No they are not. However as representatives of our Lord, we should make sure that if we wear a beard it is well kept and professional. I tried growing a beard, but because I could not make it look proper, I decided that I was better off without it. I sometimes wear a mustache.
Well that was a levitical law for the priests, and we do not follow those laws.
Huh? Lev 19 is addressed to "all the congregation of the children of Israel". But that sill isn't you, though, I agree. So it should be fine to trim your beard or prostitute your daughter. I guess.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I can't...watch the whole thing. Sorry. Too singsongy. My eyes are practically crossing. Or, maybe my ears are crossing.
Scripturally, though, I think the wearing of beards has far more support than being clean shaven. (However, I certainly don't think that a "professional" look has any correlation to godliness.--FlamingZ) By contrast, I don't think there's enough scriptural support to make beard wearing a salvational issue.
I do agree that it's an easy distinction between male and female, and it really does baffle me that most Apostolics have shunned this particular practice, considering the emphasis on gender distinction in other areas.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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