Just noticed there's no topic here on this much-discussed subject, which I've seen discussed at length on practically every Christian board I've vistited!
The question: Is it sinful for women to wear pants?
The usual Fundie, Pentecostal, or Jabroney False Witless answer: Deut. 22: 5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a womans garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.
My answer: WOMENS' PANTS DO NOT PERTAIN TO A MAN!
Womens' and mens' pants are cut differently, fit differently, and almost always embellished differently.
To say pants in general are mens' clothes is poppycock. And try telling a 275-lb Scotsman in a kilt that he's wearing womens' clothes.
In Jesus' time, Jewish men & women dressed much-more alike than they now do. The main way they discerned men from women was stature, beard, bling, & clothes colors. (Besides voices, of course.)Womens' veils & mens' burnooses resembled each other. Mens' & womens' sandals were quite alike.
Of course there were certain items, mainly underclothes, that were gender-specific. I believe that was what God had in mind when He gave the Deut. 22:5 command.
I reckon that whoever dreamed up the "pants on women are a sin" hooey never lived in Barrow, AK or Siberia, worked on a farm, climbed ladders, etc.
BTW, I am a "Fundie", an IFB, but my church is free of the man-made rules often associated with Fundies. If it aint in the Bible, it aint a rule for us.
The question: Is it sinful for women to wear pants?
The usual Fundie, Pentecostal, or Jabroney False Witless answer: Deut. 22: 5 A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a womans garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.
My answer: WOMENS' PANTS DO NOT PERTAIN TO A MAN!
Womens' and mens' pants are cut differently, fit differently, and almost always embellished differently.
To say pants in general are mens' clothes is poppycock. And try telling a 275-lb Scotsman in a kilt that he's wearing womens' clothes.
In Jesus' time, Jewish men & women dressed much-more alike than they now do. The main way they discerned men from women was stature, beard, bling, & clothes colors. (Besides voices, of course.)Womens' veils & mens' burnooses resembled each other. Mens' & womens' sandals were quite alike.
Of course there were certain items, mainly underclothes, that were gender-specific. I believe that was what God had in mind when He gave the Deut. 22:5 command.
I reckon that whoever dreamed up the "pants on women are a sin" hooey never lived in Barrow, AK or Siberia, worked on a farm, climbed ladders, etc.
BTW, I am a "Fundie", an IFB, but my church is free of the man-made rules often associated with Fundies. If it aint in the Bible, it aint a rule for us.
