I think holiness has been misrepresented by clothing. In such circles it can indeed be dead and replaced. Holiness is s state of the heart that manifests modesty, for sure, but not necessarily according to certain dress standards. When people have to line up to a dress standard, rather than allow true holiness to manifest naturally of its own accord, it becomes fleshly, though modest. Ands anything of the flesh does not please the Lord.
We have two extremes. The folks who hold no bars and think immodesty is fine, and those who have outlandish dress standards that are nigh unto the Amish. Both are fleshly.
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"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
I heard an excellent message this weekend that discussed holiness. We are not made holy by anything we can do. Our righteousness is, after all, like filthy rags. We are not made holy by our actions, our clothes, or even our attitudes. We are made holy by the blood of Jesus. It was when the priests in the OT were sprinkled with the blood of the lamb that they were set apart as holy to the Lord. In the same way, we are covered with the blood of the Lamb today. When God looks at us now, He sees the blood of Jesus. It is His blood that makes us holy, not anything we can do on our part. Anything we do in dress or word or deed is because we are holy, not because we are trying to be holy. And it isn't a contest, BTW, of who has the longest hem or hair. It's a matter of a heart response to God.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
Why does Peter entreat us to "be holy" if we already are holy?
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His banner over me is LOVE.... My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
To be a servant of God, it will cost us our total commitment to God, and God alone. His burden must be our burden... Sis Alvear
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
Holiness is s state of the heart that manifests modesty, for sure, but not necessarily according to certain dress standards. When people have to line up to a dress standard, rather than allow true holiness to manifest naturally of its own accord, it becomes fleshly, though modest. Ands anything of the flesh does not please the Lord.
We have two extremes. The folks who hold no bars and think immodesty is fine, and those who have outlandish dress standards that are nigh unto the Amish. Both are fleshly.
Concur. Holiness doesn't die, but people can get so sick of legalistic codes presented wioth a "line up or split hell" spirit that they kill the codes, and then all to often flip to the opposite extreme.
Concur. Holiness doesn't die, but people can get so sick of legalistic codes presented wioth a "line up or split hell" spirit that they kill the codes, and then all to often flip to the opposite extreme.
Very true.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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