*reads all this over and thinks then nods* Ok. I’m gonna go ahead and demonstrate the knowledge I’ve gained from growing up in church, and be all clinical for once.
Everything about nails, hair, (beard or otherwise), glasses...that’s all preference. No where in the Bible does it ever say anything about that, so those who do say they’re following the Bible because of those behaviors are just trying to look righteous or are mislead into believing that’s part of the bargain. The Amish do it for different reasons, but I can’t see criticizing them ‘cause they keep to themselves and don’t bother anyone else about their religion.
It does say that God clothed Adam and Eve after they’d sinned because they ‘knew they were naked, and were ashamed’. The idea is that before they sinned, they were innocent and never realized they were naked because they never looked at each other that way (proving that ignorance is bliss). So after they realized, they were ashamed of their nakedness, so God fixed them up by killing animals and making clothes for them (because they didn’t know how).
I know that the ‘old time Pentecostals’ draw from the 1 Corinthians 11:14 verse about hair, because it says nature teaches you that it’s ashamed for a man to have long hair and a woman’s hair is her glory. That’s why they think women shouldn’t cut their hair but men should. However, if you read farther down, 1 Corinthians 11:16 says that if anyone wants to specify about it, there isn’t a law concerning it. In other words: God does care about your hair. He doesn’t care about appearance either, it’s more the condition of the heart that matters. This is a terrible example of someone reading one verse and taking that to build a principle on. It happens a lot, and shows that you have to read the whole thing if you wanna get it all.
The piercing, I confess, I don’t know about. But, women are always piercing their ears to wear pretty earrings, and that goes for Pentecostals (who are some of the strictest that I’m aware of). Tattoos are more of an issue, ‘cause it does say not to mark your bodies, but that’s because in the ‘last days’ those who receive ‘the mark of the beast’ will be condemned to hell. It also says something about how your body is a temple, so that could fuel the piercing&tattoos issue.
And thus, years of going to an Assembly’s of God church pays off, because whenever someone says ‘God wants you to do this or that’ and you know it’s crap, you can throw it right back at them with the ammo they were trying to use. Now, I shall return to my blithe ineptness and not speak again till my own entry tonight.
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Date: 2005-07-07 02:58 pm (UTC)Everything about nails, hair, (beard or otherwise), glasses...that’s all preference. No where in the Bible does it ever say anything about that, so those who do say they’re following the Bible because of those behaviors are just trying to look righteous or are mislead into believing that’s part of the bargain. The Amish do it for different reasons, but I can’t see criticizing them ‘cause they keep to themselves and don’t bother anyone else about their religion.
It does say that God clothed Adam and Eve after they’d sinned because they ‘knew they were naked, and were ashamed’. The idea is that before they sinned, they were innocent and never realized they were naked because they never looked at each other that way (proving that ignorance is bliss). So after they realized, they were ashamed of their nakedness, so God fixed them up by killing animals and making clothes for them (because they didn’t know how).
I know that the ‘old time Pentecostals’ draw from the 1 Corinthians 11:14 verse about hair, because it says nature teaches you that it’s ashamed for a man to have long hair and a woman’s hair is her glory. That’s why they think women shouldn’t cut their hair but men should. However, if you read farther down, 1 Corinthians 11:16 says that if anyone wants to specify about it, there isn’t a law concerning it. In other words: God does care about your hair. He doesn’t care about appearance either, it’s more the condition of the heart that matters. This is a terrible example of someone reading one verse and taking that to build a principle on. It happens a lot, and shows that you have to read the whole thing if you wanna get it all.
The piercing, I confess, I don’t know about. But, women are always piercing their ears to wear pretty earrings, and that goes for Pentecostals (who are some of the strictest that I’m aware of). Tattoos are more of an issue, ‘cause it does say not to mark your bodies, but that’s because in the ‘last days’ those who receive ‘the mark of the beast’ will be condemned to hell. It also says something about how your body is a temple, so that could fuel the piercing&tattoos issue.
And thus, years of going to an Assembly’s of God church pays off, because whenever someone says ‘God wants you to do this or that’ and you know it’s crap, you can throw it right back at them with the ammo they were trying to use. Now, I shall return to my blithe ineptness and not speak again till my own entry tonight.
Oh and, hi, btw.