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Originally Posted by warrior81680
Oh, I see where you are going now.
Hmmm...
Do you think Jesus wore immodest clothing (being LIKE them) when He was trying to win them?
I'm sure I know your answer, but...
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There were a lot of cultural customs that were practiced in that day that would be immodest in our culture today.
For instance, people didn't wear underclothes back then. It was common to fish naked or with hardly anything on.
There are cultures today where, according to our culture, they are immodest, but if you teach them to cover themselves, it would be insulting to their culture. In some cultures, women being topless is common and it's their culture. Men wearing only a loincloth is modest in their culture.
Even in our own culture, if we compare how we dress today to 100 years ago, we are immodest in our dress, especially the women, yet we see nothing wrong with it today.
Modesty is defined by each culture. Teaching modesty instead of a clothesline will not steer you wrong, no matter where you preach.
I believe this is why you never read of Paul preaching clothesline to the churches he visited. There was no way he could do that.