The point about the OT is that the laws were abolished and fulfilled in Christ.

We cannot pick and choose what we want to follow today and what we don’t because of culture. If we can tear apart these verses by Paul, when what verse can’t we tear apart? Because the culture expects women to dress in such a way to entice lust, but the Bible says we should not, do we reject the Bible for being culturally irrelevant? But, forcing/luring a man into lust isn’t one of the 10 Commandments (just as women in leadership over men is not), so where is the line? (Many people draw lines at the 10 commandments, hence the reference)

Homosexuality, swearing, pornography, drinking, illegal drug use, immodest clothing, abortion… these are just a small handful of the other issues that are currently being scrutinized as being “culturally relevant”, and more and more nominal Christians are rejecting what the Bible has to say, and are conforming to what is “culturally relevant”.

Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1 John 5:5
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ

We are to conform to Christ and His Word. Whatever part of this world that goes against Christ, we do not conform to, no matter who threatens us with the label of being “culturally irrelevant”. We do what we can to reach the lost and edify the body, but we do not flow with the culture when it goes against God’s expressed will in the Bible.

In Rome, it was culturally relevant to go to the pagan temples and to have sex with the temple prostitutes, and the church accepted it, but Paul rebuked it. The culture got together and got drunk, so the church started doing that for the Lord’s Supper, and Paul rebuked them. The Greek culture often had women with authority over men, so the church started doing it, too, and Paul rebuked them. Where do we draw the line about what we do and don’t do today to flow with the culture..? When doing so goes against God’s expressed will.

I am sort of onboard with cultural relevance being a valid form of Biblical criticism, but I’m still concerned about how we draw the line. I can see cultural relevance being justified a bit too extensively.

The jewelry thing is a good example. My wife wears jewelry. I’m not offering a solution, just a caution I guess.