Question: Why is it that the hard line legalist is always quick to say..."Bless God, I'm not letting down my holiness standards!" Let me ask you, what holiness standards are you talking about? Your standard of the fruits of the spirit? your standard of forgiveness?
Your standards of compassion and pure thoughts?"
No, usually the term Holiness Standards to them means, we men don't have hair on our ears and we women have exposed pimples! But true holiness is more than a mass of split ends with a bow. Holiness is more about what you say, and how you act and think than simply what you wear. In fact, the terms holiness standard and old fashioned holiness are not found in the Bible. These often have become sectarian code phrases for dress codes that have little to do with Bible holiness. These are modern day indulgences--that
people use as a way to procure their salvation and find favor with God and man.
Instead of circumcision, Neo-Pharisees insist on unnecessary dress codes and rules being added to salvation. It's the same old
Acts 15 syndrome.
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