{"id":6174,"date":"2018-02-27T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2018-02-27T14:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:38:42","slug":"grandpa-say-modesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tampaseo.expert\/focus\/2018\/02\/27\/grandpa-say-modesty\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Grandpa Say about Modesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jim Mettenbrink\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSociety\u2019s\u00a0curse of pornography did not begin with the\u00a0Internet, but is seen on the ancient vases in Greek museums and the ancient sculptures of Corinth and Ephesus. Pornography blatantly adorned the walls of the homes preserved in the 79\u00a0A.D.\u00a0eruption of Mt.\u00a0Vesuvius at Pompeii. Although the dictionary states the root word for pornography is a combination of the French\u00a0porne<\/i>\u00a0and the Greek\u00a0graphos<\/i>, meaning writing about prostitutes, the root\u00a0porne<\/i>\u00a0actually comes from the ancient Greek\u00a0porneia<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>meaning unlawful sex, or any sexual activity outside the marriage of a man and a woman. Literally, pornography is writing about prohibited sex. However, referring to the 7th\u00a0commandment in His sermon on the mountain, Jesus said, “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her\u00a0in\u00a0his heart.” Merely looking at a woman who is not your wife with unlawful sexual desires is a mental sin\u2013\u2013adultery. “Looking” is the key.\u00a0<\/span>
\nA person can look at a modestly dressed woman with admiration of her beauty and character without causing sexual desires. On the other hand, when a woman dresses in such a fashion as to cause lust, she sins for at least two reasons. She has let her Christian light go out, and, she causes men to “look,” leading to lust, even when they had\u00a0no desire to do so, thus she is a cause\u00a0for\u00a0their sin.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn the same sermon, Jesus declared, “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness” (Matthew 6:22-23). The eye fills the mind of each of us. It is indeed the door to our hearts. Everything about you the person comes from the depths of your spirit\u2013\u2013”Keep your heart with all diligence,\u00a0for out of it spring the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23). The greatest challenge of life!\u00a0<\/span>
\nGrandpa says,\u00a0“Guarding your heart begins with guarding your eyes,” what you simply see. Most societies are image conscious, thus advertising begins with the visual. When you first see a person, you observe how he\/she is dressed. T-shirt logos exist because of this fact. The expression “Clothes make the man” acknowledges the impression made through our eyes. Now\u00a0regarding pornography and our eyes. Can a person\u2019s clothes be pornographic? What is pornographic and what is not?\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe word\u00a0modesty<\/i>\u00a0immediately brings to mind, modest clothing. The reason is “…that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing” (1 Timothy 2:9), which obviously applies to how women dress. In summary, the meaning is to dress appropriately, which to the Christian means to dress so as not to cause unlawful sexual desires in others. Do your clothes stir others to have thoughts of fornication?\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt is ironic that folks dress their little girls in short dresses, then as they enter the teens, parents insist that girls dress modestly, that is they cover their bodies, so as not to be sexually provocative. That is where the battle begins\u2013\u2013parent versus\u00a0teen! In a 2007 study, a researcher for the primary religious pollster (George\u00a0Barna) stated, “Our studies show that the faith principles and practices that a child absorbs by age thirteen boldly shapes their\u00a0[sic]\u00a0spirituality for the duration of their\u00a0[sic]\u00a0life.” The\u00a0seeds of dressing immodestly were planted by the parents, then as the child grows, the parents want a caterpillar to butterfly transformation. The divinely inspired wise man wrote,\u00a0“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). That training, teaching,\u00a0and discipline starts at birth and must be consistent.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn 1960, the most beautiful girl in high school, who was smart and an excellent student to whom all were attracted, dared to shorten her dress to reveal just a part of her kneecap. All of us boys could not wait to see her come into the room, to incite our porno thoughts. Shortly thereafter British designer Mary Quant introduced, or seduced, the willing womanhood into the miniskirt… and the boys loved it or lusted it. At that time she\u00a0is credited with having said, the miniskirt declares that a girl is\u00a0willing,\u00a0it\u2019s simply a matter of her choice of whom. Her basic attitude was, “Good taste is death; vulgarity\u00a0is\u00a0life.” In that\u00a0same\u00a0interview, she was asked,\u00a0“What is the point of fashion;\u00a0where is it leading?” She replied, “Sex.” In 1988, she stated her aim was “to dress women so men would feel like tearing the wrapping off.”\u00a0In other\u00a0words\u00a0to incite thoughts of fornication.\u00a0Now the world is drowning in lust. We often see runners in their sports garb. Never mind the short, short sports shorts! This summer, I saw a college student in training, running down the main street in her bikini. Was she a person or an object?\u00a0<\/span>
\nA 2009 Princeton psychology study of the effects of fully clothed women versus those in bikinis on young men revealed that viewing women in bikinis “activated brain regions associated with objects or \u2018things you manipulate with your hands\u2019….” Women were transformed from persons to objects!\u00a0<\/span>
\nWhen a woman asks, “Is this too short?\u00a0or\u00a0too tight? or show too much?, what is she revealing about herself? She wants to present herself as a piece of meat for consumption! The godless attitude of\u00a0humanism (\u201cI am my own god, so do as I desire\u201d) now prompts, “I will dress as I want to;\u00a0your thoughts are your problem!” Remember immodesty changes\u00a0a woman into real-life pornography, an object, not a person. It also reveals a lack of “love your neighbor” sin.\u00a0<\/span>
\nUltimately, your love for your neighbor begins with your concern for his thoughts.\u00a0<\/span>
\nIn this society how can a man guard his thoughts? After all, the pornographic revue begins at the\u00a0Walmart\u00a0parking lot, or the Sunday newspaper ads,\u00a0or …does it begin when your daughter or wife walks out of the house each day? What are they advertising? Where is the\u00a0Christlike\u00a0love of husbands and father that ensure their wives and daughters are not contributing to men\u2019s mental sin? Grandpa says,\u00a0“Girls present yourself as you would to Jesus, not as porn!”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jim Mettenbrink\u00a0 Society\u2019s\u00a0curse of pornography did not begin with the\u00a0Internet, but is seen on the ancient vases in Greek museums and the ancient sculptures of Corinth and Ephesus. Pornography blatantly adorned the walls of the homes preserved in the 79\u00a0A.D.\u00a0eruption of Mt.\u00a0Vesuvius at Pompeii. 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