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My wife has multiple piercings. I am about half and half white shirt blue shirt to church. I don't have a tattoo but don't think its a big deal if you want one. I just can't get excited about it one way or the other.
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You don't do things to flant the law, but you should be developing your own compass so that you will be a moral individual. Jesus countered the legalism (*a nod to Jay*) of the mosaic law with the mercy of understanding people as individuals and not just as objects to be actuarily sorted. Love your neighbor in Deuteronomy meant love Jews who observed the law (this is clear because in the very next chapters the people are told to kill homosexuals and those who break the Sabbath, and to chop the hand's off a woman who punches a man in the junk and so on). There were to be no exceptions. Jesus proffered a new understanding of neighbor, one that asked us to treat all people as individuals created in the image of god and deserving consideration. Have some people not read the New Testament? As an aside, I agree with '71. The Temple Recommend interview is the real standard and it is deliberately vague on some points.
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Yes, and you're right to call me out here. I apologize for lumping you in like that. Will you elaborate on where you're coming from on this?
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I'm simply voicing my opposition not so much to the question of whether we should do everything the brethren "counsel", but the dismissive attitude some have voiced in the process. How that amounts to Pharisaic is beyond me. |
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I started the thread because I was curious how people handled the other end of the spectrum from the "kill in the name of God" commands. The responses have been very interesting.
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Are we not to govern ourselves?
The church leadership should provide doctrine, which it hasn't for almost 100 years, and make business decisions, which it does quite well. GBH telling girls that wearing two earrings is bad, and people thinking that that actually comes from God himself is almost laughable. The Lord splitting hairs over the merits of one earring v. two? The Lord caring if his sacrament is passed by boys wearing white shirts? The church is a temporary stopover in one's spiritual journey, it shouldn't be a lifesource. |
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