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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:39:02 -0800, you wrote:

>I recently completed a very long email to another Apostolic who is
>currently attending a UPC church. I have posted that email at my home page
>and would dearly love to hear responses from you other Oneness-Acts
>2:38-Apostolic's to that message. I am still waiting to hear back from
>Michael.

For those who follow this topic, please find here a piece of the
lengthy rebuke that the individual has posted to an Apostolic, who I
assume is Bro Mike E.


------- from the letter this gentleman is wanting you to read --------

>You are yet, merely building walls on the foundations of your interpretations. 

>I'll tell you what- I'll teach and base my ordinances of holiness standards
> on the exhortations expressed in such passages as- 1 Cor. 13:4-7; 
>Matt. 5:3-7:27; Gal. 5:22-24; Phi 4:8; and Col. 3:1-25, and rather than "put-off" 
>such things as my modest gold wedding band, I'll "put-off" such things as are 
> mentioned in scriptures like- 1 Cor. 6:9-10; and Gal. 5:19-21. 

>Meanwhile, you go ahead and raise your holiness standards as being seen 
>in the clothes you wear, or don't wear, in not allowing women into the ministry, and 
>in not allowing remarriages no matter the situation, and the such like. 

>And then, let's just wait and see which one of us makes the rapture. 

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Thats the kind of spirit that is waiting for them who determine to
abandon fellowship for the sense of a greater revelation and
understanding than thier elders.

It often amazes me to realize that people really do believe that the
UPCI and other organizations teach holiness standards and principles
of order without ANY comprehension of the scripture. But it is MORE
amazing that they very often make these accusations without really
knowing WHAT we teach, and evidently have acquired their understanding
from rumor, myth, legend, or some very narrow observation on one or
two examples.

-mwb