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Originally Posted by Pliny

Back again to the Hebrew young men being assimilated. You apparently have no concept as to what assimilation means if you are trying to say again that these young men were assimilated.
Assimilation means:
to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust:

What does the evidence suggest? Based on your logic, the Hebrews refused the kings meat because they were assimilating into Babylonian culture. They also refused to bow to the image because they were assimilating. Please prove this is why they did what they did. please prove that they were thrown into a fiery furnace because they had assimilated into the Babylonian culture. You can't because it did not happen. They refused to be assimilated and maintained their Jewish identity. That identity allowed them to wear pants without compromising that identity. On the other hand, women did not. Where their clothes came from has nothing to do with it. Maybe they were from Judea maybe they were not. The fact is they refused to assimilate, as you suggest, and they maintained their Jewish identity in the face of death. That identity allowed them to wear pants. No demonstrate where godly women wore pants. You cannot do this simple thing and instead grasp for anything, real or imagined, to try to wiggle and squirm your way as far away from the truth as you can get. Yet, the Bible still demonstrates that godly men wore pants. Godly women did not.

This last statement is so convoluted I am embarrassed for you.


They maintained their diet and their faith because that was all they could maintain? You do know that their diet is part of their faith right? You do know this don't you? You do know that maintaining their faith meant maintaining all the Law and prophets right? What would be left out of keeping their faith according to you? Then, you say they drew the line at bowing to an idol? THAT is part of keeping their faith! What are you trying to prove here? That your logic is so convoluted that you cannot keep a coherent thought for more than a sentence? If so, congratulations. You succeeded. Are you trying to say that it is sin for anyone to wear pants? If so, you will need to do a much better job than this "shoddy" piece of intellectualism.

Please go back and rethink this. It really makes no sense at all.

You have Bible for the three Hebrews refusing the Babylonian meat. You have Bible for the three Hebrews refusing to bow to an idol. They were issued Babylonian names, do you have Bible illustrating that they refused these names? Do you have Bible illustrating that they refused Babylonian clothing? Or... are you taking a leap of logic and arguing from silence based merely on their refusal of meat and idolatry?