New dress code for Apostolic women

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by Esaias

And if holiness has nothing to do with clothes, then Christians can be holy and sanctified with their butt cheeks hanging out their spandex short-shorts.

Right?

Well we should be able to find some middle ground.

We do not need to go extremes, one way or another.

[houston]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Yes dear sister, this is a foolish post, but I made it to make a point.

My point is that if clothline preachers, want to equate holiness with clothes then they should have no problem declaring muslim women or nuns holier than the women in their churches.

A few things,,,, why did you bump this after almost 3 years?

And... Muslim women aren't holy because of their garb. A person can not be holy without God dwelling in them.


So... it is the Spirit of God working on the inside of a Christian that is manifest outwardly in a persons life.

Although... many have embraced extremes in their attempt to interpret how holiness is manifest in a believers life.

You'll also run across those that perform holiness to gain approval of God, which is another extreme.

On the other side... there are those that denounce legalism (it is what it is) and women for some reason get butchy haircuts. I never understood that one.

I do not believe in the clothesline. I do feel that their intentions are well, and that they seek uniformity so that there is no confusion as to what is expected.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by houston

On the other side... there are those that denounce legalism (it is what it is) and women for some reason get butchy haircuts. I never understood that one.

It's because they have no men in their life who refuse to.put up with such nonsense.

I do not believe in the clothesline. I do feel that their intentions are well, and that they seek uniformity so that there is no confusion as to what is expected.

A standard of modesty is needed to repress the tendency to become whores and whoremongers, plain and simple. Clothing standards can't do it by themselves, but get rid of a clothing standard and before long you have WalMart and all the evil that entails. No clothing standard inevitably results in slobbiness, shabbiness, and a deterioration in self-perception from one of elite nobility to trailer park trash, with confirming lifestyle choices soon to follow.

It's a holistic thing, requiring a holistic culture of God-centered identity as the sons and daughters of Universal Royalty. "Dress like riff-raff and you'll start acting like riff-raff."

All riff-raff, by the way, is fundamentally matriarchal, feminized, cuckolded, and semi-homosexual.

[houston]

Lay off the shrooms. ��

[houston]

Really, maybe I'll get back to that after I had some sleep.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

OK
We can not allow other religions to outdo the Apostolic women in holiness.

For a while I thought about decreeing that from now on Apostolic Women were to wear the nuns habit with sunglasses.

For not even the alluring eyes of women can be shown.

Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.

So that men may not lust after her beauty we must go beyond the nuns' habit.

Therefore I hereby decree that all Apostolic Women are to wear burqas, with dark sunglasses, wear dark long gloves and long dark socks or stockings.

Anyone who does not obey this mandate has a rebellious spirit of disobedience. she is not submitting to my authority.

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

25. eyelids] Painted probably after the Eastern fashion. Comp. 2 Kings 9:30. “They paint or blacken the eyelids with kǒhl, and prolong the application in a descending pencil, so as to lengthen and reduce the eye in appearance to what is called almond shape. The practice is extremely ancient, for such painted eyes are found in the oldest Egyptian tombs. It imparts a peculiar brilliancy to the eye and a languishing amorous cast to the whole countenance.” Thomson, Land and Book, p. 461.

Proverbs 6:25 has nothing to do with just plain eyes, It is specifically talking about the practice and application of eye makeup.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by houston

Lay off the shrooms. ��

Well, I guess you told him?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

And if holiness has nothing to do with clothes, then Christians can be holy and sanctified with their butt cheeks hanging out their spandex short-shorts.

Right?

I never get a straight answer on this from those who are anti-standards.

How little can someone put on an it still be ok?

Adam and Eve though belts made of leaves were fine?

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

I never get a straight answer on this from those who are anti-standards.

How little can someone put on an it still be ok?

Adam and Eve though belts made of leaves were fine?

Don't know how far I have time to go with this, but I will try.
How little can someone put on and still be ok?
To cover the loins.
It comes down to culture in which the person lives in.
Just because God made coverings of skins does not determine what God covered with those skins. History and scripture only speak of the shame of a women being uncovered around the loins area, up till the second and third century. Are we forgetting all the art in Europe's churches that depict women with their breast showing. If this was wrong do you think that this would have been allowed as art all through out Europe?
Scripture speaks many times of girding up their loins. Which was to pull the garments up between the legs leaving the legs exposed up to the crotch.
Then you have the robes of the priest that evidently were short enough that God commanded Moses to make breeches that they did not uncover their nakedness when serving in the tabernacle.
All that aside, I have been out of conservative churches for over 17 years now. And I have never seen the degree of unholy dress as is alluded to in the churches we have attended. This ranges from AOG to nondenominational churches.
As for butch hair cuts on women with no men in their lives? My wife has what would be termed as a butch hair cut, as does my daughters. All with men in their lives. It works for them.
"No clothing standard inevitably results in slobbiness, shabbiness, and a deterioration in self-perception from one of elite nobility to trailer park trash, with confirming lifestyle choices soon to follow." I have seen more slobbiness and shabbiness, in holiness churches than main stream churches, it seems the jean skirt is the go to dress for holiness women, and baggy clothes look dowdy rather than glorifying God.

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by Esaias

And if holiness has nothing to do with clothes, then Christians can be holy and sanctified with their butt cheeks hanging out their spandex short-shorts.

Right?

Oh my!!!