WOMEN IN PANTS
Deuteronomy 22:5 says, "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."
Laws that are moral in nature are just as binding upon the Christian in the New Testament as they were upon the Jew in the Old Testament. Note that the rule about women wearing men's clothing is a moral matter. Those who wear clothes which properly belong to the opposite sex are called "abomination unto the Lord thy God."
God established the sexes, God made man and God made woman. God put in them certain instinctive differences as well as physical differences. God intended that those differences should be maintained. Those who seek to erase those differences seek to pervert the plan of God. The wearing of proper clothing indicative of one's sex is a moral matter.
I Timothy 2:9 says in part, "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel." We refer to the general immodesty of the pants that most women wear. Usually these pants are so tight-fitting that there is no "slack" in them. Most of them are form-fitting and revealing. They are not modest apparel.
Some women who wear pants say that they are so much more confortable for travel or for sports or whatever. They may have a point, but Christian women should be more concerned about obedience to the Bible than about comfort. Besides that, there are other garments which are definitely feminine which women can wear to take part in certain activities and still be feminine and still be modest.
It would be wise for mothers to set an example and then begin early to teach their daughters modesty in dress. Don't let the world set your standards. The jeans, slacks, and pant suits that seem to be so popular with unsaved, worldly people in our time are not modest, feminine attire by Bible standards. Girls who wear clothes that are recognized as mannish do not honor God. Instead, they "are abomination unto the Lord thy God." They put themselves into the same category as men who want to wear dresses and wigs and make-up so as to look like women. Read what the Apostle Paul was inspired to write about such people in I Corinthians 6:9 and 10. Girls, be happy that you are a girl and that God made you as you are. Then honor the Lord by the way you dress. Wear modest skirts and dresses and leave the men's clothing to men.
WOMEN IN MINI SKIRTS, BIKINIS, AND SHORT SHORTS
Any hemline above the knees is...IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY--perfectly alright! Wear just about anything you like, as short as you like.
However, did you ever stop to wonder what God thinks about what you wear?
First of all let me assure you that the purpose of these words is not to offend you, but rather to offer logical and Scriptural information that you vitally need!
As soon as the hemlines started coming up, morals plunged downward. Forcible rape and sex crimes soared upward, so that the fashion world is taking us all for a wild ride on a merry-go-round of "anything goes!"
In Isaiah 47:2,3, the uncovering of "the thigh" is shown to be "nakedness" and "shame". The dictionary defines the thigh as, "the part of the body between the knee and the hip". When a woman wears a dress that comes above the knees, she exposes her thighs and also her "nakedness and shame."
Even the purpose behind the design of the modern miniskirt was to generate sexual desire from the male populace. Mary Quant, "The mother of the mini-skirt," has been quoted as saying: "Mini-clothes are symbolic of those girls who don't want to wait until after dark to seduce men..." Based on this statement, it would seem that, unless a woman had this seductive purpose in mind, she wouldn't wear such apparel.
*Information taken from Elzinga Tract and Bible Ministry
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