Should Christian Women Wear Bikinis?
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Who would have thought back in the 19th century that "shame" and "modesty" and "purity" would be almost a thing of the past. Back in my teenage years young ladies in bathing suits at swim pool parties were asked to put on a T shirt so not to show too much. Now we need to ask girls and women to put a sleeping bag over them selves. My wife and I don't go to public swimming places.
The lack of shame has almost been lost in most people. What is now a bigger issue is young people who come to surrender to Jesus Christ as LORD, now have to be taught modesty and what shame is.
My wife likes to wear dresses and there have been times in church only two or three ladies are in dresses, most women are in shorts (not above the knee) nad pants. When visitors come sometimes their dress is not modest at all. Our world has made much effort to make women look anything but modest. Now we see girls as young as seven or eight with eye make up and clothes that show as much as grown women. Training girls this young, instills the desire to dress with exposing more flesh. There is always someone more daring and willing to get more attention from the guys. Christian moms have a hard time finding clothes for their daughters and themselves.
To be a true Christian is becoming more of a challenge and in all ways from our language, to clothes, and even the vehicles we drive and how we drive. Yes to be a christian it will require us to stand out even more.
Blessings.
farout
The lack of shame has almost been lost in most people. What is now a bigger issue is young people who come to surrender to Jesus Christ as LORD, now have to be taught modesty and what shame is.
My wife likes to wear dresses and there have been times in church only two or three ladies are in dresses, most women are in shorts (not above the knee) nad pants. When visitors come sometimes their dress is not modest at all. Our world has made much effort to make women look anything but modest. Now we see girls as young as seven or eight with eye make up and clothes that show as much as grown women. Training girls this young, instills the desire to dress with exposing more flesh. There is always someone more daring and willing to get more attention from the guys. Christian moms have a hard time finding clothes for their daughters and themselves.
To be a true Christian is becoming more of a challenge and in all ways from our language, to clothes, and even the vehicles we drive and how we drive. Yes to be a christian it will require us to stand out even more.
Blessings.
farout
I think it's a myth that the amount of clothing one wears is related to promiscuity or lust in general. What about reverse psychology? Women in dresses can be more attractive than women in jeans.. why? Because for the man it's the thrill of wondering or knowing what's under the dress. Women don't think like this so they wouldn't understand. I think it's all relative. In the olden days a man might lust if he saw a little bit of ankle or knee. These days seeing women in skimpy outfits, not just bikinis, is so common it is almost unnoticeable. It has to be relative to your culture and your environment. For example on nudist beaches they are not lusting after each other, they are used to seeing people without clothes. Same with tribal cultures that wear little or no clothing. If you're going to wear a bikini to an Amish beach party you will obviously be inciting men to lust. Don't wear one. At the regular public beach?. Unlikely, and if you only wear it when you're in the water, and put on some shorts or a towel on the sand, there's really no problem.
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I think many men I know would disagree with this.
And even if men don't lust
And even if the women in question aren't promiscuous....
I do not believe that this makes wearing a bikini okay
It is totally against the Biblical instruction that a woman should be modestly dressed.
Forgive me please for being judgmental but I fail to see how wearing bikinis or any other scanty clothing is for any reason other than flaunting oneself
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Timothy 2:9
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I see nothing wrong with a woman deciding to wear a bikini, just as there is nothing wrong with a man deciding to wear swimming trunks, assuming a woman is putting it on with the intention of going to a pool or the beach and not just to take pictures in. The problem is not the article of clothing but the need for people to over-sexualise things, the fact is a body is a body, something natural which God intentionally meant for humans to show, this is something clearly illustrated in the Bible (if you're a fundamentalist and take Genesis and Adam & Eve literally) so wearing a bikini is not sexually immoral. If arguments against wearing a bikini is that it can be used to seduce men or anything similar then the real question to be asked is whether or not it is the men sexualising the woman that it behaving inappropriately.
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Ladies have mercy! We men are weak.
Romans 14:19-23
19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Not quite following your logic here. As a regular beach goer..never never seen a woman flaunt herself in a bikini at the beach. People go to the beach to swim, surf or tan. Most are uncomfortable/modest about their body image and so cover up or try to be unnoticed. A lot of women look bad in a bikini, just like a lot of men look bad with their shirt off. Many women wear shorts or cover with a towel out of the water. I think women wear bikinis to make tanning easier and they can be more practical - going to toilet, removing sand, drying time, dressing/undressing etc. The place for women flaunting is nightclubs, after having a few intoxicating drinks, where they wear considerably more clothing than a bikini.
I would point out that in 1 Timothy 2:9 modest apparel means "not extravagant", hence "no costly array", not luxurious and fine dress. Paul was addressing the issue of women wearing fine luxurious clothes in church, not wearing bikinis and skimpy clothing.
In our modern times, nakedness means uncovered private parts, or being without clothing completely. But in bible times, nakedness means majority amounts of skin uncovered by clothing, not just private areas. For this reason women should not wear bikinis or any revealing clothing.
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Wow, so where do you live and what beach is this? I've been to multiple "very busy" beaches on Long Island, NJ, Florida, Bahamas, etc. Most women love to flaunt their stuff.
Why do you think Satan uses sex to lure men and women into his schemes? Isn't this obvious? The beach and bikinis are not exceptional whatsoever.
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I agree with Chad's post......I live in a coastal area of Australia......and as Chad said women (and men) just seem to want to flaunt their stuff. And bikini's seem to get skimpier and skimpier.....there is no modesty. I would say there is more competition for who can look the 'sexiest and most appealing'
For the Christian woman......whose life and body is only meant to bring glory to the Lord......a bikini (and any other skimpy clothing) is not acceptable.
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Well I'm not American so, maybe my country is much more conservative
. But from what I watch on TV I believe you, but I don't think it is a general case that bikini = lust = sex. I think there are many more factors, e.g. it depends what is the fabric, cut, style, color, how much it reveals, what does the person look like in a bikini, and does that person appeal to another person's taste etc.God put certain desires in each of us . When we allow them to get control of us ? Then we sin.
We are capable of over doing about anything ? We are creatures of habit . The habit can grow and become a problem ;. Quickly in some cases.
But at the same time ? He has already declared each of who belong to HIM . More than conquerors and over comers . \
We just need to know how we over come and obey HIS living Words and do it .
We are capable of over doing about anything ? We are creatures of habit . The habit can grow and become a problem ;. Quickly in some cases.
But at the same time ? He has already declared each of who belong to HIM . More than conquerors and over comers . \
We just need to know how we over come and obey HIS living Words and do it .
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I watched the whole thing and I completely agree with what she said.
I looked up her bathing suit line though and I wouldn't say they were modest. More modest than a bikini, but they still scream look at me. Maybe it is the poses and expressions of the girls, body language.
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Even some non-Christian women are uncomfortable with the amount of skin that bikinis show. I know it might mean being old-fashioned or out-of-style, but bikinis are not good to wear in public. I guess if you have a private swimming pool at home, that's fine. But not on the beach or public swimming pools etc. I think a normal full swimsuit with a wrap is much better.
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I was perusing my Facebook today and noticed some pics from a Christian woman I know who has a son who is about 13 years old. He was in his pool with another male friend and two young developed girls. the second picture was of all four of them posing arm in arm for the camera. One girl was wearing a modest full suit, and the other was wearing a most skimpy bikini. I was aghast. This mother doesn't have a say on how other people's girls dress, but if it were my son, I'd tell her to stay dressed or get another suit if she wants to swim with my son!
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Unfortunately, nobody's son is the center of the universe. Therefore you wouldn't be able to tell someone else's daughter to dress differently in order to use a swimming pool. The only solution is to keep your son away from the swimming pool.
However, he's going to see women in bikinis on TV, in magazines and newspapers, on the streets, on billboards, on the internet. What can really be done about that? You can only teach him the right attitude for approaching these situations.
As I was looking down the "new post's" it came to me. Not only Christian women should not ware bikini's but froma realistic point of view, no woman should ware bikini's. Considering men are most likely to be consumed with lust when see ing a woman so undressed. After all a bikini is to attract men by allowing men to see how much flesh she can show, with little left to imagination. The woman invites looking at her body, and exposes her body for the purpose sexual attention. If young women and girls only knew what goes on in the mind of young boy's and men of all ages, she just might reconsider who she shows off her body off to ! If Christian girls ,and women of all ages were modest in all areas of their dressing, they would soon find out men of a higher christian quality would be asking for a date. What a woman advertize with, attracks those men who have the same interest, in the woman's body.
Here is what I have told my children and grandchildren, both girls and boys. You don't go to Goodwill looking for a Mink coat. You look for christian's where they gather.....at church and christian gatherings. People who go looking for a good man or woman don't find Christ like people at bars, and other places the world calls fun.
Its time to remind christians drinking is best left along, smoking damages your body, most movies rated pg 13 have swaring against God, and Jesus and vulgar language, sex before marriage is wrong. The things said in the 1950's are still true today ! The only difference is preacher's today don't want topreach about it.
Here is what I have told my children and grandchildren, both girls and boys. You don't go to Goodwill looking for a Mink coat. You look for christian's where they gather.....at church and christian gatherings. People who go looking for a good man or woman don't find Christ like people at bars, and other places the world calls fun.
Its time to remind christians drinking is best left along, smoking damages your body, most movies rated pg 13 have swaring against God, and Jesus and vulgar language, sex before marriage is wrong. The things said in the 1950's are still true today ! The only difference is preacher's today don't want topreach about it.
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If you want to hear vulgar language, all you have to do is go to school. The movies are actually less vulgar than language you will hear everyday in high school and college!
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Oh yes, I would have the right if it were my son being subjected to this, because it would be my pool, just as it was this woman's property and pool!
Having little girls prance around showing their stuff in close proximity to these young boys is nasty. We have to protect not only our daughters, but our sons! We must teach our girls about modesty.
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