What's Wrong With Facial Hair

[Just a Shepherd]

Originally Posted by Sheltiedad

Richard, can you summarize your stance in a couple of sentences as to why you believe that beards are wrong... I must be dense because I haven't actually gotten your point in all the stuff you have posted.

You haven't gotten it because he is to busy falling all over himself to appear more intelligent than you. By using his "scholarly" language he attempts to slide his convoluted logic by your reasoning process.

If he were are trinitarian, he would be saying the trinity is a mystery and you just have to have faith to believe what he is saying. Unfortunately for him it was the UPC that taught me not to believe everything, but to "prove all things."

Facial hair isn't addressed in the Articles of Faith, the affirmation statement, or the bylaws. There is absolutely NO prohibition in the UPC against facial hair. If your bible doctrine is so strong Richard why hasn't our organization come out with an official stand against it? It's because the no facial hair people don't even have the courage to try to get it added as an "official" position, because they know a real debate on the issue would blow over their house of cards.

I have much more respect for the pastor who says "shaving is not a biblical commandment, but nevertheless to maintain decorum, I request that the men present themselves clean shaven," than for those who make the outlandish, unverifiable claims that being shaved is part of the New Covenant.