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Christian Modesty in Today's Culture
Today's culture is reaching the level of immorality of the ancient Canaanites, who committed many abominable things. School shootings and abortion bring to mind the atrocities of the Canaanites who burned their children in the worship of Moloch. These also bring to mind the Aztecs who regularly conducted human sacrifice rituals on central American pyramids.
And, in the same way that the ancient Israelites removed much of their clothing when they rebelled against God at the time that Moses went up into Mount Sinai (a.k.a. Mt. Horeb) (See Exodus 32), people in western culture have become more and more immodest in their clothing choices.
The swimwear that people wear today does not match with what God says in His Word about how men and women ought to dress. The bikini is a clothing choice that reveals more than it conceals. It produces lust in men, and it contradicts what God's Word says about good morals. Women wearing bikinis draw men's attention to their bodies instead of toward their faces. This is a deep problem in our society.
Tight pants; tight shirts; short shorts; short dresses; clothing that reveals cleavage; bikinis; women's swimwear that exposes a woman's thighs, or her belly, or her back; and any clothing that draws men to look at a woman's body are all immodest. (Enough said about that.)
There is a reason why women wear such immodest clothing, and this is a deep problem. But, this deep problem has a wonderful solution. We will look at that wonderful solution later in this article.
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THE EVIL LURE OF LUST
Jesus Christ said this truth in Matthew 5:27-29:
"[27] Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: [28] But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. [29] And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
