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Originally Posted by Archlute  Quote:
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Originally Posted by Archlute
The culture which prevailed before relatively recent times when it then became marginally acceptable for men to wear women's jewelry in public.
| Take a look at some Renaissance era paintings and tell us if you still think earrings on men is a relatively recent phenomenon.
I don't wear earrings, but don't think there's anything good or bad about men wearing them... | In my days as an art student and a music major I have viewed plenty of Renaissance and Baroque era paintings and have not noticed the practice. However, I was speaking of American times where at least some influence of Christian/Puritan ideals were still influential. Which brings us to a broader discussion of cultural normativity in morality. Do we set our moral standards by cultural consensus, as seems to be argued here, or do we look for deeper principles that transcend the culture, such as those found in the various applications of the Decalogue in the Larger Catechism, inference from apostolic injunctions, and the careful writings of Puritan casuistry? We are still known here as the "Puritan Board", correct?
P.S. Were you looking at paintings of Ishmaelites?  |
Adam, does this suffice?
Ex 32:2-4
Aaron answered them, "Take off the gold earrings that your wives,
your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me." So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool.
Ezekiel 16:12-AV And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.