Featured Facial Hair

I maintain a close shave most of the time. I let it lie(or is it "lay") fallow about one day per week.

I've experimented with beards in my 20s and it just doesn't suit me.

My remarks have nothing to do with religious convictions.

 

No.

 

It's not a sin for a Christian man to have a beard. Sheesh. Typical BJU drivel.

 

Our next subject for discussion :The propriety of bell bottom pants for men and women.

 

No, we must discuss the sinfulness of open-toed shoes on women!

 

If they "pulled it off" they wouldn't have it. ;-) Okay, okay.

Around here a strand of 6 hairs is rather pathetic looking hanging off a chin.

A sparcely grown goatee is just not worth it.

Former MMA star Don Frye would look weird without his famous stach.

 

Are these the same IFB churches that displayed photos of Jesus with clean robes, neatly combed hair and a beard?

Rob

 

Neatly combed long hair.

 

There are these well-known paintings of Jesus --including the one where he's knocking on the door.

In South Korea a huge painting pictured him with very blond hair and light blue eyes. This was in a church. I said that Jesus was Jewish, not Scandinavian.

I'm against all forms of pictorial representations of God.

 

Not sure what their policy is for students/faculty, but my (limited) knowledge concerning returning graduates is that there is no issue. This was first noted in 2000 when my daughter got her bachelor's and our full-bearded pastor attended (was his 25th class reunion as well.) Dr. Bob III greeted him with something like, "Brother, you can't hide that smile behind a beard." (Our pastor was and is well noted for his broad and near-constant smile.) However, not everyone was so gracious. A friend who grew a beard while on missionary service in Newfoundland (where the climate makes dense facial hair a real advantage) lost financial support from a small Greenville area church, whose pastor he'd known for many years, when he visited while fully fledged. He was warmly welcomed when visiting the university.

Rippon: I agree, and our church has no such pictures hanging in the walls. When a picture I wish to show to my SS class (4th-6th gr.) includes a portrayal of Jesus, I always note that we don't know what He looked like, usually adding that photography was rather primitive back then. Scripture in no place (other than at the Transfiguration) implies that the incarnate Jesus' physical appearance was remarkably different from that of the general populace, which probably points to dark hair and an "Eastern Mediterranean" skin tone.

 

I apologize for mis-reading the OP. The OP said, "here is another BJU type question" but never actually named BJU as the culprit from the 70's and 80's that said it was sinful for men to wear beards. I just assumed that was the entity in question.

 

I know of a few pastors (and becoming fewer as the years go by) that do not allow a man with facial hair to preach in their church. I go back and forth with my facial hair. For a few months after leaving the Army, I didn't shave at all. Then I went clean shaven. This week I decides to go back to my pre-military goatee. (Short and trimmed).



Yesterday, I almost wore my dress uniform to church, but couldn't bring myself to do so with facial hair.

 

Thanks goodness they are becoming fewer. Completely ridiculous idea. Almost as dumb as the pastor that I know who was asked to preach at a church. He showed up in a shirt and tie, yet the shirt was not white. He was asked to change into a white shirt before preaching. And even crazier they had a selection of white shirts in a back room that he could select from. Sad.

 

Mine is scruffy and suits my face as it covers the baby butt hanging from my chin.

The real question is, is it a sin for a Christian woman to have a beard?