Cheryl

Thanks Greg!

I could never understand why these men can see “sex” when the text explains what the immodest styles are – expensive dresses, gold and costly jewelry and extravagant hair styles.  That is, until I started to read the Talmud and saw that they blamed the woman if she was walking in front of the man and her ankle became uncovered.  To some men anything is a sexual enticement even a fully covered woman in a shapeless robe and a head covering but with a bare ankle!  Then I understood.  What was written by Paul to encourage women to show their character as their beauty instead of their expensive adornment has been twisted into a modern day advise against short skirts and tight sweaters.  While that advise is wise, it isn’t what Paul was saying.  This is taking our modern culture and transforming it into biblical times.  This just isn’t possible and we need to look more carefully at the words and the context to understand it properly.