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Re: Welcome Fellow Christians - Steve Pixler 8/17/
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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
OK, you don't know, and your information on this subject is limited.
Thank you, that's all I was looking to find out.
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You are correct. What I do know for certain is that the garments worn by male and females in biblical times were very similar. That has been conssitent with what I have read throughout my life when i have seen material on the subject.
I believe that is why modern Pentecostals rationalization of forbidding women to wear pants is most times simply given as a cultural one. They will point out that in Western culture pants are associated with men and dresses with women. You may recall conservatives even using the universal signs for men's and women's restrooms as "proof".
Of course they totally ignore the cultural shift sine WWII and the fact that for many decades now women wear pants nearly as much as men do and that the cut of pants for women is clearly different than that of men so there is still a distinction between the sexes.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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