Re: Facts Found~The Early Church and Standards~
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Originally Posted by jaxfam6
what about the cultures where they grow up running around naked? are we to go there and change them and make them dress like us? which is what a lot of missionaries used to do. You suddenly had to change your life style to be saved. You had to dress like the missionaries to be saved. These people were living like their culture. So if your culture were to run around naked would that be wrong of them once they became 'saved'?
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Good question, bible does speak of modest apparel, does it not? No culture can be allowed to violate scripture. Scripture first then culture.
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