What Must I Do To Be Saved?
 

For fun let's list ALL of the requirements (extra-biblical) that we must do to go heaven:

Don't go to movies,
Don't cut your hair
Don't wear make up
Don't wear jewelry
Don't wear pants (women only)
Don't wear shorts
Don't have a beard, mustache, sideburns, goatee, soul patch
Don't own a tv
Don't watch a tv
Don't watch DVDs or videos or 16 mm filmstrips
Don't listen to wurrly music
Don't go to amusement parks
Don't go to baseball games
Don't go to football games
Don't go to hockey games
Don't go to basketball games
Don't play Little League anything
Don't participate in school sports
Don't participate in any school extra curricular activities
Don't wear wedding rangs
Don't wear short sleeves
Don't wear colored chapstick

Just to name a few...

Anyone else want to add to the list?

This ones for Timmy:heeheehee

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This isn't fun.

Be saved by repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost. Be holy by obeying the Ten Commandments.

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Don't miss church. Ever!

DO pay your tithes (based on 10% of your gross paycheck).

DO pay offerings (which was taught to be 5% of your gross). Anything above THAT is true giving.

DO "obey them that have the rule (or ruler?) over you" in ALL things.

Don't go on a date unchaperoned.

Don't kiss your wife until she IS your wife.

Don't even think of asking her to be your wife until you get your pastors permission.

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Some people took it so far as to not frequent any restaurants that serve beer.

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Yuck!!! That would limit your choices pretty much to only fast food restaurants:groan.

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.....and buffets. Why do you think they are so popular with church folk? OK, the real reason they are popular is because the never ending smorgasbord of blandness they offer but still, I can't recall any that serve alcohol other than perhaps a few oriental ones I've been to.

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All of the above plus.

No open toe shoes.
No clear fingernail polish.
Nothing in the hair that is not the same color as the hair.
Hair up for all married women except at home and if there are no non-family males in the house.
Long sleeves only for men.
Any male on platform or picking up offering must wear a suit.
Women must have ankle length skirts on platform.
No swimming with anyone but family
No waterparks/beaches but the lake is OK... (pastor is a freshwater fisherman) ;)
No hugging non family members of the opposite sex. Every time we visit extended Bapist family this gets me in trouble- I stick my hand out from habbit... They beleive Christians hug everybody.

Must have pastors permission to accept a job offer out of town, move to anywhere to far to drive to his church, go on vacation, buy a house, new car or other large purchases.

Of course to not seek permission is disobedience, which is the same sin as witchcraft, which is how you will be lost, you witch you.

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no beach
no pool
no mixed bathing

no visiting other churches of same persuasion (other oneness churches) without letting the Pastor know

no dating unless in a group (probably a good rule for teenagers actually)

no riding in the car with anyone from the opposite sex that you are not a relative of (probably not a bad idea)

can not touch opposite sex at all, unless married, can only shake their hands

must wear pantyhose (females)

must address anyone in a leadership position by last name, IE, Bro Smith, Sister Smith, ect.

women stay in kitchen and talk, wait on men who are in living room

going to the doctor is seen as a lack of faith, though not prohibited,
women encouraged to have babies at home

must win one soul a year or your salvation is in jeopardy

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Don't celebrate Christmas with a tree in the house.

Don't use anyone's name without using "Brother" or "Sister".

Don't describe getting together with friends as "getting together". You MUST call it "fellow shipping".

Don't truly celebrate someone getting saved until they complete all three steps AND all of the things on the above lists.

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DO ask WWPD ("What would pastor do?") when forced to make a decision and he is not available to ask.

Another married one:
When planning your wedding DO invite every one in the church. Don't worry about cost per person because the reception will be a pot luck held in the church basement.

Do go to Branson, MO for your honeymoon but Don't see any shows.

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must not use the word Easter, must say Resurection Sunday

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....and Don't use the word Halloween, but Do use "Fall Harvest".

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- Don't wear red (symbolic of harlots)
- No breast enhancements (I do agree with that one - although this one really seems to be no longer a no-no in the UPC circles... )
- No tattoos (not a bad one)
- married women can't wear hair down or girls over 13 - as in Jezebel and harlots doing so
- must be present at all church functions, fundraisers and activities or ELSE!


I know there's more....

Oh, ... one preacher I knew taught against breastfeeding, said it was unnatural, and all women should bottle feed their babies??? I never ever understood that one at all!

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Be perfect.
Hate your parents.
Don't eat meat offered to idols.
Do good works.

Oh, sorry, you said extra-biblical! :lol

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That's a strange one -I usually heard the opposite (when I was paying attention that is). It also makes me think of the Cosby line "Me and my wife were intellectuals. We went to class to learn how to have natural child birth."

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Hate your parents?

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No Lavender shirts or ties, Oh in one district the girls at youth camp can't sleep in sweat pants. Not kidding.

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I'm surprised their allowed to shower naked.

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I once heard the former of the Kansas district taught against white underwear on the black women and vice versa on the whites. Correct me if I am wrong on that cause it is hear-say.

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That bug of yours is about the most annoying thing I have ever seen on my screen. LOL

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That a good one. I have heard Christmas referred to as "that day".

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You crack me up LOL!!

Just thought of another one - no shaving of the legs, arms, or any part of the body for a woman.... because women aren't supposed to cut their hair, this applied to all hair...

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bitter much?

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If you posed this question to me, the answer is no, a close family member had to live under this rule. Such nonsense!

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As a former La Leche League leader who is currently feeding my son in such an unnatural fashion, I'm going to have to pretend I didn't read that.

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Yeah, and wife, children, brothers, sisters, and one's own life. Hyperbole meaning "love less than you love me (Jesus)", they say. ;)

Luke 14:26

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Amanah, those hose must have a seam down the back. (Do they still make those?) I guess when they quit making seam hose God will change His doctrine on this, at that time!

Been Thinkin

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Do have very few children - More money for the "work of God" that way!

Children really are not a "Blessing of the LORD" that's an old wives fable!

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No wedding bands,no cuff links,no tie tacs or tie clasps,or tie chains,no facial hair,no going to football games,no golf,no colored dress shirts,no metal band or high dollar watches like Seiko,Or even a top of the line Timex with a metal band.

No Converse All Stars ,no goatees,no Hill Songs praise and worship music not even Phillips,Craig And Dean.

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Yikes. I'm curious how these congregations are doing?

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Wow! I REALLY was raised in a liberal UPC. We went to the rodeo, fair, circus, bowling, ice shows, etc. etc. We could wear pants if we wanted to and most of the women cut their hair. This was in the 60's and 70's! Nearly every woman wore jewelry of some sort--pins, necklaces, etc.

Then I went to Bible college in the DEEP south, and I entered the Valley of Confusion.

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Really? I always heard the exact opposite. "Just imagine how big the church would be if we all had large families!" was the mantra.

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Not any more! Take it from me - more than three is a major anomaly.

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Where I work we have a medi-spa... hard to believe how many women who will not wear cover girl foundation will get botox, lip injections, laser peels, etc.

I am also amazed that probably 10% of the adults have had lap-band or gastric bypass, it is hugely popular.

I'd never heard the 'no breast-feeding'. Woza, that's nuts!

I did think of one more... Our old church did not have drums, they were not allowed. And any music without a distinct southern gospel twang was not godly.

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You do realize Sherri, that us real Apostolics in Illinois, had a feild day talking about how carnal your church was. :happydance

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What is a soul patch?

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I had a pastor who thought it to be "sacrilege" if the kids went to the skating rink to skate to christian music. He expressively forbade it.

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I am happy I was raised in a holiness church in my youth I recieved a love for holiness and separation it has not been a burden to me. I am happy being Apostolic.

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Maybe it's that dove-shaped tuft of hair on my back???? :nod