Dave Bernard addresses beards

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Ronzo

And he's the president of their "graduate" institution.

Good to know...

He's known all along of course that there's no prohibition against men having a beard. For some reason he feels free now to make a public declaration.

Hmmmm..........

[freeatlast]

Originally Posted by Felicity

He's known all along of course that there's no prohibition against men having a beard. For some reason he feels free now to make a public declaration.

Hmmmm..........

I'm not sure if he said it in public addressof the sympossium or in one of them after church coversations.

I think it was in the sympossium, the way I heard it.

I guess it doesn't matter if the he said it or not. Most of us allready know there is NO direction given in the bible for a man to be clean shaven.

Some of us just can't admit it.

[Sam]

Doth not nature itself teach you that a man should have a beard?

Isn't the clean shaven look following after the "world" many years ago?

[SDG]

Originally Posted by Felicity

He's known all along of course that there's no prohibition against men having a beard. For some reason he feels free now to make a public declaration.

Hmmmm..........

Oh ... that's right ... we're talking about the non-bible based and manual-based requirement on men that want to be used by God ...

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by Felicity

He's known all along of course that there's no prohibition against men having a beard. For some reason he feels free now to make a public declaration.

Hmmmm..........

Maybe he wants to have one, huh?



ARPH

[ThePastorsCoach]

Maybe they should now REQUIRE beards and just how to shape and wear them - it could be another major Standard for the men - it could be another control issue for them and if the men do NOT grow them - they could scream at them - Fags, Queers, Sissy's - You are all going to hell if you do not have facial hair. I think the Control Police would LOVE this!

[Old Paths]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

I heard from a reliable source yesterday that Br. Bernard addressed the issue of facial hair on men at a recent symposium.

I don't have a direct quote. Only that he said we (the UPCI) have been all wrong on the issue and it needs to to stop.

In our ranks, isn't this like the pope saying, it's OK now?

You "heard".

"I don't have a direct quote".

"No documentation".


Hmmmm J/W under normal circumstances, would this be considered gossip?

:sshhh

[ChTatum]

C'mon, Rico, don't be skeered.......

I ain't!

[rrford]

For crying out loud. Some of you must have never read his books or looked at his operating policy on his website. The man has never said beards were a sin. And I have known him for 25 years. Not one time in class or through the years did he ever state wearing a beard was a sin.

This is not some new Bernard Revelation.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by rrford

For crying out loud. Some of you must have never read his books or looked at his operating policy on his website. The man has never said beards were a sin. And I have known him for 25 years. Not one time in class or through the years did he ever state wearing a beard was a sin.

This is not some new Bernard Revelation.

*sigh*

So what's the deal then? Why was this brought up?