christian jewelry for men Why do professing christian women.?
Why is it that a woman will confess Christ as their Savior,yet ignore all the teachings of Christ and that of the apostles and desciples?
Modest apparel?,Not wearing of jewelry and fancy hair do's.?Not wearing a prayer covering?Bobbing their hair? Preaching or teaching when this is forbidden ,except that it would be under submission to Godly men which are the leaders (shepherds) of the Church?
...............Oh I know why................its that sin called PRIDE, just not able to simply humble themselves for the Glory of God.
I am an Apostolic Christian and I follow the same standards (holiness) that you have described. However, I don't judge other Christian women for not doing so because the majority have never been taught the importance of holiness standards. However, I like others, don't criticize Christian men for wearing beards, having tattoos, wearing shorts, etc. In many respects men demonstrate as much pride, if not more, than women.
Also I take issue with your misogynist statement that women can not teach or preach in the church unless it is sanctioned by a man. Many of the disciples were women and participated fully in the ministry of the early church. After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of Christians in the first century may have been women.
The letters of Paul - dated to the middle of the first century CE - and his casual greetings to acquaintances offer fascinating and solid information about many Jewish and Gentile women who were prominent in the movement. His letters provide vivid clues about the kind of activities in which women engaged more generally. He greets Prisca, Junia, Julia, and Nereus' sister, who worked and traveled as missionaries in pairs with their husbands or brothers (Romans 16:3, 7, 15). He tells us that Prisca and her husband risked their lives to save his. He praises Junia as a prominent apostle, who had been imprisoned for her labor. Mary and Persis are commended for their hard work (Romans 16:6, 12). Euodia and Syntyche are called his fellow-workers in the gospel (Philippians 4:2-3). Here is clear evidence of women apostles active in the earliest work of spreading the Christian message.
Paul's letters also offer some important glimpses into the inner workings of ancient Christian churches. These groups did not own church buildings but met in homes, no doubt due in part to the fact that Christianity was not legal in the Roman world of its day and in part because of the enormous expense to such fledgling societies. Such homes were a domain in which women played key roles. It is not surprising then to see women taking leadership roles in house churches. Paul tells of women who were the leaders of such house churches (Apphia in Philemon 2; Prisca in I Corinthians 16:19). This practice is confirmed by other texts that also mention women who headed churches in their homes, such as Lydia of Thyatira (Acts 16:15) and Nympha of Laodicea (Colossians 4:15). Women held offices and played significant roles in group worship. Paul, for example, greets a deacon named Phoebe (Romans 16:1) and assumes that women are praying and prophesying during worship (I Corinthians 11). As prophets, women's roles would have included not only ecstatic public speech, but preaching, teaching, leading prayer, and perhaps even performing the Eucharist meal.
My girlfriend and I have been together for about 5 months now and we both really like each other. The only thing that bothers me a bit is her religion. She is Apostolic, specifically known as the Apostolic Assembly. I am a tolerant man and normally would not be bothered by any religion, it's just that I find it so intrusive. She has a multitude of ridiculous restrictions such as not being allowed to wear jewelry and makeup or paint her fingernails. In addition, like many other Christian denominations, her religion designates homosexuals as sinners which is a problem for me because I have many good friends who are gay. I think this is enough for you to get the picture. Anyone got good advice for me?
Everyone is a sinner, and all sins are equal in God's eyes. Plus, being gay is not a sin... the sin is the ACT of being gay. (Male sleeping with a male, woman sleeping with another woman.) I'm not sure how it transfers into her religion, though. I'm just making sure you understand (most of) the Christian ones.
Now, I don't know why her not being able to paint her fingernails or wear make up and jewelry would be such a big deal to you, so you might want to let that go. There's no sense in starting a fight over something like this.
As for the "gay friends" thing, you can't make her like them or accept them, but you could ask her to be tolerant of them as they are YOUR friends. She doesn't have to agree with their morals to be nice to them, or vice versa for your friends.
Toleration is the answer. Teach her to be tolerant of your friends as she is being tolerant of you (someone outside of her religion.) Tolerate and respect her religion and morals, and teach her to be that way of your friends as well.
Who cares if she agrees with it or not? It's not her life or her choices, so she'll just have to learn to TOLERATE it. Si?
