Essential Baptist Principles_™
As taught in the Holy Scriptures
July  1  2013

Selected Comments

Modesty

Adam and eve covered themselves with fig leafs but God covered them with a coat of skins. Surely that teaches us something about modesty. We have been bombarded with so much nudity in the present day society, that we have just about become desensitized and don’t realize the great departure from biblical principles in our dress. I know that many condemn this view as meddling and think that we should stick to preaching the Gospel and leave these parts of the bible out. I beg to different, the scriptures plainly teach simplicity and modesty in our dress and it should be taught to God’s people. “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. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” (I Timothy 2:9-10) “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel: But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: “(I Peter 3:3-5).
These scriptures mainly refer to the woman but modesty applies equally to the man. Elder Claude McKee

 

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