[hometown guy]

Originally Posted by Costeon

Indeed. Also, there has been a general undermining of authority in our culture.



I remember when I got in church and started learning about the holiness standards. The anti-beard stance struck me as odd since, well, Jesus had one, but I was deeply puzzled when someone tried to explain starting with, "Well, the hippies . . . " I was 18 and had no memory of the hippies, and asked, "But wasn't that like 20 or 25 years ago??" Seemed like ancient history then. :-)

Many of the standards when I first heard them taught seemed to not have the strongest scriptural foundation. But I was so happy with my experience and respected the people I was going to church with because they were so committed, especially compared to the other Christians I knew, I figured there had to be something to the standards and so conformed.

Sounds pretty interesting that first coming to church you had so much knowledge that what was being taught had no scriptural foundation.