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Direct Answer Bercot’s argument assumes Scripture often uses physical realities (like clothing color) as symbols of spiritual truth (purity/righteousness), and he challenges modern Christians not to mock lifestyle applications simply because they feel unusual today.

Support from Transcript:

• He says white in Scripture is “a symbol of purity or righteousness,” citing Ecclesiastes 9:7–8: “Let your garments always be white.”
• Isaiah 1:18 links cleansing from sin to being “white as snow… as wool.”
• In the New Testament and Revelation, he lists repeated images of the righteous in “white garments,” including Revelation 3:5 and the elders, martyrs, and great crowd.
• He concludes it is “not absurd” for early Christians to suggest white clothing, even though “the early church never made it a law.”
• He connects undyed fabric to accepting “the way that God made it,” comparing it to not dyeing hair: “We kingdom Christians don’t dye our hair… why not accept God’s fabrics?”
• He stresses a boundary: if something “is not a law in the New Testament,” we “shouldn’t make it a law” just because some early Christians taught it.