No Thanks, I Will Stay Old Time Pentecost

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I said nothing about her convictions. She doesn't have standards convictions other than having long hair, which I allow her to have. The issue is that she feels I've left God because I'm not standing for issues she thinks I should. She emulates her mentors (which isn't a bad thing, and completely normal behavior), but because I don't do as they do, she feels I've left God.

Weird, because I've lived this way all her 14 years of life. She's never known me to have uncut hair or never wearing pants or anything else like that. So that makes me wonder, who is talking to her and filling her head with that mess?? It's not her mentors!

Funny though...she didn't feel this way nor act this way until going to youth camp for the first time in her life this year. Someone warned me about being prepared...I should have listened.

I'm all for her having HER OWN convictions. She knows this. I've always told her to live by her convictions and her's alone. That's never changed either.

So the only conviction she has is long hair that you don't agree with? What "other" issues are there that mentors or whoever push on her? It's seems a little confusing to me. Also what is the "you don't do as they do, thus left God" that sounds like standards or doctrinal to me. One always has to be protecting of there children but sometimes God deals with children or young people on there own. Then somtimes other people influence them. If she believes that you truly are not doing something right then she has made a decision on some type of belief. Whether right or wrong she is doing what you have let her do and that is have her own convictions.

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

So the only conviction she has is long hair that you don't agree with? What "other" issues are there that mentors or whoever push on her? It's seems a little confusing to me. Also what is the "you don't do as they do, thus left God" that sounds like standards or doctrinal to me. One always has to be protecting of there children but sometimes God deals with children or young people on there own. Then somtimes other people influence them. If she believes that you truly are not doing something right then she has made a decision on some type of belief. Whether right or wrong she is doing what you have let her do and that is have her own convictions.

*sigh*

I don't think you are reading my posts. I said nothing about not agreeing with her convictions. Her and I have discussed several issues all her life. I know what she believes. I don't have a problem with it, even if I disagree with her reasoning.

If she wants to look like Patti Pentecost, I'm not going to fret or stress over that. It certainly beats her looking Gothic or some such strange creature.

If she wants to read her Bible everywhere she goes, including to school, I'm not going to discourage that. It certainly beats her reading about witchcraft and sexual issues.

If she wants to think that what she looks like and the works she does is what saves her, thus leaving others who don't look like she does and do the works she does to be unsaved, THAT is what I have a problem with. It's unbiblical. The other above issues don't go against Bible.