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Wearing Pants To Church

Before the Romans, all of Brittiania was inhabited by the Celts. Copied from Wikipedia The history of the kilt stretches back to at least late 16th century Scotland. However, the nationalism of that tradition is relatively recent. It was only with the Romantic Revival of the early 19th century that the highland kilt was adopted by Lowlanders and the Scottish Diaspora as a symbol of national identity. People from other countries with Celtic connections, some Irish, Cornish, Welsh and Manx, have also adopted tartan kilts in recent times, although to a lesser degree. According to the OED, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning "to gird up, to tuck up round the body", itself of Scandinavian origin.

Wearing Pants To Church

Part 1 The Biblical concept is that we aren't supposed to be cross gendered... Let those things that are gender specific be gender specific... In my opinion, a Breacan an Fhilidh is masculin whereas pleated kilt (Brittish Skirt) is more feminine. However that is coming from a reenacters point of view. It is interesting that the Bride of Christ, is made up of both men and women is referred to in the feminine form... Prior to Queen Elizabeth I, there were no garments known as kilts. They were called either a brat or plaid. They were simply a woolen blanket, that served multiple purposes.

Wearing Pants To Church

Part one I am a medieval reenactor and have been studying Irish/Scot dress for a bout 5 years now. I make most of my own historically correct Gaelic clothing. Just to clear up some misconseption on Scottish dress... Kilts tecnically are not Scottish at all, they are British. Elizabeth I had them designed for her Highland gaurd. The original garment worn by Irish and Scots was the plaid or brat (pronounced play'd and brought in Gaelic). It served as a multi-purpose garment, cloak, coat, blanket... it could a single color or multiple colors not to exceed 7 colors which was only allowed for the Chieftain or Ui. The plaid covered the Leine (lay-nah) or long shirt. (not a poet shirt)

Wearing Pants To Church

Part 2 Plaid is actually the old Gaelic word meaning blanket. A plaid could be gathered around the body and belted in place to keep it closed, the top half of the plaid became like hoodie in bad weather. After the invent of the modern Kilt, (Brittish skirt as we call them in the world of medeival reenactment)(the word kilt, literally means to gather together) the plaid became known as The Great Kilt or also known as the "breacan an fheilidh" or "feile mor". I have just scratched the surface regarding the Scots and their attire. The original Gaelic root word that Scotch came from, literally ment Irish-man or man from Ireland.

Is Mystery Babylon America

Part one To understand how the RCC could be "Mystery Babylon" one has to have a basic understanding of Babylonian and Roman pagan religions. Nimrod, builder of the tower of babel was king, his wife Semiramis, was queen. Semiramis, was the instigator in forming the false religion aimed at supporting their rule. Eternal truths were corrupted by her (rather, quite obviously, by the evil one controlling her) into a mythic cycle wherein the great dragon is depicted as the rightful lord of the universe whose throne has been temporarily usurped by One whom we can recognize as the God of the Bible.

Is Mystery Babylon America

Part two From it's begining, Babylon equated itself to God... With the building of the tower of Babel Nimrod elavated himself to being god on earth. Upon his death, his wife, Semiramis elevated her dead husband to godship. She called this new god Baal, lord of Heaven. Through her union with Baal, she was to produce a child "the son of god" To oppose the accusations of "mere" womanhood laid against her, she had herself deified as the mother of the god Damu (since only a god can beget a god), and installed as "The Queen of Heaven". A shadow and type of the RCC depiction of Mary, the Queen of Heaven and mother of God.

Is This An Unknown Tongue

Yes, it is, and the Apostle Paul further writes to Christians (in this case the Corinthian Christians, but, by inference, to all Christians) "I thank God I speak in tongues more than ye all." And in another place he says of our spiritual walk "be ye imitators of me, as I am of Christ." If we walk as Paul walked, we will covet spiritual gifts because Paul also said he would not have us ignorant of these matters and that we should covet spiritual gifts.

Reading Harry Potter

OI! You people have gone batty, you have. You judge these books in ignorance. Not one of you have read these books, because if you had, you would know that at the heart of these books is the message of loyal friendship and the conquering of GOOD over EVIL! Brighten up people, this is a positive series for kids to be reading. I suppose you lot have something against CS Lewis too, one of the biggest Christian authors of our time.

Are There Two Baptisms
	Yes two baptisms..(John's baptism with water for repentanc,e and Jesus' baptism of the Holy Ghost for power for witnessing) Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.