@JGoldman10,
JGoldman10 wrote:
1 Timothy 2:9 -
I want women to show their beauty by dressing in appropriate clothes that are modest and respectable. Their beauty will be shown by what they do, not by their hair styles or the gold jewelry, pearls, or expensive clothes they wear.
You do realize that this is about putting on too much ritzy stuff, it is not about wearing too little. You would be better off using the anti lust quotes, but even then I dont see in the Bible where women are made responsible for dampening the lust of men. Even if the Bible did I would reject it, as lust is one of the better spices of life. I would be very curious to see also what the words were originally, as I am not willing to take as a article of faith that the word "modest" is the result of correct translation.
Here we go...
Quote:In modest apparel - The word here rendered "modest" (κόσμιος kosmios), properly relates to ornament, or decoration, and means that which is "well-ordered, decorous, becoming." It does not, properly, mean modest in the sense of being opposed to that which is immodest, or which tends to excite improper passions and desires, but that which is becoming or appropriate. The apostle does not positively specify what this would be, but he mentions somethings which are to be excluded from it, and which, in his view, are inconsistent with the true adorning of Christian females - "broidered hair, gold, pearls, costly array." The sense here is, that the apparel of females should be such as becomes them, or is appropriate to them. The word here used (κόσμιος kosmios), shows that there should be due attention that it may be truly neat, fit, decorous. There is no religion in a negligent mode of apparel, or in inattention to personal appearance - anymore than there is in wearing gold and pearls; and a female may as truly violate the precepts of her religion by neglecting her personal appearance as by excessive attention to it. The true idea here is, that her attention to her appearance should be such that she will be offensive to no class of persons; such as to show that her mind is supremely fixed on higher and more important things, and such as to interfere with no duty which she owes, and no good which she can do, either by spending her time needlessly in personal adorning, or by lavishing that money for dress which might do good to others, or by neglecting the proprieties of her station, and making herself offensive to others.
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/2-9.htm
It sounds to me like women are free to dress in as little as they like according to God, so long as they are not offensive to humans.....God does not care. Since we get to decide I vote for not being offended when women wear very little.
