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Asking people what the think is necessary to lose salvation might give more interesting answers. There have been some real doozys on the subject before.

I guess I'm thinking in the sense of of not being bound to cultural norms, in the way monks in the middle ages were, they had a slightly different style of dress than most people and definitely had a different hairstyle that wasn't typical of the common population, but they still maintained a...

Do not be conformed to this world,[c] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. "Do not be conformed to this world" sounds like it's telling us to do the opposite and not concern ourselves...

Has anyone considered this might have been written to Corinth because of all their problems with deviant sexual behavior? Paul might have been making that recommendation to help them combat these issues.

That's your idea of clear?

As I recently found out kilts and corsets(actual supportive types, not lingerie).

Here's a good for this time of year, I don't know if it's still in print or not, a docu-drama about hell from the 1970's.

The way I always understood that one is that by modest it means, tidy and decent(not revealing or unkept), with propriety and moderation, meaning not to overdo it. Kinda leaves it blank as far as to what from the attire is to take. I was kinda hoping there would be something more direct about...

Can anyone point out where in the bible, we're expected to present ourselves as "normal for our culture."? all I can find is are verses that seem to say the opposite like "be not conformed to the ways of the world", but none that refer to physical appearances.

Thank you, one of my biggest peeves about our society. The double standards with appearances in modern times is ridiculous.

no.

Puritans can be such snowflakes over the most un-important stuff, they see their culture how they want to see it and expect people to conform to that image. They ignore the gay pride, the gender changing of minors, the letting out of rapists and all the evil crap our culture is normalizing. But...

Basically, at the end paul leaves it up to us to decide anyway, so unless your going for multi-pound monster hair like Absalom, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

No that's a western culture thing(and very old at that, people made that accusation about the monkeys in the 1960's) Ever read the story of Sampson?

ask Sampson, the best theory I've found is that by "long" he means not fussed and done up like how women might do. I haven't studied this much, but it might have been a local cultural thing since Corinth isn't Israel.

once, the answer is actually pretty straight forward, and that's a terrible paraphrase of what he said.

Another portion of the bible that gets abused by people wanting to condemn anything they don't like.

It also says we should not cut the sides of our hair.

favoritism is sin, being closer to certain individuals is not. be mindful of the difference.

society has made masculinity into something it should be. Esau and jacob, esau may have been tough and macho, but god chose jacob, we should remember that.