Is it Okay for Christian Women to Wear Bikinis?

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As the weather warms up, people shed their winter coats. And shirts, pants, pretty much everything but their underwear.

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Known for women, though, as a bikini. But let's be real, most underwear covers more than most bikinis.

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In 1946, designer Louis Rayard introduced a bathing suit so small it could be pulled through a wedding ring.

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He called it the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll where nuclear bombs were tested because he knew his swimsuit would go off like a bomb.

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It was so skimpy not even runway models would wear it. So, true story, Rayard hired a stripper to show it off.

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No pun intended. It should go without saying, bikinis are immodest. Women are told in 1

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Timothy 2 .9, first, to adorn themselves, but second, in respectable apparel, with modesty and self -control.

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To be modest means to be without vanity, to be decent in character and attire, self -control is among the fruit of the spirit.

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Furthermore, Christian women need to be mindful of their brothers in the Lord and not put a stumbling block before their eyes.

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Now some will say, hey, that's rape culture, you're saying that if a man has impure thoughts about a woman, that's a woman's fault.

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Men are responsible to take every thought captive to obey Christ, 2 Corinthians 10 .5.

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But women need to know that if they, in their immodesty, wound the conscience of their brothers, they too sin against Christ, 1

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Corinthians 8 .12. Above all, we are to glorify God in all that we do, even in what we wear.

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As said in 1 Corinthians 6 .19 -20, do you not know that your body is a temple of the

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Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price, the precious blood of Jesus.

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So glorify God in your body. And as it said in Romans 12 .1, this is your spiritual act of worship, when we understand the text.