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William Branham referred to Deuteronomy 22:5 as providing the scriptural basis for women not wearing pants: | |||
:''The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.<ref>The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Deut 22:5.</ref> | |||
=What does the New Testament say?= | |||
The New Testament repeatedly warns against trying to import Old Testament laws into the Christian church: | |||
:''Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 3:2.</ref> | |||
:''For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, n“Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 3:10.</ref> | |||
:''...but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: t“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ga 5:13–15.</ref> | |||
:''For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down tin his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eph 2:14–16.</ref> | |||
The apostles did not require gentiles to follow the law. | |||
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