Dave Bernard addresses beards

[mfblume]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Elder Blume some of us are rooted in the past and wish we could have stayed there so we are taking it with us and make no apologies for it.

Whatever floats your boat. I am just saying that there comes a time when a time-limited issue that no longer applies to today shoudl be dropped. After all, men stopped wearing robes a long time ago.

Archaic it might be I will not argue but there am I ole archaic me. And I am happily archaic. I have not been impressed with very many so-called progressives in the last 40 years.

The same could be said by a robe-wearing monk.

Their path is not desirable to me. We speak a different language only a few words are the same. Dialouge is difficult at best. You know when the temple was built the young men shouted for joy because they had not seen Solomon's temple in it's beauty but the old men wept they remembered.

I cannot see any comparison with a little ruling that is outdated since it revolved around hippies where about one can only be found today wrinkled up and in a corner of a little tavern ever 500 miles apart.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Elder Blume some of us are rooted in the past and wish we could have stayed there so we are taking it with us and make no apologies for it. Archaic it might be I will not argue but there am I ole archaic me. And I am happily archaic. I have not been impressed with very many so-called progressives in the last 40 years. Their path is not desirable to me. We speak a different language only a few words are the same. Dialouge is difficult at best. You know when the temple was built the young men shouted for joy because they had not seen Solomon's temple in it's beauty but the old men wept they remembered.

There's an ancient tradition that I cling to, too! It is this:

Things Change

From the beginning of time, fashions have been changing, architecture, language and idiom, customs, technologies, etc. Change can be a good thing. Some changes are worth resisting, of course, but some just aren't worth fussing about.

[Felicity]

Change is of the devil!!

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Felicity

Change is of the devil!!

The band and I found this position was right in all except electricity which is required to run the instruments.

Graber

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by BrotherEastman

As long as he isn't making it a heaven or hell issue, which no one here is.

Well, I *STILL* don't understand the statement, "Not from here" that he keeps making when asked if a man with a beard will go to heaven.

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

No I would NOT have the power to stop them from attending but they would NEVER be accepted as a member. I would treat them as a visitor until they died or left. They would not have any priviledge as a member.The congregation would know they are not a member and they would know they are not a member. Anyone can sit in the building but not everyone can be a member.

I wonder if they would be a member of The Body.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Subdued

Well, I *STILL* don't understand the statement, "Not from here" that he keeps making when asked if a man with a beard will go to heaven.

He believes a man with a beard can go to heaven, but "not from here." Not from the church that he pastors.

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by Michlow

Did I miss the part in the conversation where you used Biblical evidence to back up your stance?

Mich, didn't you read where he thinks Jesus' 1-2 day old stubble (not his beard) may have been plucked out with tweezers?

Originally Posted by Subdued

I wonder if they would be a member of The Body.

Not of his little piece of the body, no.

[Subdued]

Originally Posted by Emma Bontrager

I still think men without beards look like women. It is so hard to tell the difference when there is not a clear line of demarcation.

God-given distinction between the sexes is being rejected by a person who believes in gender distinction. Odd.