Women
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Women can dress how they like for God looks at the heart |
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Today
most pastors allow women to dress how they like. That’s why many sisters wear
miniskirts, trousers, slit skirts, close fitting dresses, transparent
blouses, and low-necked blouses, costly clothing, shoes with stiletto heels,
fishnet stockings, necklaces, earrings, rings, etc. In addition to this, they
allow women to wear make up and to put on some lipstick, to have short hair
(that is, to have their hair just as short as men), to have their hair dyed,
etc.. The reason why these pastors allow women to do
all these things is that they believe that unless Christian women dress and
behave like the unbelieving women sinners cannot be won to Christ, that is to
say, they will hinder unbelievers from turning to the Lord for unbelievers
will never attend a worship service where they know women are dressed
modestly with decency lest they feel uneasy in the place of worship!!!
According to these pastors, their position is based on the Bible, for it is
written that the Lord looks at the heart (cf. 1 Samuel 16:7). |
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Confutation |
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It’s
time to raise one’s voice against these pastors who, through their smooth
words and flattering speech, allow many Christian women to dress like prostitutes
and seek to deceive those women who still have the sense of decency, who
still dress modestly with decency, into thinking that they, through their
modest appearance, are a hindrance to the evangelization of unbelieving
people. So, I am going to refute this perverse teaching which is widely
widespread among the brotherhood in the world. |
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Concerning
the outward adornment of women, Paul says to Timothy: “I also want women to
dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or
pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who
profess to worship God” (1 Timothy 2:9-10 – NIV), and Peter says to wives:
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and
the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of
your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is
of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past
who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were
submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called
him her master” (1 Peter 3:3-6 – NIV). As for the words of Paul bear in mind
that Paul said to Timothy: “… I am writing you these instructions so that, if
I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s
household” (1 Timothy |
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However,
those who hold the teaching ‘dress how you like,’ through their empty words,
make the words of the apostles of no effect, saying that God said to the
prophet Samuel that the Lord looks at the heart. So let me explain to you
what God meant when He said to the prophet Samuel that He looks at the heart.
As you know, God was grieved that He had made Saul king, for Saul had not
kept His commandments, so He sent Samuel to Jesse of Bethlehem for He had
chosen one of his sons to be king. However, when God commanded Samuel to go
to Jesse, He did not tell him the name of the one Samuel had to anoint, for
He said to Him: “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to
the Lord.’ Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You
are to anoint for me the one I indicate” (1 Samuel 16:2-3 – NIV). Samuel went
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Therefore,
the above mentioned words which God said to Samuel cannot be quoted in order
to affirm that if a sister wears a miniskirt or a transparent blouse or a
close fitting one or some expensive clothes or some golden jewelry God does
not care about it at all. I ask you these questions, ‘If it were so, that is,
as the rebels say, why then did the apostles teach that both the unmarried
and the married women must adorn themselves modestly, with decency and propriety,
and not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing? Do you not
think that if God did not care about the outward adornment of women at all He
would not have given these commandments through the apostles? |
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Moreover,
those who affirm that the Lord looks at the heart forget that if on the one
hand men cannot see inside a woman’s heart, on the other hand they can see
her body (it should be said that they want to see her body); therefore, if a
woman dresses indecently she will attract men’s attention through her
provocative and indecent adornment and cause them to stumble. This is why she
must keep the commandments of God given by the apostles, in order not to
cause those men who look at her to stumble. Instead, many women, with the aid
of many pastors who don’t know the Scriptures, want at all costs to cause men
to stumble. The way many sisters dress, which is indecent, is no longer
called an outrageous way of dressing, as it was called here in Italy, too,
long time ago, but rather an efficacious means to attract the people of this
world to the place of worship!! No doubt it is a means through which one can
attract many men to the place of worship, but that’s a means used also by the
managers of night clubs and cinemas and bathing establishments to attract men
to those places! I wonder, ‘What else will these rebellious pastors do in
order to attract souls to the place of worship?’ |
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Brothers,
know this, that this strategy, used by these pastors
to induce people to come to the place of worship in order to hear the Gospel,
is not from God. These pastors, who affirm these things, are not fishers of
men but deceivers of men, just as many perverse people who live in this
world. Peter says about the false teachers: “For when they speak great
swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh,
through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in
error” (2 Peter 2:18 – NKJV); this is what these idle talkers do by urging
Christian women to wear provocative and costly clothes, they entice, by
appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, the ones who are
just escaping from those who live in error! The worldly lusts have been
transplanted into the Church by these pastors on the pretext that they are
useful to win souls to Christ. What a deception! Instead of saying, ‘Let us
love one another as Christ commanded us, so that the world may feel attracted
to us seeing the love which we have for one another,’ or, ‘Let us desire
earnestly spiritual gifts, so that the glorious manifestation of the Spirit
may be seen among us, and sinners may recognize that God is truly among us,
and they may feel attracted to us when they hear about the great things God
works among us,’ many urge the Christian women not to dress the way women dressed
in the past but to follow the fashion, lest the people of this world feel
uneasy when they come to the place of worship and lest they go away without
coming back. Tell me this, ‘Where does the Scripture say that the children of
God must conform themselves to the worldly lusts, while sinners must not
conform themselves to the holy ways of God?’ You dare say, ‘The people of
this world might be scandalized by seeing women with long skirts, long
sleeves, without make-up and jewelry!’ but I tell to you that women will
scandalize unbelievers if they dress, or rather if they undress, as you tell
them to do. Who has bewitched you? Repent and walk the old paths again, for
the paths you are walking are crooked. I urge you not to tell those things to
women. |
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Some
words to women |
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Sisters
in the Lord, know this, that since your body is the |
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The
fashion of the world tends to masculinize women. Is it not true that a woman
who wears trousers – whether blue jeans or slacks or pant suits - looks like
a man? Whereas the Bible affirms that there must be a clear difference
between men and women in their way of dressing, as it is written in the law:
“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put
on a woman’s garments, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your
God” (Deuteronomy 22:5 – NKJV). You may say to me, ‘That’s a verse of the law
of Moses and we are not under the law but under grace!’ Well, have you never
read that “the law is good if one uses it lawfully” (1 Timothy 1:8 – NKJV)
for the law is made for whatever is contrary to the sound doctrine (cf. 1
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The
fashion of the world tends to make a woman provocative and seductive, and
thus it leads men to lust after her. In other words, the fashion of the world
tends to cause men to stumble. Do you know what happens both in the mind and
in the heart of a man when he looks at a woman who wears a miniskirt, or a slit
skirt or a close fitting dress or a low-necked dress, or a transparent
blouse, or tight trousers, or fishnet stockings etc.? He begins to lust after
that woman. So these articles of clothing send sexual signals. Have you ever
wondered why prostitutes wear the above mentioned articles of clothing?
Because they want to allure men into a sexual relationship. Have you ever
wondered why the adulteress dresses like a harlot? Because she wants to
allure men into a sexual relationship. Listen to what Solomon said about the
adulteress: “Then out came a woman to meet him [a youth who lacked
judgement], dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent …. She took hold
of him and kissed him and with a brazen face she said: I have fellowship
offerings at home; today I fulfilled my vows. So I came out to meet you; I
looked for you and have found you! I have covered my bed with coloured linens
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Let
me tell you now a few things about make up, lipstick, jewelry, and shoes with
stiletto heels: the purpose of all these things is to make you look
provocative and seductive. So you must flee them also. If you still wear make
up or lipstick or jewelry or shoes with stiletto heels, I urge you to stop wearing
these things, for you are wasting your money and your time and by making up
and putting on lipstick you are even damaging your skin. Remember that
Jezebel, who was an evil woman, “painted her eyes” (2 Kings 9:30 – NIV); and
that Sarah, who was a holy woman who trusted in God, did not wear any jewelry
(cf. 1 Peter 3:3-6), even though she was the wife of Abraham, who was a rich
man who had much gold. Furthermore, do not have your hair dyed; be content
with the natural colour of your hair. Neither should you have short hair, for
the Scripture says that “if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for
her hair is given to her for a covering” (1 Corinthians |
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Let
all your skirts, all your dresses and all your blouses, all your shoes and
all your stockings be modest. Wear long skirts without vents, which cover all
your legs; wear long-sleeved blouses. Dress in a way worthy of the Gospel, so
that you may glorify God in your body as the Scripture commands. And the Lord
will delight in you and will honor you. |
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I
conclude by telling you the following things. Be careful how you adorn
yourselves, sisters in the Lord, for your outward appearance is important to
your testimony. If you adorn yourselves the way the Scripture commands you to
do (and you do also the other things the Scripture commands you to do), the
name of the Lord will be glorified in you and you in Him, and the faith in
the Gospel you profess will be supported and honored by your holy conduct.
But if you adorn yourselves like the daughters of this world, following the
fashion of this world, your testimony will be weakened and the name of the
Lord will be blasphemed because of your outrageous way of dressing. Know this,
that all those pastors who teach that you can dress how you like are not
pursuing what is good for you. |