| Strict Baptist |
03-26-2018 08:54 PM |
Re: Uncut Hair
In amending my bye, I think what is interesting about this discussion is that early continuationists most definitely did have standards about hair length. One of the complaints against AS McPherson was her bobbing her hair after her infamous adultery with a former employee Ken Orminston. Her big 300-strong quire ultimately resigned ab ovo for what they saw in McPherson as capitulation to worldilness and specifically unbiblical per Dr DW Cloud's The Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements: The History & The Error, page 76 of the 2014 edition. I cannot speak to what period Oneness Pentecostals believed. Nonetheless, short hair on a woman was seen shameful per Saul's legislation a man ought not to have long hair. I see no reason a woman sins by cutting her hair if her hair still maintains the modesty required of a Christian. I see short-haired strumpets almost dialy, some even shaved nearly bald, in this university city, finding it a revolting practice in this rakehelly last season. What was once rejected is highly fashionable (Isa. 1, 5; Luke 16.16-20). It is totally unattractive.
Some early pioneer standards were rather nomist, such as abstaining from pork mandated by JA Dowie and AJ Tomlinson, which in the latter case wws thought to be the dining of the unsaved.
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