The Bible teaches us that external appearances are VERY important to God. We must use extreme caution while grooming ourselves or God might not even acknowledge us! What is a True Christian ® supposed to look like in order for God to be able to spot him? ….

1. What does Jesus say about a woman’s appearance?

A. She is to look beautiful and elegant at all times for she is a vessel of the Lord. B. She is to dress plainly and under no circumstances is she to wear flashy clothes, fancy hairdos or jewelry. C. Her self-worth should be based solely on subjection to her husband and not outward appearance. D. B and C.

2. Does God differentiate between men’s and women’s fashions?

A. No. God is unconcerned with matters as superficial as what people wear. B. Yes. Unisex clothing like pants for women and blouses for men is an abomination unto the Lord. C. No. Both genders must simply wear clothing that covers all unmentionable body parts. D. Yes. Women’s clothing must be elegant and tidy whereas God imposes no restriction on men’s attire.

3. What does Jesus say about men’s hair?

A. Nothing. The New Testament does not address this subject. B. Men who have long hair should be ashamed of themselves. C. Men cannot change the color of their hair. D. B and C.

4. How does Jesus say a woman should wear her hair?

A. Jesus’ teachings, through the apostles, focused on truths about human conduct and emotion, not superficial matters like hairdos. B. She should sport a style that makes her husband and her content. C. She should cut it to keep if from interfering with her facial appearance. D. She should keep it long so it keeps her head covered.

5. What restrictions does God place on the fabric of your clothes?

A. None. God’s laws are concerned with behavior that is destructive to ourselves or others and doesn’t concern matters as trivial as fabric. B. God allows cotton but not wool because sheep are unclean. C. God prohibits clothing made of more than one type of fabric. D. God requires clothing worn to church to be of the highest quality fabric.

6. Which of the following hairstyling practices does God strictly forbid?

A. Shaving the head. B. Trimming a beard. C. Plucking eyebrows. D. All of the above.

7. What is God’s response to women who dress, groom and act elegantly?

A. He rewards them a thousandfold for honoring His name with beauty. B. He promises them riches in Heaven for treating the body He created with flair. C. He provides them with husbands who appreciate and cherish their beauty. D. He smites them, then robs them of their beauty.

8. What fashion statement is God making by having certain people be naturally bald?

A. None. Baldness is a random condition typically caused by the genetics of the human scalp. B. Baldness can be as beautiful as a handsome hairdo. C. Baldness is God’s punishment of those who are evil. D. Beauty is based on the inner soul and not outward appearance.

9. What type of tattoos are preferable to God?

A. None. God forbids tattoos. B. Tattoos that identify the individual or his family/tribe. C. Tattoos that reflect a man’s achievements. D. Any tattoos other than those of gods, for such markings constitute idolatry.

10. Which of the following jewelry is worn for idolatrous purposes?

A. None. What people wear has nothing to do with their faith. B. Earrings. C. Photograph lockets. D. Watches.

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ANSWERS

Answers To The “How God Spots A Christian Quiz”

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1. What does Jesus say about a woman’s appearance?

Correct Answer: D (B and C.) “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array” (1 Timothy 2:9). “Likewise ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands . . . Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart” (1 Peter 3:3).

2. Does God differentiate between men’s and women’s fashions?

Correct Answer: B (Yes. Unisex clothing like pants for women and blouses for men is an abomination unto the Lord). “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” (Deuteronomy 22:5).

3. What does Jesus say about men’s hair?

Correct Answer: D (B and C). “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (1 Corinthians 11:14). “Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black” (Matthew 5:36).

4. How does Jesus say a woman should wear her hair?

Correct Answer: D (She should keep it long so it keeps her head covered.) “But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering” (1 Corinthians 11:15).

5. What restrictions does God place on the fabric of your clothes?

Correct Answer: C (God prohibits clothing made of more than one type of fabric.) “Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee” (Leviticus 19:19).

6. Which of the following hairstyling practices does God strictly forbid?

Correct Answer: D (All of the above.) “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh” (Leviticus 21:5). “Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead” (Deuteronomy 14:1).

7. What is God’s response to women who dress, groom and act elegantly?

Correct Answer: D (He smites them, then robs them of their beauty.) “Moreover, the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon. The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, The rings, and nose jewels, the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails” (Isaiah 3:16-23).

8. What fashion statement is God making by having certain people be naturally bald?

Correct Answer: C (Baldness is God’s punishment of those who are evil.) “And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink, that instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty” (Isaiah 3:24). “Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?” (Jeremiah 47:5).

9. What type of tattoos are preferable to God?

Correct Answer: A (None. God forbids tattoos.) “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:28). “They shall not . . . make any cuttings in their flesh” (Leviticus 21:5).

10. Which of the following jewelry is worn for idolatrous purposes?

Correct Answer: B (Earrings.) “Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments . . . And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem” (Genesis 35:2-4).

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