Bearded Gospel Men

[JM]

Any thoughts on beards? I've been shaving my off during the warmer months and about to grow it back out...I just like having a beard.

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[Apologetic_Warrior]

I prefer some facial hair, my wife prefer none, quite often she wins.

 

[JM]

Is the beard popular among Federal Vision?

 

[JustAsIam77]

I've had a beard for 30 years now. My kids and grandkids would probably be frightened if I showed my face clean shaven.

 

[CalledOutOne]

As long as it's not like Calvin's Pagan beard. lol

Although I find his hat to be quite stylish.

Here's what Spurgeon had to say... from the Bearded website.

 

[gord44]

I'm out!

Can't stand facial hair. I have tried to grow a beard once or twice but can't get past a week or two before shaving it off.

 

[JM]

gord, you were almost there. lol A beard doesn't even look like a beard until it's a couple weeks old. This is about how long I allow mine to grow out:

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

The Prince of Bearded Gospel Men

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

Herman Bavinck

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

B.B. Warfield

 

[freezerman2000]

When I try to grow a beard,it winds up reminding me of the state of Texas..a bunch of "wide open spaces"!

 

[JM]

A lot of Gospel men have worn and do wear beards. I found two sermons on Sermon Audio about beards and biblical reasons for them. I'll listen latter.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

James Ussher

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

A lot of Gospel men have worn and do wear beards. I found two sermons on Sermon Audio about beards and biblical reasons for them. I'll listen latter.

Personally, I find a beard uncomfortable once it grows to a certain length. One good reason for them, might be to add warmth in colder weather. But biblical reasons? Would be news to me...reminds me of Amish men.

 

[JM]

My favorite teachers, John Gill and A. W. Pink, are beardless. They must not be Gospel men. lol The first sermon begins in Leviticus and so I started the other sermons.

 

[CalledOutOne]

"You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard." ~Leviticus 19:27

As a Messianic (if you must call me that), when I shave, I shave it all, but when I grow, I grow it all.

 

[JM]

I don't get the Messianic thing but didn't the OT teach that you were not to cut your beard, at all? It was a mark that made Israel different from the Pagan nations who were clean shaven, cut their beards for the dead, etc.

 

[CalledOutOne]

I don't get the Messianic thing but didn't the OT teach that you were not to cut your beard, at all? It was a mark that made Israel different from the Pagan nations who were clean shaven, cut their beards for the dead, etc.

The pagan nations did two things that God didn't want Israel involved in.

1) They brought their beards to a point, much like Calvin's beard in the image I posted not long ago. It was probably part of some pagan religious ceremony.

2) They marred the edges of their beard. During times of mourning the pagans wold hack at the sides of their face. They weren't clean shaved, but they were hacked up and patchy. There was probably a lot of bleeding too. This is why the Scriptures command you not to shave during times of mourning or repentance.


I don't see these things as moral, with the exception of hacking at yourself, but I recognize that God knows best.

 

[JM]

The first point is too general. Some nations grew their beards but others would attach a fake pointed beard.

I already coverd your second point in my post, yeah, that's why Israel was commanded to not cut their beards like I already posted.

How does the Messianic thing work?

You just pick what you think you should follow and that's it?

Are you a member of a Messianic assembly, if not, how does your church handle your practices?

 

[CalledOutOne]

The first point is too general. Some nations grew their beards but others would attach a fake pointed beard.

I already coverd your second point in my post, yeah, that's why Israel was commanded to not cut their beards like I already posted.

How does the Messianic thing work?

You just pick what you think you should follow and that's it?

Are you a member of a Messianic assembly, if not, how does your church handle your practices?

I usually don't call myself a Messianic. And no, I don't just pick what to follow. I follow what is morally acceptable and pleasing to Christ. Obviously going in my back yard and sacrificing a bull for my sins isn't pleasing to Christ.

I do wear the tassels whenever I wear a shirt with four corners (Numbers 11:37-41). These remind me of Christ's Law. I keep the Spiritual application (accidentally) of this law as well as the physical.

I eat Kosher. I believe that while it may be okay morally to eat swine's flesh, it isn't good for you to. God didn't design a pig to be eaten. Not only this, but during the millennial reign of Christ, Christians will revert back to kosher eating (Isaiah 66).

I keep other ceremonial (what you would probably call ceremonial anyway) laws, but not those having to do with sacrifices and offerings.

As for the civil law, I do not believe that God's standard has changed. I would concur with Greg Bahnsen on theonomy/reconstructionism.