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Recent content by breadandbutter

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    I was kicked out of an Apostolic church once...

    Yes, they have a dress code that is stated in their "articles of faith" under their "bylaws", which are almost exactly word-for-word identical to the "bylaws" of the Pilgrim Holiness Church (I believe it is the New York Pilgrim Holiness I was comparing them with). The Holiness Movement preceded...
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    Is it a sin for men to have long hair, and women short?

    No, it is not a "sin" for a woman to have a short hair cut. The word the Apostle used was "shame", or the Greek atimia. It bear a cultural meaning and did not indicate a condition of sinfulness before God but a condition, often punishment for a crime, before society. One must understand the...
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    I was kicked out of an Apostolic church once...

    I know this thread is supposed to die, but it appears to be of significant interest. I don't want to debate since I never seem to get anywhere doing it. But, I would like to add some comments concerning Deut. 22:5. Of special interest to me was the translations of geber and keliy by Hebrew...
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    I was kicked out of an Apostolic church once...

    OK.. I wrote a book entitled, "Should a Christian Woman Wear Pants?" I would like to make a few comments. Pants were the invention of the Medes & Persians in the 4th cen. B.C. and were worn by BOTH sexes. They were not invented for men; neither were men the first to wear pants. They were...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    Atapia94, please heed... God is calling you to be separate, yes, but that means "anointed." You cannot put God on the outside of you for the "world" to see. Christian women in the early church looked like the rest of the normal women of the Roman Empire, but they did not look like the...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    I have never found out how to separate portions of a person's post so I can make comments here and there. You make comments that read to me as though you are missing the point now and then and are simply off the subject. Catherine Clark Kroeger was an expert in her field and is definately more...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    The standard of interpretation of Biblical passages I am wary of are those of a supposed 'spiritual' nature with no scholarship! We positively cannot understand the Bible without history. It goes hand-in-hand with the Bible. We also must study the definitions of the key terms in the passage in...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    In a previous post I stated that ancient Greece and Rome had sumptuary laws that prohibited any woman the adorning proscribed in 1 Tim. 2:9 and 1 Peter 3:3 except prostitutes. There were thousands of sacred prostitues in the city of Ephesus, who were attached to Diana's shrine. Sacred...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    Atapia94... I hope you read my post on the hair issue. It is not a "sin" to cut your hair! The Apostle, in v6, used the word, "shame", which is not synonymous with "sin" and does not denote a sinful condition before God, but one of wearing a public badge of infamy before an ancient society...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    Concerning 1 Tim. 2:9-10 and 1 Peter 3:5 in reference to "modest" apparel... Ancient Greece and Rome had SUMPTUARY LAWS that prohibited any woman the adorning proscribed in these texts except PROSTITUTES, of which there were thousands in Ephesus (where the Epistle of Timothy was directed)...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    A "razor shall never come upon her head"? Do you think Paul put women under OT Nazarite vows? This phrase is worded like the vow of a Nazarite in Num. 6:2-16. Romans 6:14 plainly states "... ye are not under the law, but under grace." Deut. 22:5 is used as an argument against women...
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    Thoughts about Paul words about women

    I like long hair for myself, say around shoulder-length, at least, but many women considered beautiful, even movie stars and sex symbols, have had short hair. I personally don't like pony-tails on men, but not all men in our culture, who have pony-tails, are 'gay'. After the fall of Rome...
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    Pentecostal women dress style

    I would also like to add comments on the passage of 1 Cor. 1-16, which is used to teach against women cutting their hair (any length). I am the author of a booklet and several tracts dealing with this scripture passage and the hair issue. The subject of the passage is veiling, but the Oneness...
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    Thoughts about Paul words about women

    Thank you, Razeontherock! This passage means very much to me. I was raised with the notion that it is a "sin" for women to cut their hair, because of a lack of understanding of this particular passage. It is a mistake to attempt to apply this passage, literally, within a modern day church...
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    Women in Pulpit- Any Denomination

    To take the writings of Apostle Paul OUT of their historical context is to distort the true meaning of Scripture. Paul was watching over churches he established in the first century--not US. We don't have the problems involving paganism the early church had. < staff edit >