Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Amy Grant Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 03:20:54 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 27 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article EFL0@ns.cc.lehigh.edu (Ed Lamb) writes: Jesus >provided wine to parties, David danced naked, and we must "be in the >world, but not of it." Amy Grant, although I don't agree totally with >what she is doing, is witnessing to the secular music world the best >way she knows how. She is our sister, and needs our support. "Let him >who is without sin cast the first stone." I don't want to imply anthing false about you here, but are you insinuating that Jesus was not without sin for turning water into wine, or were you trying to compare this miracle to Amy Grant's music. It was my understanding that David was wearing his underwear while dancing (a linnen ephod that would probably cover as much as his royal robes.) I thought that Micah despised him because she thought his actions were inappropriate for a king, not because they were immoral. I read in a book about old Semetic coustoms that a person could be called "naked" if he was not wearing his mantle, but was wearing his ephod. The author felt that Peter might have been wearing an ephod when he jumped in the water to swim out to meet the ressurected Lord (St. John.) If David was wearing an ephod, I think it would have covered him well. According to this book, the undergarmets of the rich were longer and even had sleaves. Link Hudson student at UGA