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Re: A Voice From the Past - E. L. Holley
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Originally Posted by theoldpaths
Thank you for enlightening me - first time I heard of it and I believe you.
My church would be considered ultra-con by some, but since I was baptized in 10/88 and got the Holy Ghost in 05/89, I have not heard in my church of not being able to play a board game that uses dice.
My own personal opinion is that Proverbs mentions the lot causing contentions to cease. Now if dice was a weakness to one of my brothers who used to be addicted to playing craps and/or gambling, then I should not lay a stumblingblock before him - the bible is quite clear on that one.
I believe it is safer to obey those that have the rule over you than to knowingly disobey.
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I am sure now that only the most conservative of the conservative churches actually ban dice. My pastor was from an ultra conservative background and had actually mellowed somewhat by the time I can remember. No Christmas trees or comic books though!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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