Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 816697)

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Well, anyway. That's the lecture I give my son. Jeffrey thinks its hilarious to catch the girls' attention at the dinner table, then stick his finger up his nose, then in his mouth. Of course, they yell and scream and get sick about it, and that makes it fun for him. So, I've been telling him about the germy part of it to try to discourage him.

Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 816701)

It's safe to say that THIS time we didn't hijack the thread with SHOES. :D :D :D

Originally Posted by MissBrattified (Post 816701)

It's safe to say that THIS time we didn't hijack the thread with SHOES. :D :D :D

Originally Posted by jfrog (Post 816777)

Haha, thanks ladies. Just remember if ya try to hijack my thread I'm goina use my super man-thority powers... and you'll be sorry! JKJKJK

Originally Posted by Sam (Post 816593)

My pastor told us of a preacher who preached that when Isaiah 3:18 said that God would take away "their round tires like the moon" it was a prophecy of how tires would be rationed during World War 2. That was preached during World War 2.

That may seem humorous but it's probably about as good Bible exposition as preaching about wearing wedding rings from that same chapter today.

Originally Posted by Godsdrummer (Post 816586)

Gladly and with great joy will I address this issue because I was raised UPCI where at least we could have wedding rings. But another issue came up while I was pastoring, when a sister came to me concerning another subject and said we preach such and such and she had been doing some study on her own and found things were not as we had preach as truth she said she felt lied to.
This cause me to go back to the book and ask God to put his word even more in my heart. Understand I thought I knew the word front and back by this time but things had been accepted by myself as the word of God if they seem to make sence. So now I began to question everything and study things frontwards and backwards. I found that most everything I had been taught as sound word of God (standards of holiness) were mans meanings and not what the word accualy said. This finally caused me to leave UPCI after 45 years. I hung on for 20 years after God showed me his truth.

Now as for Isaiah let me break this down s l o w l y

Isa 3:16 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:

Everything listed are attitudes nothing has to do with jewlery, even the tinkling with their feet is hard put to make mean jewlery.

Isa 3:17 Therefore Because oftheir sensual, prideful,haughty attitude
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.
the first thing God is going to do is strike their head with scab. This will take away their pride and haughtyness.
I would go on but I think anyone with a open heart to the spirit of what God is doing will get the drift.

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace* (Post 816836)

Most anti-jewelry people I know don't even use these verses to support their view. It's just so obviously not the point.

God had blessed them. They forgot him. They walked around haughtily, prissing and prancing in all of their finery. So, God had had enough of it. He took away his blessings.

It would be like me giving my child a bicycle, and then taking that bicycle away because the child used it in a disobedient action. He wasn't being punished for having the bicycle (which I gave him!), but for his attitude and disobedience after receiving the bicycle.

Originally Posted by ApostolicTexas (Post 816986)

Context context context,WHO was God speaking to and about?..This is something Apostolics do not consider,don't worry,you have not been taught to do that,you have been taught to take the Word of God literal.It is literal,but not all of it.Lot of metaphoric language being used and it even carries over into the New.:thumbsup