Originally Posted by Esaias View Post
“Please explain how a woman can adorn herself with costly array, gold, silver, and plaited hair, while obeying the instruction to not adorn herself with costly array, gold, silver, and plaited hair.”
Certainly. . . I thought I would allow you to answer your own questions. You do not seem to understand the difference between literal and allegorical. Perhaps I have given you too much credit.
The woman in the passage below is not really wearing good works Esaias. NOT physically and literally. I really did believe you understood that. Either you don’t understand, or you want to play dumb. Let me say, if it is really an act, you deserve an Oscar for your performance. So, I’ll play along.
1Timothy 2
[8] I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
[9] In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
[10] But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
What is she wearing you might ask? Shamefacedness and sobriety, and (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Is this what she is literally, physically, and naturally wearing? No!!! Of course not!!! We don’t know what she is covering her nakedness with. Because this scripture is NOT about that. It IS about her heart ♥️ 💜 ❤️!!!! (After all it is Valentine’s Day).
If you believe that this is about physical, literal clothing. Believe me it is NOT. It is NOT about jewelry, it is NOT about dresses. And it is NOT about braiding your hair (or NOT). It IS about the heart. That IS the point of the NOT in verse 9.
What Paul is trying to say is that this is NOT about regular clothing. Most people I think understand this. Some people don’t, usually because they don’t want to. Perhaps they have misunderstood this passage and preached it as literal for twenty years or more, so they get trapped by their own ego and don’t want to admit that they have been wrong.
How is that for an answer? Did I do good? Now on to the next question. Allow me to address this.
Originally Posted by Esaias View Post
“Where again did you find in the New Testament a godly woman pictured decked with jewelry, et al?”
I didn’t invent this game but I know a little bit about how to play it. This is my answer.
I can show you in the New Testament where men were swallowing camels. I can show you in the New Testament where women wore good works instead of clothing. I can show you in the New Testament where a people turned the world upside down, but I’m not sure if I can show you where a godly woman wore all of that.
I kind of understand what you’re trying to do here. You have not been able to find a scripture that prohibits jewelry or one that declares jewelry to be sinful. So you wanna forget about the several examples I have quoted from the OLD Testament where God obviously considered jewelry a blessing that He provided to His chosen people. All of a sudden, the Old Testament is no longer relevant. Okay. I get it.
Sooooo . . .
Please show me in the New Testament where a woman is wearing a dress. Please show me a prohibition in the New Testament where it is an abomination for a woman to wear that which pertaineth to a man. Please show me in the New Testament where . . . You get the point.
I’ll be waiting on your thoughtful, relevant and truthful answers.