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Originally Posted by JTULLOCK
I think that you are fishing here. I am more a lib than a con, but I do not critisize cons for reading the OT when referring to standards. I do think that it is a out of context thing when people talk about standards. Although I do follow most of them. The church today can not be a church with out the older generations no more than the Bible can be the word of God without the OT.
I just think that the Cons, as a majority, are trying to box the Libs in here. I think that most of the Cons are trying to hard to defend the standards thing. Some would say the Libs are doing the same for the money thing. Maybe. But ALL the Cons get their shorts, I mean pants in a wad when some tells them that they are taking scripture out of context about the dress code. I hate the word standards cause dress code is not standards. Standards is a life style to live by. Not a set of "do not's" but of "you can's." You can obstain from premarital sex, drugs, etc.
Holiness does not equal standards. Standards, not dress code, help to protect your holiness. A dress code is ok for the modesty thing. The Cons have taken it beyond modesty. They have made it heaven or hell and not modest and immodest. Women can be more modest or as modest in pants than a skirt. This not a standards thread, but the Cons always make things about "defending" the look of a person. When the intent is the immoral part.
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Wasn't really attacking you personally but it seems to prevail among charismatics... and some liberal leaning folks...
I don't have a problem defending Biblical Standards set forth in the Word...