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Re: David Bernard's 2008 "Holiness & Culture" Pape
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Originally Posted by jaamez
More of the same. **yawn**
Looks like he's paying lip service to appearing to be progressive-thinking or open to take another look. But items 1 and 2 are easily cancelled out by item 3. Item 3 is an umbrella clause that assures that nothing will change.
Nothing new here.
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I agree 100%. When I read the statement the first thing that popped into my mind was "smoke & mirrors".
The same logic that allows UPCers to say that standards are not salvational but the reality of their culture is that they are no matter what they say.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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