Hair, sleeves, pantsuits, jewelry, and makeup

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I believe you misunderstood me. Why? Because of fast typing on my part.

"...the Bible does NOT say jewelry of any kind in any situation is sinful. But then neither is homicide, since we want to get technical here."

The Bible does not say... what? That jewelry of any kind in any situation is sinful. Meaning: the Bible does not teach, declare, say that "ANY type of jewelry whatsoever is sinful in ANY situation/circumstance", etc.

Ah, I see where the confusion is. I should have done the following:

"...the Bible does not say "Any (and all) kind(s) of jewelry is sinful in any (and all) situation(s)." The lack of quotes is what caused the misunderstanding, I believe.

I was NOT saying "the Bible doesn't say any kind of jewelry is sinful, nor that any kind of homicide is sinful." Rather, I was saying "The Bible does not say, 'Any kind of jewelry is sinful, as well as any kind of homicide.'"

My bad.

Blame it on the ambiguity inherent in English grammar. Did he make a hamburger with cheese? Or did he make a hamburger by using cheese as some kind of tool? lol

Oh well. At any rate we got that all cleared up. That really was a rabbit trail anyway. The main thing is that we still do not have ANY scripture that says jewelry is in any way sinful. We may have some preachers saying it. We may have saints saying it. But we don’t have scripture saying so.

And the scripture you post is no exception. It may have been a Freudian slip Esaias, but what you said is true. At least so far, we have no scripture that even remotely indicates that wearing jewelry is a sin.

What we DO have is strong evidence through multiple passages that indicate that God considers jewelry a blessing. Your reference in Hosea is another such scripture. It also is an allegory. Like the example that I quoted in Ezekiel and the two references of Paul and Peter.

Read the first two chapters of Hosea and I believe you’ll see what I’m referring to. I can’t get too deep into it right now. I will try to do so later.

Hint: Who did the adulterous woman get her silver and gold from?