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MaxInDHouse:
As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring. ‭Genesis 24:30 NIV‬

You can check it in any Bible version of your choice!

Genesis 24:30 KJV
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Even then, what message were you trying to pass?

What message are you trying to pass with this thread?
The Bible revealed that faithful women of ancient times do use jewelries.

annyplenty:
Genesis 24:30 KJV
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

Even then, what message were you trying to pass?

MaxInDHouse:
What message are you trying to pass with this thread?
The Bible revealed that faithful women of ancient times do use jewelries.

You asked me to check any bible version of my choice and the first that I checked which also happens to be the most acceptable version in the world mentioned earring.

Rebekah never knew God when she wore earrings and even if some wore, that was never the will of God for mankind

Are you deciding for God or you want to quote where the highlighted is written in God's word?

Well i've quoted scripture for you that it is not a sin when female worshipers of God puts on jewelries!

Here is God talking to His worshipers:

I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put BRACELET upon thy hands, and a CHAIN on thy neck. And I put a JEWEL on thy forehead, and EARRINGS in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. Ezekiel 16:11-12

So God declared saying these things are not evil because He Himself adorned His female worshipers with these things!🙂

annyplenty:
Rebekah never knew God when she wore earrings and even if some wore, that was never the will of God for mankind.

MaxInDHouse:
Are you deciding for God or you want to quote where the highlighted is written in God's word?

Well i've quoted scripture for you that it is not a sin when female worshipers of God puts on jewelries!

Here is God talking to His worshipers:

I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put BRACELET upon thy hands, and a CHAIN on thy neck. And I put a JEWEL on thy forehead, and EARRINGS in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. Ezekiel 16:11-12

So God declared saying these things are not evil because He Himself adorned His female worshipers with these things!🙂

You inherently made an error by referring to Rebekah wearing nose ring and you boldly asked me to go and check it out in any version but the first version I checked says earrings instead.

But be that as it may, let me inform you that Rebekah was among the idolatrous extended families of Abraham that God called Abraham out of so that He can raise a holy nation through which Jesus can come from.

So that Rebekah wore earrings was never an approval by God. She never knew God. Her wearing earrings was an act of the idolatrous families they came from.

I will talk about the scripture you quoted above, later when I have chance

annyplenty:
You inherently made an error by referring to Rebekah wearing nose ring and you boldly asked me to go and check it out in any version but the first version I checked says earrings instead.

But be that as it may, let me inform you that Rebekah was among the idolatrous extended families of Abraham that God called Abraham out of so that He can raise a holy nation through which Jesus can come from.

So that Rebekah wore earrings was never an approval by God. She never knew God. Her wearing earrings was an act of the idolatrous families they came from.

I will talk about the scripture you quoted above, later when I have chance

My own version said Rebecca was given a nose ring!

MaxInDHouse:
My own version said Rebecca was given a nose ring!

But you boldly said I should check any version like you had done your due diligence.

annyplenty:
But you boldly said I should check any version like you had done your due diligence.

The point is earrings or nose rings require piercing which you are saying it's unscriptural yet there is no verse in the Bible to back it up!😟

MaxInDHouse:
What message are you trying to pass with this thread?
The Bible revealed that faithful women of ancient times do use jewelries.

That anyone mentioned in the Bible did something is not a license for Christian to do it. Many of them were just learning God and never knew the way of God in full.

Solomon married hundreds of wives. Abraham went into the maid of his wife. Rebekah wore earrings and many more: all these examples are not a license to repeat what they did.

What can be used as yardsticks for our behavior as Christians are as follows, and not what a random Bible personality did.

1. What God commanded us in the Bible to do

2. What God rebuked or commended people in the Bible for doing

3. Jesus our role model: what he can do and what he cannot do

4. What ever will bring glory to God

annyplenty:
That anyone mentioned in the Bible did something is not a license for Christian to do it. Many of them were just learning God and never knew the way of God in full.

The Bible calls them examples of faith! Romans 15:4; 1Corinthans 10:11
So if God never condemned their action you can't!

annyplenty:
Solomon married hundreds of wives. Abraham went into the maid of his wife. Rebekah wore earrings and many more: all these examples are not a license to repeat what they did.

Solomon did what is wrong according to God's word he shouldn't have married pagans neither increase women for himself! Deuteronomy 7:3
That's why he failed.

annyplenty:
What can be used as yardsticks for our behavior as Christians are as follows, and not what a random Bible personality did.

1. What God commanded us in the Bible to do

2. What God rebuked or commended people in the Bible for doing

3. Jesus our role model: what he can do and what he cannot do

4. What ever will bring glory to God

Can you back all these your self righteous rules with the Bible by pointing out which one condemns the use of earrings?🙂

MaxInDHouse:
The Bible calls them examples of faith! Romans 15:4; 1Corinthans 10:11
So if God never condemned their action you can't!

Let us look at the two scriptures you quoted for justification that men and women can wear earrings

1.Romans 15:4 KJV
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

This scripture neither bears relevance to the issue of earrings nor to the fact that we can wear earrings because Rebekah that was coming from idolatrous, home wore earrings, and who was not even married to Isaac at that time wore it.

2. The second scripture you quoted as your justification for earrings and example of faith for us to follow is even talking about the people that God destroyed in the wilderness for not obeying Him. Read from verse 5 below

1 Corinthians 10:5-11 KJV
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

[6] Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

[7] Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

[8] Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

[9] Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

[10] Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

[11] Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

MaxInDHouse:
Can you back all these your self righteous rules with the Bible by pointing out which one condemns the use of earrings?🙂

They are not my self righteousness. They are principles founded in the Bible.

God gives us His commandments to obey; or are you saying otherwise?

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith
Hebrews 12:2 KJV
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And lastly, verse 31 of 1 Cor 10, you quoted say

1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

When you puncture your nose and ears and lips and put rings into them, what glory is there for God?

annyplenty:
Let us look at the two scriptures you quoted for justification that men and women can wear earrings
1.Romans 15:4 KJV
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
This scripture neither bears relevance to the issue of earrings nor to the fact that we can wear earrings because Rebekah that was coming from idolatrous, home wore earrings, and who was not even married to Isaac at that time wore it.
2. The second scripture you quoted as your justification for earrings and example of faith for us to follow is even talking about the people that God destroyed in the wilderness for not obeying Him. Read from verse 5 below

1 Corinthians 10:5-11 KJV
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

[6] Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

[7] Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

[8] Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

[9] Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

[10] Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

[11] Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.



They are not my self righteousness. They are principles founded in the Bible.

God gives us His commandments to obey; or are you saying otherwise?

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith
Hebrews 12:2 KJV
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And lastly, verse 31 of 1 Cor 10, you quoted say

1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

When you puncture your nose and ears and lips and put rings into them, what glory is there for God?

Is God's glory in the appearance of His faithful worshipers like Rebecca?🙂