Holiness dress standards-salvation or consecration
 

Now I know many on this forum do not like the correlation between holiness and modest dress, and I see their point. However, it's a concept we are all familiar with; whether we agree with it or not.

My thought that I wanted to pose to the forum: do you see modest holy dress standards as salvational or having to do with consecration towards God?

I look forward to your responses.

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I see it more along the lines of personal sanctification and modesty. While it isn't something I immediately equate with being a basis for salvation, it can be a basis for personal sin if one is brazenly and willfully immodest as some form of self-willed rebellion.

The Christian discipline/practice of modesty is biblical.

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Modesty and no prideful showiness are salvational, the mode of modesty and what constitutes pride, showiness, costly array, etc. These cause division because it was spelled out as if to relate to the time of the authors of standards, or articles of faith etc, rather than to reflect what was considered modesty, or pride by specifics....imho

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What is the difference between consecration and sanctification?

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How does the bible define Holiness?

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If one dresses immodestly they should expect to go to Hell.

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holiness is taking on the attributes of God by having the fruit of the Spirit

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Holiness standards in and of themselves have no saving power. I know many who hold the same standards as the strongest Apostolic churches, yet have never been born again. Their standards will not save them. Standards of modesty and gender distinction are biblical commandments of God, therefore they are to do with consecration and necessary for the consecrated believer. Heaven is for people who have been converted and consecrated themselves to God. It is impossible to be consecrated while living in willful rebellion. Therefore, I do believe that standards of holiness are salvific in that they are necessary in order to live a life of holiness, and holiness and sanctification are essential aspects of salvation. I do not believe they are salvific in and of themselves, however.

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Holiness standards will not save you by themselves, but you will be lost without them.

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true enough!