IFB - Showing Your Thighs Is Sin

[Bob M]

(04-19-2012 12:47 PM)JoeR Wrote:  

(04-19-2012 12:30 PM)Bob M Wrote:  I must be the worst of sinners then.

So you ARE a woman?

Nope. its my participation in the sin that is the problem. I love legs.

[pastor's wife]

(04-19-2012 12:03 PM)Disco_Dancing_Hyles Wrote:  Jack Hyles said that women showing thighs was the ultimate sin.

Pfffft.

He'd rant and rail about Catholics obeying a Pope, but his followers are supposed to just accept whatever he said without Biblical support?

Let's see: genocide, child abuse, rape, murder, mutilation, violence, torture, hypocrisy, misuse of power to exploit the helpless, greed -- Well, maybe those are sins, but the REAL SIN is women wearing shorts.

*please excuse me while I go throw up in the toilet in absolute disgust*

[FmrMarine]

"Let's see: genocide, child abuse, rape, murder, mutilation, violence, torture, hypocrisy, misuse of power to exploit the helpless, greed." Pretty much all condoned throughout the OT. As to the original topic, I have certainly seen some offensive thighs before... mostly at peopleofwalmart.com.

[Jenni]

It amazes me how so many IFB churches focus on things like this - showing thighs, reading a different translation of the Bible, listening to wrong music, etc. - when there are so many other things we could do that would be a better way to show the world God's love. Like, maybe instead of building a new auditorium, we could send money to build some wells in Africa so people have clean drinking water or we could donate to a local food pantry so people who are jobless in this economy can still feed their kids ...

This is exactly why I left the IFB behind and am now happily participating in a church where we are active in our community - not to convert people, but to show them God's love by meeting some of their obvious physical needs.

[richao]

Quote:Many IFB churches would agree with this teaching can someone rightly interpret Isaiah 47:2-3 and Ezekiel 28:42 in it's proper context?

Using Isaiah 47:2-3 to justify a prohibition on showing too much leg is a profound misuse of the text. First, note that nothing in the text suggests that it is a command to be obeyed. But more importantly, reading the text in this way suggests that, as CS Lewis said of practitioners of some forms of biblical criticism, the interpreter may have read the Bible but hasn't read much else.

A more plausible explanation of the passage than one that derives eternal standards from it is that God is describing his shaming of them in terms that the readers, in that age and place, could understand. For them, exposure of the skin was shameful, so it made sense to describe God's shaming of them in these terms. For most people living in modern American, it's not, and if Isaiah were speaking to us, he might use a starker degree of nakedness--of a level that most people would find shameful--or perhaps something along the lines of, "Grow long thy sideburns, and place upon thy legs the polyester, bell-bottomed pants; makest thou thyself to appear as a hippie, a raving lunatic, and thy shame shall be seen."

If fundamentalists actually read real books in addition to the Bible (not saying that the Bible isn't a real book, but most fundies who read something other than the Bible aren't reading what I would consider real books), they might actually be capable not taking every single word of scripture literally.

[amyrose5]

(05-02-2012 08:53 AM)Jenni Wrote:  It amazes me how so many IFB churches focus on things like this - showing thighs, reading a different translation of the Bible, listening to wrong music, etc. - when there are so many other things we could do that would be a better way to show the world God's love. Like, maybe instead of building a new auditorium, we could send money to build some wells in Africa so people have clean drinking water or we could donate to a local food pantry so people who are jobless in this economy can still feed their kids ...

This is exactly why I left the IFB behind and am now happily participating in a church where we are active in our community - not to convert people, but to show them God's love by meeting some of their obvious physical needs.

In the words of U2:

You speak of signs and wonders
I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

[beth]

(04-19-2012 12:03 PM)Disco_Dancing_Hyles Wrote:  Jack Hyles said that women showing thighs was the ultimate sin.

So I'm guessing he and his secretary had sex with a towel over her thighs so the whole thing would be ok? And so sorry for that mental image. A round of brain bleach for all!

[SomethingFundy]

is going to go oaf at something now
thanks, thanks a lot

[Bob M]

(05-03-2012 10:42 PM)beth Wrote:  

(04-19-2012 12:03 PM)Disco_Dancing_Hyles Wrote:  Jack Hyles said that women showing thighs was the ultimate sin.

So I'm guessing he and his secretary had sex with a towel over her thighs so the whole thing would be ok? And so sorry for that mental image. A round of brain bleach for all!

Oh, nasty. I am picturing this 60-something ugly Fundy woman with a flower print dress and cheap jewelry and Old Jack Hyles clearing his throat as he says "Cover the thighs, Jennie."

[beth]

(05-04-2012 11:50 AM)Bob M Wrote:  

(05-03-2012 10:42 PM)beth Wrote:  So I'm guessing he and his secretary had sex with a towel over her thighs so the whole thing would be ok? And so sorry for that mental image. A round of brain bleach for all!

Oh, nasty. I am picturing this 60-something ugly Fundy woman with a flower print dress and cheap jewelry and Old Jack Hyles clearing his throat as he says "Cover the thighs, Jennie."

hehehe. eewww.