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Re: Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc.
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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta
I am interested in NT literature. There is no mention of facial hair in the NT. There is no real description of Jesus Christ. It must not be important.
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They plucked Jesus' beard.
Also if you look at historical records of biblical times the men did have facial hair. I am sure it was harder to have a close shave back then since they didn't have nice electric razors or disposable razors.
It is fine to be interested in what the New Testament has to say about facial hair but it would be a mistake not to research and know what the culture of the day as well as the technology of the day dictated.
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"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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