If you have to wear make-up to be accepted....

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by n david

This thread just got weird....er

No doubt

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by ILG

I know a kid from the library I used to work at. He really does have breasts and a high voice, but he's a guy. He looks like he would like to shrink into the walls and disappear from this world. The poor kid will hardly talk to anyone.

Amen, I understand the whole hormonal imbalance and gynecomastia, but the individual you speak of isn't dressing like a female.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

God said all the fat belong to the Lord. The majority of the time in scripture when the word fat is used it is in a positive light. Just saying.
Can all you fat folks say amen.

Thought about you last night, Bro. Epley, when I read this passage of scripture - Psalm 128.

Without reading glasses:

"Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine and as big as the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table."

With reading glasses:

"Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Amen, I understand the whole hormonal imbalance and gynecomastia, but the individual you speak of isn't dressing like a female.

What if he felt more comfortable dressing like a female though? What if he IS a female and we don't even know it??

[votivesoul]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

Does HE have breasts?

Before we play, can you tell me if you would allow HIM to work the Sunday school, and if "some" of the saints refuse to allow their children to color under HIS watchful eye, do you tell them to leave your congregation, or suck it up while keeping their eyes on Jesus?

Perhaps he does. I didn't notice at first.

And just for the record, my questions were potentially just as rhetorical as anything. But I appreciate the answers.

My point in posting these pics was to show the double-standards so many who are against standards hold on to. Most would give a pass to the very last woman, and maybe to the rock star, but almost none would give a pass to any of the first four, because they've crossed the line into gender-bending, which is an abomination to God.

But if a man have long hair, it is a shame to him. But if a woman have short hair, hey, it's just her right.

If a woman wears make-up, no big deal. But if a man wears some make-up, then he's a pervert and sick.

No standards people want us to accept all the women in the church that don't hold to the standards we believe the Bible says they should keep, and yet not a one of them would allow a man with long, flowing hair, jewelry, make-up and some kind of dress/skirt on (even if originally designed for a man), to lift a finger at their church, let alone continue to attend (unless repentance and a change of heart was just around the corner).

Women can get away with it, but men have to look like men: short hair, no jewelry, no make-up, obvious masculine, meant for a man, clothing. Why? Because it's cultural (i.e. NOT BIBLICAL).

For the woman, it's all extra-Biblical standards. For the man, it's just life. Women aren't in trouble with their Savior, but men dare to look a little feminine, and their labeled freaks and pedophiles.

This is called misandry, folks, if anyone cares to know. And it's wrong. Just like hypocrisy.

[Evang.Benincasa]

This man walks into your assembly, professing himself to be a believer:




He is sporting this tattoo, his hair is cut he has no facial hair, wears long pants but wears a t-shirt, but desires to be over your Sunday school especially the young children, because he is an artist in crayon.

What does he have to change?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by ILG

What if he felt more comfortable dressing like a female though? What if he IS a female and we don't even know it??

Not everything that some people are comfortable with should interfere with what your comfortable with.

[KeptByTheWord]

Men have always worn paint (makeup if you want to call it that)... lol

[KeptByTheWord]

It goes back to the matter of the heart. For what purpose are you doing something... that is what really matters.

If you apply makeup or camouflage paint as a male because you are going hunting or are in war, what is wrong with that?

If, as a female, you use makeup much like adding a belt or a scarf to your outfit to compliment your attire, what is wrong with that?

If however, you are applying makeup to look like a "whore" and attract the gaze and stare and attention of other men, then that is a problem. If as a man, you are putting on makeup because you want to look like a woman, that is a problem.

The heart issue remains the key note here, imo.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Thought about you last night, Bro. Epley, when I read this passage of scripture - Psalm 128.

Without reading glasses:

"Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine and as big as the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table."

With reading glasses:

"Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.