I believe more references to jewelry can be found attributed to women in the bible than to men. Jewelry just seems natural to me, to be implied as a women's thing than to men because that's what it seems to me biblically speaking. Few examples:
1Tim 2:9 1Pet 3:3
Notice that in just the two above examples, the women were being directed not the men.
The verse doesn't say that it is wrong for women to wear them at all, but does imply that
during worship and/or praise setting, they were the ones not to wear them.(v.12)
Since men weren't addressed it seems to me that men did not wear them, that they were acceptable (and exclusively) WOMEN'S ATTIRE. Therefore, for men to wear what was once (exclusively imo)women's attire in history, today, and use the reasoning that it is now acceptable men's attire, is a bit weak.
It is weak because you can then use this kind of reasoning for just about anything. For example, in American culture, lipstick is acceptable (and exclusively so) for women. If all the men of the west-coast of the United States start using lipstick, and people start to say, “There is no prohibition in the bible”, well then yes It’s true you can’t find it explicitly opposed to biblical orthopraxy. All you can use against it would be that:
---men are not to dress as women
---lipstick is acceptable exclusively for women
---therefore men may not use it.
I think that the problem here is that between the time of the 2nd and 3rd points, there has not been enough of a questioning about the 1st point that it has become normal culture today.
To conclude, the same line of logical reasoning can be found in men’s earings;
---men are not to dress as women
---earings is acceptable exclusively for women
---therefore men may not use it.
If no one says anything about men wearing lipstick long enough, it will become acceptable and the bible will not be consulted on the verse, “men are not to dress as women”.
I feel that it is never too late for Christians to always reform and go to the meaning behind the bible. I don't claim to know it perfectly, I only say that this is what the bible seems to indicate to me. I may be wrong, but it is the simplest reading that I see. Even if our culture has been wrong for the past 50 years, I believe men should go to the original intent.
Please excuse my poor English.
