I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.
Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?
Im behind you on this of course I just gave up on the inconsistencys and thru all of them out the door now I can center all my attention on God. I even got rid of my suits. Years ago I grew a beard when I went to a district function one of the other ministers came up to me and ask what that was on my face. I look him in the eye and said I had been praying and ask God what these black things were that grew out my face every day. And while I was at it I ask why I had to get up every morn. and put some store bought stuff on my face and then take a scraper to my face so I decided to stop torturing myself and a beard is what I got. Needless to say he did not laugh I still grow abeard or goatee every year am I going to hell?
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is it okay if we own a really sloooooooow horse??????
What about miniature horses? Small sin?
(sounds like your 'kid' brain and my 'kid' brain would have had some interesting discussions. my brain was always pondering these inconsistencies, too)
roflmbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"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"
I was raised in a very conservative UPC church and that was some of the lack of consistency and logic in standards I noticed as a child.
Here's some more food for thought. If we can't dye our hair because it is "changing" something natural God gave us then why are we allowed to wear deoderant to change the smell God gave us? Are we questioning God?
I remember that all of the board games in the student lounge at Bible school had the dice removed and everyone had to use a spinner.
Also, Druids are said to have used human knuckles as dice. You don't want to be like the Druids, do you? Next, you be letting your kids go out on Halloween to collect candy and worshiping Satan. What's next, Christmas trees? (Jeremiah 10:1-5).
We were Pentecostal and were always allowed to play dice games. Yahtzee was my favorite! But our Baptist friends in Wyoming couldn't use dice; they had to get spinners for their games. I never understood the difference.
We were Pentecostal and were always allowed to play dice games. Yahtzee was my favorite! But our Baptist friends in Wyoming couldn't use dice; they had to get spinners for their games. I never understood the difference.
My Orthodox Jewish friends can only use dreidels... jk
Where are the photos of Ethel Goss with short hair and pearls (that we've heard about). Anyone have a copy of the photo? Was it in her book Winds of God?
I had always heard that the reason for the difference in the hair issue vs something like deoderant, was that anything to do with w woman's hair was messing with her "glory". Don't know if underarm deoderant would be messing with her hair/glory, unless she was from Europe!
I do agree that there was and is a lot of inconsistencies in the conservative ranks of Pentecost.
One I personally always laughed at was the white shirt vs "colored" shirt on men issue! The cons would say "No colored shirts"! The question begged to be asked, "When did white quit being a color?" That is just my pet peeve!
White, nor black, is a color. They are the result of the absence of color. LOL!
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Where are the photos of Ethel Goss with short hair and pearls (that we've heard about). Anyone have a copy of the photo? Was it in her book Winds of God?
my brain was always pondering these inconsistencies, too)
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