Should we teach others to rebel against standards?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

I don't have the time or desire to search through your posts, but I do know both you and Aquila have posted more than once that you won't attend a church with a prohibition on beards.

BUZZZZT. (Lie-o-meter)

That's not what was said. What was said is that we believe that churches that prohibit facial hair are teaching for doctrine the commandments of men, and are therefore fallen from pure biblical truth. And we do not desire to attend a church in sin.

An Apostolic church is one which believes and preaches the Apostles doctrine. I thought it was pretty self-explanatory.

That's why you're blind. Did the Apostles prohibit beards? Then if your church does, it isn't expressly following the doctrine of the Apostles now, is it???

To strive to be Apostolic is to strive to be biblical and to practice Christianity as the Apostles did. In this discussion, we're primarily talking about beards. Did the Apostles ever prohibit beards? If not, then such a teaching isn't "Apostolic", it is only a tradition of man being taught as doctrine. And if such a tradition of man is codified and established in a church (made a doctrine), then that church is anchored there... and cannot move forward into the fullness of true and pure Apostolic truth.