Old Time Pentecostal Holiness Standards

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by CC1

What does using dice when playing monopoly or sorry have to do with gambling? What does playing hearts or rummey have to do with gambling? They have as much to do with gambling as owning or riding horses has to do with horse racing. If you are serious about your standards you will want to be consistent.

So I take it that you are just pushing a point, not that you really believe that it is wrong!

Thanks

[CC1]

Originally Posted by TJJJ

So I take it that you are just pushing a point, not that you really believe that it is wrong!

Thanks

I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.

Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by CC1

Owning or riding horses is wrong. If Pentecostals can't use dice in board games or play with playing cards because people gamble with them then they certainly cannot have anything to do with horses as gambling on horse races is big time gambling.

Is it okay if we own a really sloooooooow horse??????

What about miniature horses? Small sin?

Originally Posted by CC1

I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.

Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?

And Hot Sticks, hot rollers. Making straight hair curly.



(sounds like your 'kid' brain and my 'kid' brain would have had some interesting discussions. My brain was always pondering these inconsistencies, too)

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by CC1

I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.

Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?

Hey I spent my teens in a very conservative church as well and could never reconcile all the "reasons" against make-up while seeing these same "reasons" thrown out the window when I saw all the ladies at camp use a whole can of hairspray for a single service.

I believe UPC camps are single handily responsible for the ozone hole above the Arctic circle during the 80's!

[jaxfam6]

Originally Posted by TJJJ

You joking, CC1, or serious?

What does riding horses have to do with gambling? The bay mare I have is now used for a pleasure horse. Riding a horse for pleasure is no different than fishing for pleasure or riding a bike for pleasure.

Now, are you really serious or joking?

Tjjj

PLEASURE??????????

I did not think we were allowed to have any pleasure in life either? I am shocked!!!!!!



=)

[crakjak]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Hey I spent my teens in a very conservative church as well and could never reconcile all the "reasons" against make-up while seeing these same "reasons" thrown out the window when I saw all the ladies at camp use a whole can of hairspray for a single service.

I believe UPC camps are single handily responsible for the ozone hole above the Arctic circle during the 80's!

Hey, in the 70's the guys were using it too!!

[TJJJ]

Originally Posted by CC1

I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.

Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?

I had always heard that the reason for the difference in the hair issue vs something like deoderant, was that anything to do with w woman's hair was messing with her "glory". Don't know if underarm deoderant would be messing with her hair/glory, unless she was from Europe!

I do agree that there was and is a lot of inconsistencies in the conservative ranks of Pentecost.

One I personally always laughed at was the white shirt vs "colored" shirt on men issue! The cons would say "No colored shirts"! The question begged to be asked, "When did white quit being a color?" That is just my pet peeve!

[CC1]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

PLEASURE??????????

I did not think we were allowed to have any pleasure in life either? I am shocked!!!!!!



=)

A Puritan woman mentioned to someone that at her home she ate dinner sitting in her husbands lap. When the shocked person asked why the Puritan stated "Because we only have one chair. Two chairs would be an extravagence!"

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by CC1

A Puritan woman mentioned to someone that at her home she ate dinner sitting in her husbands lap. When the shocked person asked why the Puritan stated "Because we only have one chair. Two charis would be an extravagence!"

I see images of the "Smiling Bob" commercials where he is dressed as Santa and all the office women are waiting in line to sit in his lap.

[jaxfam6]

Originally Posted by CC1

A Puritan woman mentioned to someone that at her home she ate dinner sitting in her husbands lap. When the shocked person asked why the Puritan stated "Because we only have one chair. Two chairs would be an extravagence!"

HMMMMMM wonder how my wife would feel if I got rid of all but one chair?

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I see images of the "Smiling Bob" commercials where he is dressed as Santa and all the office women are waiting in line to sit in his lap.

I know you did not just go there.