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NicoChristian wrote: but her parents still tried to make her eat it.
wmfinck wrote:As for head coverings: I explained in my presentation of 1 Corinthians Part 13 that a woman's natural covering is her hair. Paul's remarks were being made in the face of Greco-Roman culture where women were wearing short hair, and/or piling their hair atop their heads in elaborate braids. That was seen as a form of feminism in Paul's time. I have a gallery of images linked to the program notes to demonstrate the meaning.
Joe wrote:The NASB interpolates the word 'merely' at 1 Peter.
1Pe 3:3 Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;
I do not think that Scripture should be distorted obviously but I can see why they might do this. I don't want to argue against the plain words here, and I would try to live by them. But I have thought about this verse many times.
That is, I think if a good woman (not a bimbo), your own wife let's say, put a ribbon in her hair or wore some small earrings or a floral dress ...I would probably appreciate that. I mean God made her and she is beautiful. And she is a woman, and she appears as a woman, and there should be strong gender roles and differentiation between them. And a woman should appear feminine. So long as she has a gentle and quiet spirit.
But that would strictly be an adornment. So that would be against the words of 1 Peter.
And think about the devils, they all look the same, male and female look very much the same and have very similar qualities. And the arabs take it to the extreme by having their females wear a garbage bag all day.
So what do you guys think?
Isaiah chapter 3 wrote: 16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. 18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
That obviously does not mean that women should not wear clothes. They just shouldn't care to adorn themselves in vain and costly garments. So it follows that women are not completely forbidden from other adornments, but rather, they should keep those modest as well.
But I see these things as a form of feminism as well, even if modern men do not understand that. So I did not think to mention it distinctly.
This was feminism in Isaiah's time, when women vainly adorned themselves with luxuries so as to attract attention to themselves. And for what reason, other than whoredom? How is society these past 100 or so years not reflected in that? For that reason Christian women should not seek to make spectacles of themselves.
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