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Originally Posted by jaxfam6
I do not agree. I am a healthy guy and I tend to think that dresses and skirts tend to be designed to be more sexual and sensual. Pants if worn tight, just like a skirt or dress, are certainly not modest.
Lets just leave Bible out for a minute here. I work in a building that has four floors. I walk the stairs instead of taking the elevator because I was getting a bit lazy. The other day I heard something above me and I looked up. Guess what I saw? A lady walking down the stairs on the insie near the railing that is open. I could see everything. Her skirt was modest, it was long, it was loose. I still saw everything. I decide that from now on I can not look up when in the stairwell at work. Then I got thinking about it. ALL places I have been have these open stair wells. Been to a two story mall lately? The ones I have seen have glass railings. If a lady stands beside the rail and is wearing a skirt or dress if you are below her and look up guess what you will see.
I think the traditions that have been taught are very hard for some to let go of. I think we need to really remember that God gave us a mind to think fo ourselves. We are taught in the BIBLE that we are to seek out our own salvation with fear and trembling. We need to allow God to do a work in people and we need to stop doing our work in people.
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There you go again..telling all our secrets. lol
No seriously, I see your point.
I was once in a very crowded elevator and I quickly realized that I was the only male aboard. I'm a rather short guy, about 5.4". A rather nice looking lady, slightly taller than me and wearing a low cut blouse, got on board the elevator and stood facing me and I was very uncomfortable to say the least. So what do uncomfortable men do? We look up. For example in the men's room at the urinal...we often look up at ceiling. Well, I looked up and guess what...the ceiling of the elevator was mirrored...and ya know...low cut blouses are even less modest when looking down at them. I was stunned and slowly a couple ladies looked up... including the lady in front of me, and we instantly made eye contact. A few coughs and she tugged her blouse on up and crossed her arms. I was so embarrassed...but there was nothing I could do. Oh well...I just turned red, accepted the dirty look from the lady, and got off at the very next floor to escape my humiliation.
Sometimes there's no escaping some exposure. It's normal. And in some ways it's healthy because reminds us that standards are necessary. But I wouldn't advocate women always wear a turtleneck because of what I experienced. I also wouldn't make women wear pants if I looked up and saw a little more than necessary at a stairwell. But over all...women's pants are mostly less modest than a woman's dress or skirt. The thigh in Scripture was to be covered because it was deemed nakedness. The "thigh" was also the region between the legs from knee to knee. To reveal it was nakedness. So anything that would accentuate the area could be seen as nakedness. Ladies pants will typically accentuate a ladies legs, rear, and sometimes even their "loins". It goes to say that biblically speaking anything revealing the form of a woman in these ares was to be discouraged. That's why traditional Jewish denominations still teach that women should wear dresses or skirts.
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