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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
Could some just make a summery why beards and why not beards?
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Pro:
1. There is no command or approved example or necessary inference in or from Scripture that requires the shaving off of the beard of a man.
2. There is a positive command against "marring the corners of one's beard" -
Lev 19:27
3. There are approved examples of men favoured by God who had beards (too numerous to mention).
4. There are Biblical examples of beard shaving which indicate it was considered shameful.
5. Logic indicates that beards, being distinctively masculine, are to be preferred to being clean shaven , which is more suitable to women.
6. Logic indicates that beards, being a natural indication of male adulthood, are preferable to being clean shaven, which is indicative of childhood. (Beard = man, no beard = boy.)
Con:
1. Some people prefer the professional businessman look.
2. Crumbs from food sometimes get in the beard.
3. Many women are more likely to be sexually attracted to clean shaven men than to men with beards (although most women instinctively identify bearded men as more likely to be financially stable and able to provide for a family, according to recent studies).
4. ?
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