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Newspaper Article on Church Rules
Posted January 23rd, 2012 at 01:16 PM by Lois
This link will take you to the article: http://www.journalgazette.net/articl...FEAT/301249999
It in part states:
"In addition to wearing skirts, she does not wear makeup or cut her hair – all rules she follows because they are put forth in the Bible.
“We believe that we can’t really improve on what the Lord made us to look like,” says Hughes, who is married to the pastor at Auburn United Pentecostal Church."
Sometimes newspapers really mess up as in the beginning they say the no cutting of a woman's hair is a Pentecostal rule. No, it is not. It is with some Oneness Pentecostals and a few others, but it is certainly not a mainstream Pentecostal belief. {Note: See correction below}
It in part states:
"In addition to wearing skirts, she does not wear makeup or cut her hair – all rules she follows because they are put forth in the Bible.
“We believe that we can’t really improve on what the Lord made us to look like,” says Hughes, who is married to the pastor at Auburn United Pentecostal Church."
Sometimes newspapers really mess up as in the beginning they say the no cutting of a woman's hair is a Pentecostal rule. No, it is not. It is with some Oneness Pentecostals and a few others, but it is certainly not a mainstream Pentecostal belief. {Note: See correction below}
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They are put forth in the Bible????? That is certainly open to discussion for most thinking, civilized, nonkoolaid drinking people. If we can't improve on 'what the Lord made us to look like' then we should have hairy legs and armpits, random chin whiskers, and bushy brows; I imagine changing those features is not seen as sin --only making the hair on your 'head' more fashionable is wrong --how totally silly!
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Posted January 25th, 2012 at 08:15 PM by Nancy
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I didn't read hair as something that all UPCs taught, just something that one person or one church thinks. I am irritated that it puts forth the fallacy that women started wearing pants when they entered the work place. Women had worked in factories for at least a century or two in dresses before WWII, and women began wearing pants 10-20 years for leisure before they entered the WWII factories.
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Posted January 28th, 2012 at 11:16 AM by mary
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The paper simply parroted what the UPC couple said to them. I messed up on which standard was put forth as Pentecostal- it was pants on women, not hair cutting: "It wasn’t a job a person would usually do in a skirt, but Hughes is Pentecostal, a religion that teaches that women are not to wear pants." Mainstream Pentecostalism does not teach the no pants rule (or hair rule).
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Posted January 28th, 2012 at 11:40 AM by Lois
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