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Exodus 28:42
“You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the hips even to the thighs.”
On my last modesty posts, I stated someone in the comments said if you don’t cover your calves, God is surely looking at you with immodesty, right?
(This isn’t MODESTY?!)
This verse says other wise.
Which means our culture has sexualized every body part.
So yea, others can probably stumble from shorts. Some think of course, “MeN’s aTtiRe”
What do you think?
(P.S. this is generally curiosity, I’m really worried about it.)
I wonder... if you are still so worried about it (you are posting such questions again and again) why dont you simply dress in a way that your whole legs are covered? Its nothing difficult. And you can finally be in peace with your conscience.

I dont wear any shorts and nothing bad happened to me because of it ;-)
 
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I wonder... if you are still so worried about it (you are posting such questions again and again) why dont you simply dress in a way that your whole legs are covered? Its nothing difficult. And you can finally be in peace with your conscience.

I dont wear any shorts and nothing bad happened to me because of it ;-)
This.
 
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I wonder... if you are still so worried about it (you are posting such questions again and again) why dont you simply dress in a way that your whole legs are covered? Its nothing difficult. And you can finally be in peace with your conscience.

I dont wear any shorts and nothing bad happened to me because of it ;-)
Hello friend, I am not worried about it, like I said in the OG, it’s general curiosity! No worries :)
 
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I can't understand this at all: My mom refuses to let me go many places wearing shorts. She forces me to change into capris before leaving home by saying, "We are not going," before giving me a lecture. I won't tolerate it no matter what. Nobody can convince me it is bad to wear shorts because "people do not show that much skin" or just how weird the style looks now. I need help understanding why shorts are bad in a casual location where other people can see me because the reason obviously is not lust.
 
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I can't understand this at all: My mom refuses to let me go many places wearing shorts. She forces me to change into capris before leaving home by saying, "We are not going," before giving me a lecture. I won't tolerate it no matter what. Nobody can convince me it is bad to wear shorts because "people do not show that much skin" or just how weird the style looks now. I need help understanding why shorts are bad in a casual location where other people can see me because the reason obviously is not lust.
Well it’s kinda the only reason. Lust. We live in a world where everything has been sexualized, from head to toes- literally.
What kind of shorts do you wear?
As Christians, we should not dress in a way that could make our brothers stumble (and even sisters) but in a Holy manner.
Of course, like many others have said, if you wear a potato sack, someone’s still gonna lust over you.
Just wear not super tight shorts.
 
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Well it’s kinda the only reason. Lust. We live in a world where everything has been sexualized, from head to toes- literally.
What kind of shorts do you wear?
As Christians, we should not dress in a way that could make our brothers stumble (and even sisters) but in a Holy manner.
Of course, like many others have said, if you wear a potato sack, someone’s still gonna lust over you.
Just wear not super tight shorts.
Sincerely, some legs should be covered not because of lust, but because they look really awful :)
 
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Sincerely, some legs should be covered not because of lust, but because they look really awful :)
Ha, true.
I’m underweight so they look awfffulll on me.
(Wearing them though, it’s too. Darn. Hot. Outside.)
 
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Exodus 28 provides stipulations for priestly garments only, in the Old Covenant.
Yes! Thank goodness, I am not the only one who keeps needing to remind people to not take elements of the Mosaic Law and simply transport them into the 21st century.
 
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Well it’s kinda the only reason. Lust. We live in a world where everything has been sexualized, from head to toes- literally.

What kind of shorts do you wear?

As Christians, we should not dress in a way that could make our brothers stumble (and even sisters) but in a Holy manner.

Of course, like many others have said, if you wear a potato sack, someone’s still gonna lust over you. Just wear not super tight shorts.

The same kind of shorts little kids wear: jeans that end halfway to the knee. Nothing could be less sexy. I am sure if lust was an issue with this style, nobody would make them in adult sizes.
 
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Yes! Thank goodness, I am not the only one who keeps needing to remind people to not take elements of the Mosaic Law and simply transport them into the 21st century.
I agree we are not under the law any longer, but I do agree some commandments in the Old Scripture apply to today.
Like the Ten Commandments.
You’re probably think “that’s dogma, and nothing else is!”
That’s true. I wonder if priestly garments in the Old Testament still apply to today. In the New Testament we don’t get much description on such.
TL/DR
If it isn’t in the NT it either doesn’t apply or does somewhat IMO
 
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The same kind of shorts little kids wear: jeans that end halfway to the knee. Nothing could be less sexy. I am sure if lust was an issue with this style, nobody would make them in adult sizes.
I think it depends how much toosh is shown, not necessarily the legs actually.
So you can wear normal shorts (not the super short and sexy kind)
The avg kind
 
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14 Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

What Jesus was/is trying to say? What do you think?

Its not about shorts , its about your inside thoughts.
 
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I think it depends how much toosh is shown, not necessarily the legs actually. So you can wear normal shorts (not the super short and sexy kind). The average kind.

Right - my shorts and capris are identical except for length. That is why it makes no sense that Mom says it is never OK to wear shorts. I have no problem with her saying that about going to dress-up places, but I have no reason to worry about it during medical appointments.
 
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Right - my shorts and capris are identical except for length. That is why it makes no sense that Mom says it is never OK to wear shorts. I have no problem with her saying that about going to dress-up places, but I have no reason to worry about it during medical appointments.
True.
 
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It's not the person in the shorts, it's the person looking at them. And as a self confessed 'legs man' (though mostly hips) a nice pair of legs will ALWAYS be a nice pair of legs, regardless as to whether they're in shorts or jeans. The shape will always be there.

Jeans can be more dangerous than shorts, especially with some of these cuts that you can buy nowadays.

Anyway, as a man, and as an uncle, it's my job now (at nearly 30) to not objectify. It cheapens all of us.
 
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When I began life, my dad was a minister in a conservative Protestant denomination. I was 5 when he joined a more moderate denomination, also as a pastor. Even as a five-year-old I was amused that on the day of our denominational realignment, my mother and sisters all headed downtown to buy slacks, shorts, earrings, and make-up for the first time. And they were just as Christian the next day as they had been the day before.
 
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They'd better be okay, because I'm not going to sweat and suffer heat rashes by wearing long pants when it's 100 degrees :D

People know if their shorts are skin-tight and cut right up to their butt cheeks or not. Wearing shorts to stay cool and wearing shorts to look sexy are two different things. Anyone who's walking around in Daisy Dukes and claiming they *can't* wear anything a bit longer and looser because it's just too uncomfortable, is full of bunk.

amen! i heard someone say that bare arms cause you go to hell but i decided that i was not going to suffer in the heat by wearing long sleeved tops, hell or no hell. am not dead yet!
 
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When I began life, my dad was a minister in a conservative Protestant denomination. I was 5 when he joined a more moderate denomination, also as a pastor. Even as a five-year-old I was amused that on the day of our denominational realignment, my mother and sisters all headed downtown to buy slacks, shorts, earrings, and make-up for the first time. And they were just as Christian the next day as they had been the day before.

amen. thank you. this comforts me as i had been worried re: things like trousers jewellery and make up. so many bizarre "prophecies" on how these things lead to hell...it all so crazy!
 
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