Why do Apostolic Pentecostals fully cover themselves with clothing?

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• Tulsa, try it. I've submitted mult. answers to the same ?s before & they'd accept it. If they reject, then extend this answer

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  by Tondoteottotote on October 18th, 2005

• The first author needs to correct his history. He is all wrong on the history of the women's movement and the history of women wearing pants in our country. Dress reform was one of the debated issues regarding women's welfare during the Victorian era. Amelia Jenks Bloomer introduced Turkish pantaloons, dubbed "bloomers" by the press, having adopted them from a CULTURE where pants were not men's wear.

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  by springissprung on April 7th, 2011

• According to the Written Word of God, we refer to as the Bible, and not the "Womens Movement", we absolutely do follow what is holy and just from the inside to the outside, in our dress, our hair, our speech, and our lifestyle. When it is 105 outside, life is hot. None of us wear clothing that is suggestive, so as to cause the other gender to think anything other than what is at hand. It is to keep a prayerful and respectful lifestyle, and nothing more, no less. (Cannot speak for those that swim openly as above mentioned,because that is also true, and a private thing, where women bathe apart from and out of sight from the men, in true holiness fashion) Nothing is meant for disrespect, nor to put anyone to shame. It is a whole lifestyle, we choose as individuals to live for as a holy people, set aside and apart from the mainstream living. We derived from the first church formed after Jesus died on the cross, and believe in the Bible as a whole. There is nothing repressed or set back about us. Many of us are highly educated, and very blessed. It is simply a lifestyle choice. True pentecostal people love each other and everyone deeply, just as the Lord did and does. We welcome visitors in with open arms, and readily help the less fortunate as if they were our own family. If our state of dress confuses people, causing scratching of the head, I can see that, and believe me when I say, it really is a choice we each make. No one and nothing pushes us to this, we each just love the Lord this much. It truly does come from within.. :)

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  by heidi.carleton on June 20th, 2011

• My comment was not in response to TulsaDavid's answer. I don't understand the apparent mix-up.
  
  Yes, the Pentecostal/Apostolic teaching against women's pants is based in part upon a lack of historical knowledge regarding pants--their invention, proper-- and history of the first women's movement in our country, which introduced women's pants into our culture in 1851. They also lack a study into ancient Biblical dress.
  
  Pants were the invention of the Medes & Persians in the 4th cen BC and were worn by BOTH sexes. Pants were not invented for men, and neither were men the first to wear them. Pants took on male, (abusive) authority symbolism in 1340, while Europe was essentially ruled over by the Catholic Church. God had absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to do with it. Pants on men and dresses on women was a cultural concept enforced into law by the Catholic Church and reflects the "heirarchial" view of marriage and the disdain of women held by the Catholic Church. Our European forefathers brought this cultural concept over here where it was put into American law. The first women's movement destroyed the symbolism of male authority invoked upon pants in the Middle Ages.
  
  Clothing is an issue of CULTURE--not Biblical mandates--and varies with nationality and historical era. The word, "skirt", appears 12 times in the Bible, and every time refers to the skirt of a MAN. "Skirts," plural, is used 7 times and refers to BOTH men and women. In the ancient cultures of the people of the Bible--the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans-- "skirts" were not "feminine" but more of a "unisex" garment.
  
  We cannot reach God through our clothes. God said to rend your heart, not your garment. The Pharisees put on an outward look of holiness, but Jesus said they were hypocrites and self-righteous.
  
  I would also add that a man's lust is his own problem. Jesus did not blame a woman for a man's lust. The Catholic Church blamed women for men's lust.

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  by springissprung on June 23rd, 2011