30 Reasons To Wear A Beard! - Page 4

Antipas · #31 11-25-2013, 02:34 PM

Let's step back and think about this. Why would God made growing a beard a sin when he designed our bodies and the propensity to grow a beard in the first place? Could God outlaw underarm hair? Leg hair?

The point is that the silliness of this entire question begs for one to question the very idea behind such a God who would major in such minors.

Antipas · #32 11-25-2013, 02:36 PM

Every religion has its "traditions" and "mythologies" that are man made and designed to control. God is a spirit. God is love. Anything that brings an unbalanced focus on the flesh over the spirit and causes division, divisiveness, pride, and condemnation is not of God.

Michael The Disciple · #33 11-25-2013, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Antipas

Every religion has its "traditions" and "mythologies" that are man made and designed to control. God is a spirit. God is love. Anything that brings an unbalanced focus on the flesh over the spirit and causes division, divisiveness, pride, and condemnation is not of God.

The God of our Bible likes and dislikes certain things because he is a living, personal being unlike the new age dogma of such as Matthew Fox.

It just so happens that in this matter Apostolics are on the wrong side.

Michael The Disciple · #34 11-25-2013, 03:15 PM

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That's because by and large legalism has stunted the growth of Apostolic Pentecost. We're weighted down with too many man made rules and dogmas. And God will visit those who have done this. I shudder to think how God will deal with almost an entire generation when they stand before Him.

FlamingZword · #35 11-25-2013, 06:34 PM

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It saddens me. Around 40,000 people die every day from hunger. Yet Pentecostals typically spend more time arguing over facial hair than feeding the hungry.

Some idiot in the Pentecostal movement started the no facial hair rule without any scriptural studying, and now it is so ingrained than no one has the sense to stop the nonsense.

Michael The Disciple · #36 11-25-2013, 10:42 PM

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Some idiot in the Pentecostal movement started the no facial hair rule without any scriptural studying, and now it is so ingrained than no one has the sense to stop the nonsense.

There you go. And now they don't have the humility to admit they were wrong.

n david · #37 11-26-2013, 07:03 AM

The no facial hair rule has no scriptural backing. Anytime I've asked a UPC minister, it's the same answer -- hippies and the 60s.

Antipas · #38 11-26-2013, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

The God of our Bible likes and dislikes certain things because he is a living, personal being unlike the new age dogma of such as Matthew Fox.

It just so happens that in this matter Apostolics are on the wrong side.

Why would God dislike something? Didn't he create everything?

FlamingZword · #39 11-26-2013, 10:28 AM

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The no facial hair rule has no scriptural backing. Anytime I've asked a UPC minister, it's the same answer -- hippies and the 60s.

the hippies are basically gone and we are not longer in the 60s.

and the curious thing is that some of the earliest Pentecostal ministers had beards, there are pictures of them, and back then there was not Photoshop to say those are faked pictures.