I don't care what she does. It's not going to bother me one way or the other, because I am secure in the Lord, but just being there has caused a controversy. THAT is why she should have stayed somewhere else........
Attending an event there is one thing, but staying at Hooters was, an unwise decision. Secular people will see this as their chance to call Christians "hypocrites" just like the SF Fag Rag has done. ;o)
1Th 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. KJV
Good point, and one that I thought of as well. I think the verse you are referring to says: “Repay no one evil for evil, but be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.” But the reality is that many people do think that eating a hamburger is wrong, because they are Vegans or whatever. We, as Christians, don’t have to stop eating meat because some people think we should.
The reaction here has basically been “so what” regarding Mrs. Huckabees trip. I think that will be the standard reaction among most everyone except for those who are actively anti-christian, and I think we can safely ignore those folks. If we conformed to their image of what we should do we would be conforming to their view of a narrow, meanspirited, and joyless Christianity. They’d have us live in that way — and then declare us wrong for doing it!
P.S. I don’t speak Greek but regarding 1 Thess. 5:22, the New King James, the NIV, the ESV and all the modern translations I looked at basically say “Abstain from every form of evil.” The meaning of the term appearance has changed I think in the language.
Here is an excerpt from an explanation of 1 Thessalonians 5:22 in the KJV from one source:
“God chose to employ human language—words—to communicate His will to people. Even though this medium of conveyance is quite adequate to achieve such an objective, misunderstanding sometimes can occur. One example of confusion in seen in Paul’s admonition to the Thessalonian Christians: “Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22). This verse frequently is used to assert that Christians should avoid engaging in actions that appear to be improper or sinful—even though those actions may not actually be sinful. However, the 1611 translators of the King James Version were attempting to convey the idea that one should abstain from evil in whatever form it may appear. Newer translations help to clarify the underlying Greek text by translating the verse, “Abstain from every form of evil” (NKJV). The verse is banning the practice of sin/evil in whatever form it occurs—whether lying, stealing, murdering, etc.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/1797