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Originally Posted by tbpew
IMO, this topic is like so many we engage here. When the bible does not state some prohibition in a verbatim manner, both ends of an opinion-defined continuim can argue from silence (and fill up several pages while doing so).
The NT is about motive; imaginations that are revealed from some abundance of our hearts.
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Ummm.. yeah, I see where you're going with this...
However, that rationale has been used to preach against a whole laundry list of things without biblical basis (such as red clothes, panty hose, shaving your legs, wearing cufflinks, drinking coca cola, wearing open-toed shoes, curling irons, etc etc).
When men wanted to make teach their own personal convictions into a doctrine or "standard', they resorted to that line of reasoning you just offered up.
Believe me, there is something that YOU do, or someone in your family, that a preacher somewhere can preach against.... and he'll claim it's based on some NT "principle", since he knows there's no scripture anywhere for him to base his teaching on.
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Too much of this stuff is based on judmentalism, flawed biblical analysis (or twisting of scripture), desire to maintain "the old landmarks" we got from the old timers, and/or a misplaced desire to "keep people saved" by making a ton of rules, even if the rules have no biblical support.