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I just finished a movie called "Me Again" staring David A.R. White. It is a Christian movie, he has done quite a few movies and one with Stephen Baldwin called Six: Mark Unleashed
Now in the movie his character swaps from body to body, once he goes into a model, next he goes into an older woman, lastly he goes into his wife's body, this was all to teach him a lesson about how people were seeing him and how he saw himself, he was loosing his faith.
Now as a Christian myself I see nothing wrong with wearing garments that society has decided belong to the opposite sex. You can say what you like that this is just Hollywood and a movie, but he is still wearing the garments. Pink used to be a boys color in America in the 1800s, blue was a woman's color. Now a days women can wear anything a man can wear and not be judged as a sinner, and yet men cannot wear feminine and delicate garments. the bible does not speak about fashion choices nor does it determine who wears what, we as humans have been doing that.
I think people have a jaded view when It comes to Deuteronomy 22:5
What about this issue of "gender role?" The first thing to note is that the two places the word "clothing" appear in the translation of this verse are really two different words in the Hebrew original. "Men's clothing" represents the Hebrew "keli-never" which means "all of the things of manhood", i.e. clothes, armor, weapons, tools, etc. "Women's clothing" represents the Hebrew word "simlath" which was the square mantel that women wore. These two terms are paired in a list in 1 Kings 10:25 where in the NIV the translation is "robes and weapons."
Therefore a better translation of this verse might be:
A woman must not wear men's gear, nor a man wear women's robes, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
This seems to imply that what we are talking about in this verse is not clothing, but the masculine and feminine roles of protector and homemaker.
It is possible that one motivation for this condemnation was to prevent men from hiding among the women to avoid their civic duty just as in 1 Samuel 10:17-24 Saul hid himself among the baggage.
So back to the movie, i don't really see the harm in the movie at all, maybe some of you see harm there but i see nothing bad inherently about it. I know men and women who cross dress and they are also Christian.
Now in the movie his character swaps from body to body, once he goes into a model, next he goes into an older woman, lastly he goes into his wife's body, this was all to teach him a lesson about how people were seeing him and how he saw himself, he was loosing his faith.
Now as a Christian myself I see nothing wrong with wearing garments that society has decided belong to the opposite sex. You can say what you like that this is just Hollywood and a movie, but he is still wearing the garments. Pink used to be a boys color in America in the 1800s, blue was a woman's color. Now a days women can wear anything a man can wear and not be judged as a sinner, and yet men cannot wear feminine and delicate garments. the bible does not speak about fashion choices nor does it determine who wears what, we as humans have been doing that.
I think people have a jaded view when It comes to Deuteronomy 22:5
What about this issue of "gender role?" The first thing to note is that the two places the word "clothing" appear in the translation of this verse are really two different words in the Hebrew original. "Men's clothing" represents the Hebrew "keli-never" which means "all of the things of manhood", i.e. clothes, armor, weapons, tools, etc. "Women's clothing" represents the Hebrew word "simlath" which was the square mantel that women wore. These two terms are paired in a list in 1 Kings 10:25 where in the NIV the translation is "robes and weapons."
Therefore a better translation of this verse might be:
A woman must not wear men's gear, nor a man wear women's robes, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
This seems to imply that what we are talking about in this verse is not clothing, but the masculine and feminine roles of protector and homemaker.
It is possible that one motivation for this condemnation was to prevent men from hiding among the women to avoid their civic duty just as in 1 Samuel 10:17-24 Saul hid himself among the baggage.
So back to the movie, i don't really see the harm in the movie at all, maybe some of you see harm there but i see nothing bad inherently about it. I know men and women who cross dress and they are also Christian.
