Posted on 06/02/2012 9:36:08 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
You mean with out all the air brushing of the photo’s.
As is Scotty McCreery in last year’s Idol. McCreery comes from a very strong Christian family.
What’s that, an all-in-one combo swimsuit and evening gown?
I think Jordan Sparks is also a Christian, as well as Reuben Studdard.
Try reading the verse in context.
14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
The passage is clearly talking about PARTNERING with unbelievers.
I find it interesting you mention this verse, written by Paul, who referred himself as the Apostle to the Gentiles. Can't be an Apostle to unbelievers if one seperates themselves from them. One must go out amongst them.
Jesus' own words in John 17
13 But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
See #25 on John 17
Yes
I’m with you Brother.
I’m also reminded of the Biblical story of Esther, the Jewish orphan girl who ascended to queen of Persia. She became the wife of King Xerxes after a competition among all the beautiful young virgins in the empire, for which they spent 12 months of beautification.
God used that beauty contest to put Esther in a position where she could save her people. So who’s to say God would not use a beauty pageant to put young Brittany in a position where she can serve His kingdom purpose?
As for the rest of her I tried not to look. Christian? Maybe so, but she has an interesting interpretation of a biblical dress code.
“True beauty comes from within.”
Such a shame she can’t mouth this lame pageant platitude during the bikini portion.
Until the late 20th century a woman claiming to be a devout Christian who thought it necessary to demonstrate her “virtues” by getting tarted up and parading herself in shiny underwear for ogling millions would be mocked, at best, and rightly so.
Her breasts look fake. Pass
They need part of the competition to be without makeup. Many of these so called beauties are merely good face painters.
I guess those girls don't eat and drink winning and glamor and physical beauty from wake-up to lights out.
I'm surely misled to think that I might look upon that woman and not commit adultery WITH her.
I'm SO blind.
I appreciate you saying this, real christian, followers of Christ do not run around half naked, that would be inappropriate and not honoring our bodies as temples of the Holy God.
She won’t win
Knowing she is a Christian, they will ask her about homosexual marriage and then mau-mau her for giving the wrong answer
She has “liked me” 100 times on Facebook and I’m not even a participant in Facebook...
There are many who think it is a sin to work on Sunday but Tim Tebow worked on Sundays last fall and made an impact on the lives of countless people he couldn't have reached accept as an NFL quarterback.
So don't be so narrow-minded. If this woman believes that a small amount of exhibitionism will help her ultimately reach others with the gospel, I wish her well. God has used prostitutes to do His will in the past - why not beauty queens?
Seriously? Only one out of 50 is a Christian?
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