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Re: Trying to Rescue Another from HMH Doctrine
The "uncut hair" thing is really a novelty among Oneness Pentecostal people. I had a discussion with a young lady recently (a family member). I pointed out that she was a "sixth generation" Apostolic Pentecostal. That is a great heritage and something that she should rightfully be proud of.
However, she is also the very first generation to have never cut her hair. ... and I don't mean to say that there were "backsliders" and such. Her forebears included at least one GS of a Oneness org and many generations of faithful ministers and saints. It's just that her grandmother (the niece of a GS and a cousin to the guy who penned the AS in 1992) had never even heard of such a teaching until the 1950s - and wasn't directly impacted by the teaching until the 1960s and 1970s.
I have found that to be true among the vast, vast majority of people in the UPC and other Oneness organizations. S.G. Norris appears to have been the one who introduced this teaching to the Oneness camp (going by available publications). Murray Burr used it as a stick to swat those he deemed to be of "lesser holiness" when he spun off into his own little world.
The UPC, under the tutelage of SG Norris and his Bible School, seems to have sort of adopted this in the spirit of "nuh-uh!" and "Me too!" It still took a couple of decades for this to finally take hold. I was in Bible School in the early 1980s and I remember kids coming from districts where "uncut hair" simply wasn't taught at all even at that date.
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