that woman would read it in Indiana in 2014.
It is cultural, it’s always been cultural. Just like cursing. God didn’t tell us what curse words are, but we know what they are.
True. I believe that’s why God didn’t give us exact details of how to work out His commands.
Protection from what? A hand placed lightly on her back?
Seriously?
I’d have to be really fond of the young man for him to survive a move like that on one of my girls. By survive I mean, still courting. I’m sure the daughter knew it was coming and was glad when Jim Bob did it.
A lot has changed in our culture over the years.
A move?
Sorry, that's just ridiculous.
Goodness sake folks, they are not telling you what and how to wear stuff, so why not just recognize their family love and chosen standards and leave them alone!
I know that every on e of those loved children will eventually make their own decisions about dress etc, and they will just fine for it all.
For the record, if more families behaved like they do ,America would likely be much safer, respected and respectable.
Harrumph! Good thing you are not neighbors, otherwise you’d likely be calling Arkansas Child Services on them.
You raise your kids the way you want.
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