Midterm

Question 1

What 2 things do all issues of holiness start with?

Answer 1

1. God is God and we are not

2. He is the creator and knows best

Question 2

Can we trust God has our best interest at heart? How do we know?

Answer 2

Yes. God has a good track record

Question 3

List an example of God’s wisdom and blessing people beyond their knowledge

Answer 3

1. Levitical Law and the treatment of the dead.

2. The Middle Ages and the black plague.

Question 4

What is the gift of holiness and its purpose?

Answer 4

God intends for us to be saved from the corruption of the world through lust. He intends for blessing to be given to us.

Question 5

What are God’s commands meant to give us?

Answer 5

Freedom from sin

Question 6

What is not a good definition of freedom?

Answer 6

Freedom to do what we want to do

Question 7

What is the highest level of freedom?

Answer 7

Freedom to do what you should do

Question 8

Does the Bible say anything about non-functional ornamentation or Jewelry? If so, what?

Answer 8

Yes. The Bible condemns it.

Question 9

What does Paul say in 1 Corinthians 10:11 about the OT examples?

Answer 9

That they happened for examples and were written to warn us.

Question 10

What does the Bible say about colorful cosmetics?

Answer 10

It is the mark of harlotry

Question 11

Should God’s women wear them?

Answer 11

No.

Question 12

Can we find prescriptions against makeup and jewelry in the NT as well?

Answer 12

Yes. 1 Peter 3:3,5 Peter affirms the standard as being the same as the OT.

Question 13

What does the Bible show us?

Answer 13

That colorful cosmetics and jewelry are connected to

1. Sin
2. Apostasy
3. Heathenism

Question 14

List a scripture that deals with separation of the sexes in dress.

Answer 14

Deuteronomy 22:5

Question 15

What should always be asked in conjunction when asking about women’s pants?

Answer 15

Are men’s dresses okay?

Question 16

What does Deut. 22:5 call mixing dress?

Answer 16

An abomination

Question 17

What other things are called an abomination?

Answer 17

Homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality

Question 18

Who can wear garments that are functionally able to gird the loins?

Answer 18

Men

Question 19

What did girding the loins do for men and when was it used?

Answer 19

To protect them. It was used during work and war.

Question 20

What is the separation of sexes as clear as?

Answer 20

The bathroom door

Question 21

What are some cultural sayings that inform this issue?

Answer 21

“You can tell who wears the pants in the family”

When do I get to wear the pants?

Question 22

What does a look at history show us?

Answer 22

Holiness was started before the outpouring of the Holy Ghost in the 1900’s. Apostolics didn’t create it, we just still follow it.

Question 23

What is a starting point for us to tell other denominations?

Answer 23

“You used to practice this too.”

Question 24

If we really want to know what God wants and what Scripture teaches, what must we not say?

Answer 24

“I think” and rely on it as God’s opinion. We must first name God’s opinion and then fight or disagree with it.

Question 25

Where is God’s opinion?

Answer 25

In scripture

Question 26

What does holiness do?

Answer 26

It protects us from the world and the enemy that tempts us.

Question 27

John 14:30 says, “...the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.” What did this verse mean?

Answer 27

As a man, Jesus was so committed to the will of God that Satan could not get a hold on Him in any part of His life. This is the victory that God has available to us through the power of the Spirit and the understanding of his word.

Question 28

What does “Integrity” in Hebrew mean? NOT COVERED

Answer 28

Personal purity, or righteousness

Question 29

Scripture says a man “...thinketh in his heart so is he…” | Jesus said in Mt. 6:21 “where your treasure is” your “heart will be also.”

Answer 29

Prov. 23:7

Question 30

In the article we looked at did the author try to use Hebrew to clarify or make ambiguous the meaning of Deut. 22:5?

Answer 30

Ambiguous

Question 31

Did the author ever mention “breeches” or “girding the loins” once in his writings?

Answer 31

No

Question 32

Has there ever been a translation that has translated Deut. 22:5 his way?

Answer 32

No

Question 33

Do we argue that pants are a cultural issue?

Answer 33

No

Question 34

Where should we go to find out what men’s attire women shouldn’t wear?

Answer 34

Scripture

Question 35

What is the most important gender distinction in men and women’s dress?

Answer 35

The most important gender distinction was not simply what they wore but how they wore it. (girding the loins)

Question 36

Were there male and female ways of utilizing clothing?

Answer 36

Yes

Question 37

What did priests wear that women could not?

Answer 37

Breeches

Question 38

What did the later English word “britches” developed from this term, as did our modern concept of “pants”?

Answer 38

Breeches

Question 39

How long were pants worn exclusively by men for?

Answer 39

5900 years

Question 40

Did the author of the article show a difference in dress that made Deut. 22:5 mean anything at all?

Answer 40

No.

Question 41

Does it seem like the author thought that he was the only expert in Hebrew who has finally understood that Deut. 22:5 means hardly anything at all?

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Did he convince you that he was also an expert on all the clothing in biblical times?

Answer 42

No

Question 43

Do you buy his argument that if you disagree you don’t know the mind of God? Why or why not?

Answer 43

No because God's word is true. "Let every man be a liar"