If You Have To Wear Make Up To Be Rejected...

[houston]

Originally Posted by Abiding Now

Hmmmm...the Pharisees paid 10%, do we have to pay more than 10%? JW

And they fasted twice a week.

[Abiding Now]

Originally Posted by houston

And they fasted twice a week.

Well looks like I'm going to be counted as UN-righteous.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Luke

I agree that hoiness is an inward work in that nothing you or I or do not do makes us holy. We are made holy by the blood of Jesus through faith at the point of entire sanctification when our hearts are purified and our carnal nature is removed. This is holiness to be separate from all sin. Not from sinners but from inward sin and practiced sin. Standards are not holiness but righteousness. However I do believe that we should preach on standards just as we should preach on any other bible doctrine. Standards should not be our only message and I would not even say it should be our dominate message. Rather we should preach freedom form the bondage of sin. True holiness in not bondage it is freedom.

Amen. I do agree with the bolded!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

Jesus clothed the demoniac after delivering the man from possession.

Clothing had to have mattered in some way or form to the Lord or He wouldn't have provided the man with garments, seeing as how the man had none of His own.

Additionally, we may assume just as easily that the reason why the Lord never much or ever addressed outward appearances is because back in His day, in the region of Israel, it may be that the Jewish people always dressed modestly, and so, it wasn't an issue.

I never read Jesus condemning abortion and/or exposing a child, but He did condemn murder, and so, by default, abortion and exposing a child (two common practices in ancient Rome), were condemned by the Lord without Him having to name the specifics.

Additionally, the Lord taught against lust and adultery, evil thoughts, pride, and etc., all of which can be easily linked back to the outer appearance of a person, and so, we can easily condemn any outer appearance that caters to lust, adultery, evil thoughts, pride, and etc. without having to point to a non-existent verse in the Gospels where Jesus never condemned someone for their outward appearance.

I guess so since he was nekkid as a jaybird. Modesty would entail not being nekkid, I would think.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I guess so since he was nekkid as a jaybird. Modesty would entail not being nekkid, I would think.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I guess so since he was nekkid as a jaybird. Modesty would entail not being nekkid, I would think.