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==Old Testament== | ==Old Testament== | ||
===Jewelry=== | |||
There are many examples of jewelry being acceptable in the Old Testament. For example, Rebekah was given gold and silver jewelry by Abraham's servant: | There are many examples of jewelry being acceptable in the Old Testament. For example, Rebekah was given gold and silver jewelry by Abraham's servant: | ||
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===Makeup=== | ===Makeup=== | ||
While makeup is only mentioned a few times in the Old Testament, it is not condemned: | |||
:2 Kings 9:30 | :2 Kings 9:30 | ||
::''Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Ki 9:30–31.</ref> | ::''Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Ki 9:30–31.</ref> | ||
Jeremiah | :Jeremiah 4:30 | ||
::''What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Je 4:30.</ref> | |||
:Ezekiel 23:40 | |||
::''“They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ezekiel 23:40</ref> | |||
Ezekiel 23:40 | |||
:''“They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ezekiel 23:40</ref> | |||
==The New Testament== | ==The New Testament== | ||
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=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
William Branham taught that wearing makeup was ungodly, to the extent that he said it was perfectly acceptable to approach a woman wearing makeup and tell her, “Hello, Miss Dog Meat!” But he also admitted that he had '''no scripture''' to base his doctrine on! | |||
==Makeup is ungodly== | ==Makeup is ungodly== | ||