Isaiah 3 and jewelry...

[TGBTG]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Let me add a question that maybe Jeffery will help with?

Is costly apparel ever right?

Costly is pretty relative. Someone people deem a $50 shirt expensive while someone else would think it is not. So who determines costly and by what standards?

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by TGBTG

Costly is pretty relative. Someone people deem a $50 shirt expensive while someone else would think it is not. So who determines costly and by what standards?

But is costly apparel over ok to wear? Whatever it is.

"What I'm getting at that if If 1 tim 2 is not against jewelry as many say then it's not against costly apparel as well. If costly apparel is wrong at anytime then should the other items listed be as well?"

[Maximilian]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

But is costly apparel over ok to wear? Whatever it is.

"What I'm getting at that if If 1 tim 2 is not against jewelry as many say then it's not against costly apparel as well. If costly apparel is wrong at anytime then should the other items listed be as well?"

And based on the reading, I still think it's the wrong question.

Modesty exhorts us to appropriate for the occasion. There certainly are times when "costly apparel" (whatever that means exactly) is adequate.

But what "costly apparel" means in our context, and what it specifically referred to in the Ephesian church are two different things. We have to ask first what it meant in their time/place/culture, then we can decide what it means to us.

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Maximilian

And based on the reading, I still think it's the wrong question.

Modesty exhorts us to appropriate for the occasion. There certainly are times when "costly apparel" (whatever that means exactly) is adequate.

But what "costly apparel" means in our context, and what it specifically referred to in the Ephesian church are two different things. We have to ask first what it meant in their time/place/culture, then we can decide what it means to us.

Go to go so this is a drive bye:

Wouldn't costly apparel be clothes that is expensive? I know, what is that, but it would like gluttony in the bible, it doesn't say how much to eat, but our conscience speaks to us when we enter excess.

I will look more at the word modesty later.


appreciate the input.