From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: CONTRADICTIONS
Date: 2 Jan 93 13:42:18 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.

In article <C04qqt.56D@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu> ctrcsa@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Chris S. Arnold) writes:
> 
> >>In article..(Re: Long Haired Man)...sco@aero.org (Stacey C. O'Brien) writes:
> ....DELETED......
> >>The stuff about Samson is good (silly that you would even have to talk
> >>to people about this - it's really none of their business how you wear
> >>your hair. People like that are just trying to be controlling and
> >>manipulative. Next thing you know they'll be telling you what career
> >>to have and who to marry! sheesh!).......I REALLY hope you don't get 
> >>pushed around by these people becasue GOD has a plan for your life and 
> >>it's probably nothing like what they assume it "should" be. We're each 
> >>unique and created with certain talents and tastes, and instead of 
> >>fighting that and trying to be what someone else is comfortable with - 
> >>we should be who we really are, reach people we can really reach, 
> >>express what we can really express, and live fully and freely in the 
> >>light of God's love and truth. All this nitpicking is for the birds.....
> 
> 	I think the above is very well stated, but look at an earlier reply.
> IS THIS THE SAME PERSON???????????????/
> 
> In article <1hsl3mINNo1f@news.aero.org> sco@aero.org (Stacey C. O'Brien) also writes:
> >>>HA! Are you guys nuts or something? Obviously we shouldn't even be
> >>READING a bible, since we have leaders who should disciple us in
> >>all authority - we'd better submit too, or we have a spirit of
> >>rebellion! - ?
> >>ANYTHING about scripture? If a person comes up to you and declares
> >>him/her self to have authority over you and says "You'd better submit!"
> >>then, You'd Better Submit! Forget this Bible stuff and do what that
> >>person tells you to do, like wash their car to learn servanthood,
> >>stuff like that. Sheesh! Also, Our Leaders can tell us who to marry,
> >>how to worship, but most importantly, how to serve them better and
> >>be more pleasing to them. So the main goal of Christianity, as I see
> >>it, isn't all this Bible and prayer balderdash. It's really about
> >>making our leaders feel good about themselves....
> 
> 	What's wrong with this picture.  You can't tell this guy with 
> long-hair not to pay attention to what the people in the church say about
> his hair and then on the other side say "...If a person comes up to you and declares
> him/her self to have authority over you and says "You'd better submit!"
> then, You'd Better Submit!  This isn't right.  This is a contradiction if I ever
> seen one!!

When you have been reading this group for a while, you get to know the
regular posters like Stacey, and the positions they hold on issues. I
would bet that the second of Stacey's postings you quoted was made with
Tongue very firmly In Cheek!

Tony.
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