We have to Be perfect in order to make heaven

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Originally Posted by NorCal

I agree with everything you stated on the Law. The Law is there to show us sin (as well as conviction by the Holy Ghost about stuff that the Law does not cover).


I do not agree with this. There are Fads and Fashions can be (and most often) sponsored by Spirits that we should never condone. Spirit of Homosexuality, for example. Living in Northern California, you can tell a gay man, not only by their demeanor, but by their Clothing Choice, Hair Style and look of their Facial Hair Trimming. Once again, why would you want to even make people wonder about that with you. Would that not be a weight to your witness?

There has never been a question by my appearance about anything to do with homosexuality. lol No one has ever proposed this in my experience.

Would you not consider that a Pagan association? Hippies have gone as far as to worship "Gia" or "Mother Earth". Is that also Pagan association?

No. We need to realize that it is not what we might suspect people might think but what they ACTUALLY think. Any regard over beards is simply reaching in order to maintain an outdated standard, when even in the 60's a well kept beard was not associated with hippies at all. Picture a professor wearing a well kept beard, and not the straggly mess that hippies wore. No one in the 60's would associate that with the hippies.

That has been my point all along. Holiness is no longer really taught. Just standards. We need to put off every sin and weight so that we may draw closer to God. We loosen your standards, when in all actuality, according to Jesus teachings on the Law, you should every day tighten them as the Holy Ghost pricks your heart.

Standards schmandards. Anyone following the Lord in true sincerity will know what and what not to do without being handed a list of standards.