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Originally Posted by nicnap  "Plus, I would not base a practice after the pattern of an idolatrous and stiff necked people." (This was a post 52 by Pilgrim's Progeny)
Sorry...didn't know how to work the quote thing to narrow that down...but even people without earrings and without tattoos and who have nicely trimmed hair and dress to a T in a suit and tie can be stiff-necked and idolatrous. Maybe we should all go to togas and shaved heads....then we wouldn't be dressed as the idolaters...wait; the heart is an idol factory, and we are all stiff-necked...hmmmmm. |
The point I was making was that just because we see a certain practice by God's people, that does not make it right, especially if the people accompanying the practice are caught up in idolatry. I was pointing out that that was not the best context.
Practice does not govern principle, principle governs practice. I was not making a case for or against. I merely believe that that was not very solid ground to erect a principle.
I think the main thing is that we let our adornment be inward, much as Peter instructed the women, should it be no less for us men:
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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Peter 3:3-4
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Everything else aside, it is the heart that matters, for out of the heart flow the issues of life.