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Originally Posted by Neckstadt
I am a Liberal/Moderate/Con
I am liberal on Dress. I do not care about the Affirmation statement and how to follow dress codes because an organization wants to be defined by them.
I am moderate on the when the Acts 2:38 is applied to salvation.
I am a Con on the idea of the doctrine of the Godhead as defined in our terms as "Oneness".
Now the fun comes in when others define us!
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You've got that right. If you believe the Bible at all, much of our society will lable you "kook fringe extreme conservative." And then to have your own brethren label you "ultra-liberal" because you don't condemn people for showing their elbows in public can lead to perplexity.
These labels can be significant however. I remember a visit from an evangelist from a "conservative" church in CA many years ago. He railed against "liberals" in the UPC and proclaimed the P.S.R. Conference to be the "premier gathering of conservative Apostolics." He then went on to denigrade "another conference" in CA that was host to a bunch of "liberals."
The labels were first used by men who wanted to call themselves "conservatives." In reality the represented a movement of radical change, the very antithesis of real conservatism. Mrs. LPW appears to be admirably tired of this division. But the history behind the causes of the division is important.