Originally Posted by
DiscipleDave
If what you are wearing, you think will cause others to lust, is dressing immodestly.
If what you are wearing, you think will not cause anyone to lust, that is dressed modestly.
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DiscipleDave.com
First, do you agree the defintion of modesty you used isn't the way it was used in 1Ti 2:9?
1Ti 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
The definition of modesty that i used is directly related to the underlined bold statement above. 1 Timothy 2:9 is merely instructing women to dress modestly, what we are discussing is what it means to dress modestly. Thereby to dress modestly is to dress in such a way that a person feels it will not cause others to lust. To dress immodestly is to dress in such a way that a person desires others to lust.
If so, that's fine: but point two becomes very important.
point two is merely pointing out that they should not wear such things (broided hair, gold, silver, expensive clothes) that cause others to lust.
Second, do you believe it's a sin to dress immodestly? On what basis?
Yes, because we are commanded NOT to put a stumbling block in the way of our Brothers and/or Sisters.
1Co 8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
1Co 8:10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
1Co 8:11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
1Co 8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1Co 8:13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
By the way a person dresses can indeed cause others to stumble because they are weak, and will lust because how you chose to dress.
Rom_14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
If you choose to dress in such a way that you KNOW will cause others to lust, how have you NOT put a stumblingblock in their way?
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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††
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