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this is how a christian women should look!!!!!!!!

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JCitoL said:
nowadays it may depend on the shorts as well as on the gender and the character of their bosses

Blessings
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Yeah. Nowadays it depends on too many things! That's why we've lost our direction. We used to know what was right, now there are conditions. I think this is called subjective morality. But we don't want to get too serious here.

BTW, I don't know what's going on there nowadays, but when I was in Bermuda about 20 years ago (wasn't it, like, yesterday??) the men there DID wear shorts - and they wore them to work, with a shirt and tie and jacket and long socks up to the knee. The shorts met the socks at the knee. It looked okay.

Now I don't want to hear from JohnDB. Since it's important to understand the REASON one dresses as one does.
Know what I mean?

Wondering
 
Lewis said:
What Does the Bible Say About Proper Dress?
http://www.christianbiblereference.org/faq_dress.htm
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Hi Lewis,
I see you're trying to turn this into a serious topic. Okay.
I read the link. It's good. Can't argue with any of it. If I went to a church that had a dress code, I'd tend to think it's cultist (cultish?) and I'd leave.
OTOH, there IS an appropriate dress for church. I think it could be taken too far. When I used to come here (Italy) on vacation as a young girl, I'd have to cover my head to go to Mass. I'd wear a veil of some color. This is not true anymore. However, if you come here as a tourist even today, and want to enter a church to visit, you do have to not be wearing shorts and you must have your shoulders covered. They've started giving out these plastic sheets for those who are not prepared.

I think this is right. How you're dressed shows respect. For a holy God. Holy means to be set apart. We also are a holy people so we also are to be set apart. We're not to do what everyone else is doing, but what could be pleasing to God. And how do we know what this is? By reading Mathew 5:2-16. The persons Jesus is speaking of here are members of the Kingdom of God. They don't sound to me like boastful, proud, and showy off type people. Does this mean we shouldn't wear jewelry (may it never be!)? No. But we shouldn't ADORN ourselves in jewelry. IOW, the jewelry should not be worn for its own glory but as an addition to a total look.

Does this mean we have to go around looking like the gal up there on the right? No to that too. But we should keep in mind WHY we're putting on certain articles of clothing. A cousin of mine was complaining to me when she was about 20 or so that she couldn't attract serious guys. I tried to tell her in a nice way that it might be because she dressed like a hooker and that's why guys see - not what's going on in your head and how "serious" of a person you really are.

How you dress DOES reflect who you are and how you think. If there's a disconnect you will run into problems. The world tells girls and boys they're to be free and do what they want and nothing means anything. God tells us to dress and behave in such a way as to bring glory to Him and to mirror how we are inside.

This doesn't mean a woman should go around shabbily dressed, with no thought put into it, no make-up and no jewelry, in the hopes of creating a "holy" (and false) look of some type of holiness which is purely external and would not bring glory to God. In fact, I think it would work in the opposite direction.

Wondering
 
The flowers on that skirt are exactly two centimeters too large...

Access denied....you are hearby labled as a whore and need to repent and pay an act of contrition before you can be allowed to return.
 
wondering said:
Yeah. Nowadays it depends on too many things! That's why we've lost our direction. We used to know what was right, now there are conditions. I think this is called subjective morality. But we don't want to get too serious here.

BTW, I don't know what's going on there nowadays, but when I was in Bermuda about 20 years ago (wasn't it, like, yesterday??) the men there DID wear shorts - and they wore them to work, with a shirt and tie and jacket and long socks up to the knee. The shorts met the socks at the knee. It looked okay.

Now I don't want to hear from JohnDB. Since it's important to understand the REASON one dresses as one does.
Know what I mean?

Wondering
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the truth is that the appearance should not be a problem by itself, that is why adam and eve were naked in the garden without being ashamed of their nudity; it is first of all about spiritual things in the Scripture - actually, the spiritual things are the only things that are explained/presented therein, that is why there are no things in the Bible such as building or how to build a house, cooking recipes or how to cook, sex poses or how to have sex, etc., or as the Lord, Jesus, says:

Matthew 6:32-33 "take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek(i.e. it is typical/normal for the ordinary users(disbelievers) to seek such things)) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things(i.e. everything else that you need) shall be added unto you."

however, there is likely to be a problem if there is an offense such as that which caused the nakedness to be tempting/embarrassing for some people, that is why i personally do not dare to appear too naked before the people, though i have nothing against the looks of the women in principle

Blessings
 
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