Isaiah 3 and jewelry...

[rdp]

Originally Posted by Maximilian

RDP, God not only "permitted" or "looked the other way" on jewelry, he himself used it for his bride!

He also told "His Bride" to "put OFF (not ON) thy ornaments.....". Remember that bit about "consistency"? Regarding your pet verse, He also put nose rings, fine linen, badger's skins on them. Can we now do the same? Ughh, ya' might wanna' check out the definition of "consistency" before you talk to ME about it!

You aren't consistent. You seem to show God was cool with jewels in the OT, but in the NT, now we are bound by the law of no jewelry.

No, I never said God was "cool" w/ ornamentation in the OT. Jewels have visual pleasure/beauty, which is precisely His point in appealling to them in Ezek. 16, etc. They reflect the beauty of His Mercy, but he isn't in ANY way, shape, or form endorsing ostentatious ornamentation on His people. Fallacy of Assumption.

Ughh, have you not seen how many times I've quoted from OT passages which demonstrate His displeasure w/ it? And Paul is the one who plainly stated "NOT with gold, pearls...." Did I quote that from a pentecostal handbook, or is it in the Bible....written to the NT church??

Not only to you sound backwards, but you've come on this forum going on and on and on how Jewelry is an abomination and using OT scriptures to prove that. You fail the consistency check.

And you fail to understand God's intents in Ezek. 16, etc. Then, when I ask you if we can now be arrayed in badger's skins, fine linen, nose rings, etc.....you would reject that, yet I'M the one who's "inconsistent"?? Further more, you try to erase the words "not with gold, pearls..." from the text. Do you not fear GOD?

Mike brings up the ol' Ezek. 16 argument, then turns right around & says, 'Well it's different today regarding nose rings, badger's skins, etc.". Hint: Then drop Ezek. 16 if we cannot apply it to us today!

Sheesh, you guys just don't get it!