She has not a clue what she has done. and has done it for the wrong reasons.

I think the lessons we as Christians can learn from this are many and invaluable.  A. Muslims are humans, too.  B.  Everybody is searching for meaning C. They are going to find that somewhere – why aren’t WE the ones living differently, showing them a more better way??  And that is just scratching the surface…

Being a Biker’s wife:  IMHO …. it’s not about the clothing.  It’s about the REASON behind the clothing!  Some dress for attention.  Some dress to not get attention.  Some dress for the “shock factor”.  All in all, I believe it is the persons individual CHOICE; but I do believe there are some women out there that do need to cover up a bit more!  I personally do not enjoy seeing as much cleavage or butt cracks, as you see these days!!  But again, I have to ask myself WHY the person is dressing the way they are…and then go from there.

I keep seeing you posting this and apparently its caused quite a stir!!  Haha!!  But honestly, my internet at home is running agonizingly slow today.  It’s in and out and unreliable, and it’s being stupid.  LOL!!  It’s the weather.  And being sick as a dog, i don’t really feel like constantly fighting it.  But i’ll try to watch it at some point.

@muhminbillah - I accept. same here. may God bless you.

@Kristenmomof3 - I think that a woman should dress appropriately and modestly.  I watch what other men look at and they often look at the bodies of other women.  There exists only one lady on the news who dresses appropriately that I can not watch anymore because she would bother me and I don’t want to walk to the edge to find out.  Usually I would see youthful women and men have to train themselves to look at a woman from the neck up but men should train themselves to admire someone as a beautiful creation rather than admire her as an object of lust or anything else unless she is his wife.  My stepsister was under conviction that she could only wear a once piece bathing suit and couldn’t wear a two piece.  I’m not saying the woman in the video didn’t have the right ideals in terms of clothing and I’m happy for her covering up and being decent.

I don’t understand the head covering concept.  I don’t think I ever will.  There is so much debate and because of that I will regard it as a secondary issue in relation to salvation.  Salvation and the essentials of the faith I regard as primary issues and everything else not related to salvation is a secondary issue that I believe we can disagree on as believers.  I’m not saying that it isn’t important.  I will say that I never remember lusting at a woman because her hair was uncovered.  And I’ve seen women of another faith clothed head to toe in summer clothing that was close to the skin and pretty revealing which doesn’t make a lot sense in some aspects in my mind.

The problem of seperatism manifests itself in different ways in the church.  Jonah was told by God to go to Ninevah and there are people in the church who refuse to witness to other people because the other person’s sinful lifestyle bothers them so they won’t witness.  I sometimes regard it as an excuse because what they say is that if they were to go witness to someone bad then it would ruin their witness.

My stepsister was fired from a job for witnessing to her bosses.  She worked for them for a while until she gathered the courage to witness to them and the next day she was fired.

My family blames me for their sin and not being able to take advantage of me and others in my extended family because I am a Christian.  When you lose your family over what other people regard as “cheap grace” (whatever that is) then they don’t understand what other people go through.  The nice people who I can get along with look at my Biblical basis of faith and say that I’m not normal.  One of my baby christian friends got offended that I would ask for a Christian CD for my birthday and when I opened it up they start asking those questions that I’m (expected) supposed to feel ashamed of my faith.

I constantly get asked these questions like “What right do you have in telling other people what to do?”  If what we believed didn’t cost us anything and if we’re considered dead by our works then why does the world see us as radical or different when those with rules or laws see us as not obeying?

The problem of the church is that people are rejecting us so they turn to liberalism or they become seeker sensitive.  A section of the church is going emergent and I was reading a book on Fundamentalism and Liberalism and I see the emergent church as a child of liberalism.  Contrary to what liberalism and some in the emergent church believe, some want discipline.  Other people believe that we’re being rejected because of our stance.

The problem with me and other fundamentalists is that we can’t give the gospel to other people if we don’t like them and when we approach people with rules then we’re accused of not loving them or that we hate them.

Dr. Walter Martin was being quoted by his daughter in “The Kingdom of the Occult” and he was on an airplane talking to a doctor.  He was quoted as saying that sin has effected the human race and there is no cure.  I see clothing as helpful but the problem is we still sin.

I look at the Amish, the Mennonite, the Salvation Army and the Brethren as groups which use headcoverings.  That is fine.  They are free to do what they want and they have contributed to evangelism.

The problem is when I take a secondary issue as primary importance then I have divided myself or cut myself off from other people that I wish to talk to.  I started my own message forum on the web and I told two different pastors and one came because I invited him but the statement of faith divided me from them even though it wasn’t intentional.  And other Christians reject me because they see me as being my own arbiter of truth.  When I wanted to start a Bible study, I went to a pastor.  He said I should start with a statement of faith because it keeps wolves from penetrating and it makes the Bible study much stronger because it is no longer mine but it is my church’s as well.  I showed other Christians my forum and they don’t think many people will join.  Fences keep wolves out just like fences keep people out.  Rules keep sin out but rules also keeps sinners out because we say keep the sin out and they’re leaving because they do the same sins.  We won’t identify with sin (and painfully) when we don’t love our enemies we aren’t identifying with sinners.