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Originally Posted by The Dean
It appeared to me that the post of Sacerdotal and the analogy of Bro. Tenney were both on target. What appears ridiculous is people who seem to instantly attack everything that remotely appears to value holiness or any outward standards that portray a hunger for holiness. On second thought, it doesn't appear ridiculous: it IS ridiculous.
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What is ridiculous is to equate holiness with outward adornment, holiness is inward. I know folks that know nothing of the type of outward adornment standards as described by TFT's sermon that are some of the holiest folks that I have ever known. When you isolate yourselves from all other Christians, it is easy to imagine that they are not holy, or honest, or pure in their relationship with God. These folks are modest in their lifestyles and apparel, however not to the extremes demanded by OP doctrine. You are missing what these other members of the Body of Christ provide when you declare that they are not holy, due to not meeting your standards, therefore we have no need of them.
1 Corinthians 12:14-20 (King James Version)
14For the body is not one member, but many.
15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Romans 12:3-5 (King James Version)
3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.