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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
I didn't say you did. I'm just pointing out that outside of our Pentecostal paradigm, it wouldn't occur to us to say they didn't wear an earring, because that would be the practical way of keeping the hole open. IMO, it's pointed out because, as usual, we have to find a way to sanitize the story. Not deliberately, mind you--it's just a habit.
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Im posting from the perspective that doesn't believe ear rings are wrong though :-)
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It's just a possibility--that's all--and not an illogical one. As I pointed out. 
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Sure, but we can't do any thing more than speculate. I agree. For all we know they stuck bamboo shoots through them
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I'm intimately familiar with this particular text, due to a sermon I heard preached many times called "I love my Master."  I agree with the interpretation that "forever" meant voluntary service "as long as he lives", because otherwise the ceremony would have been fairly insignificant.
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Me too. It was one of the first messages that ever really stuck in my mind that my first Pastor taught.