By Don Boys, Ph.D.
Some females are without shame and have no sense of Christian propriety, common decency, and biblical principles.
Sharon Hodde Miller, a doctoral student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, said, “A woman’s breasts and buttocks and thighs all proclaim the glory of the Lord.” Yes, we are fearfully and wonderfully made but God did not expect this “glory of the Lord” to be observed by everyone everywhere, especially in church.
She said, “Modesty is an orientation of the heart, first and foremost. It begins with putting God first.” In that, she is correct; however, if God is first in one’s life, he or she will seek to do all to the glory of God. A woman is very unchristian if she uses her bouncing breasts, swaying buttocks, or exposed flesh to influence any man other than her husband. It is also a blasphemous use of the female body.
Nutty, shameless feminists in Fort Collins, Colorado, have contended that male and female breasts are identical! Women brandished their bare bouncing breasts along with signs proclaiming, “My breasts are no more sexual than my mouth or my hands,” “Honk for gender equality,” and “Free the NIP.”
This is not your father’s world!
My deceased philosopher father, with a sixth-grade education, would say, “This world is nuttier than a fruitcake.” And he would have found it incredible that professing Christians would defend immodest dress.
Some Evangelical and Fundamentalist youth wear shirts declaring “Modest is Hottest” or the reverse, although I can’t imagine Christians wearing something like that. Whatever one’s definition of “hottest,” it obviously has a sexual connotation. Why send the wrong message to others? I wonder what parents are doing in the parenting department.
Are Christians to be “hot”? That kind of sexual suggestion is not conducive to the body being the Temple of the Holy Spirit. However, non-thinkers tell us never to correct our children since it might stunt their development, and they might even throw a hissy. Can’t have that. They also may think they are unloved.
Christians are not to draw attention to self but to Christ. In Matthew 23:5, Christ rebuked the scribes and Pharisees saying, “But all their works they do for to be seen of men…and enlarge their borders.” Enlarge borders refers to Jews who wore fringes on their robes as commanded in Numbers 15:38-39 to remind them to keep the Commandments. However, some Jews went beyond God’s command and enlarged the borders to draw attention to themselves. Likewise, people dress outrageously and do strange things to their bodies to attract attention to themselves.
I have often wondered why a beautiful young woman would put metal in her face. For sure, while it will attract people’s attention, it is not attractive. Principled people should know why they believe and practice certain things and not make decisions without reasonable thought.
Paul’s command in Philippians 2:5 to have the mind of Christ will eliminate seductive clothing, inappropriate clothing, piercings, tattoos, expensive jewelry, green hair, Mohawk haircuts, and pants drooping below the 38th parallel. Christians are not to draw attention to self but to Christ. Believers were called Christians in Antioch because they reminded people of Christ. Many modern Christians remind me of circus performers. Shocking, shameful, and salacious dress (or activity) should be unacceptable to decent people.