SaintCody777
The young, curious Berean
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The key problem here is: Where and what culture is it deemed appropriate to wear what kind of clothing for which gender? Back in those days, everyone wore skirt-like clothes. If verse 11 told us not to wear mix fabrics and Duet 22:5 means women shouldn't wear pants or shirts, then that would mean a slippery slope that eventually gets down to not wearing anything that's pink and that we also shouldn't wear mixed fabrics. I'm Duet 22, God provides mischellous directions specifically to the Israelite community for it's customs For the past 100 years, pants and shorts are seen as gender nuetral clothing, as the skirt-looking clothes were in the Biblical times.When a person chooses to wear what is deemed the attire of the opposite sex the mind set in the reasoning could perhaps be the issue. We tend to become like Eve in the garden when we rationalize that it seems like it should be ok to us and ignore God's word. God's word is here to guide us,, protect us, and deliver us, so it seems wise to just abide by the word.
On the other hand, the Bible, for NT Christians, does speak about long hair for woman, which I believe that in and of itself makes a difference. From my experience, when I am about to take a swim in an Olympic sized pool at my school and I see someone practicing swimming laps with short hair from a distance, it looks like to me a man is practicing swimming. But as I was getting into the water, I saw that the "man" was revealed to be a woman with a racerback swimsuit. If that same girl worn long hair, unless covered by a swim cap, then it would be much quicker to determine that she is a woman. 1 Corinthians 11:14-15.
For women, they are better distinguished by hair then by clothes.
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