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Originally Posted by Esaias
That's what I don't get. Mind prison?
My hair is short. I believe it ought to be short, because of scripture. Where's the prison? If someone taught me "if your hair gets long, if you stop cutting it, all hell will literally break loose" I don't see me fretting about it, since I wouldn't be growing my hair long anyway. Besides, I check everything with the Bible, so most likely I would either just smile and wave, or if I felt it was necessary I would ask for a comprehensive Bible study on the subject.
When you first heard these horror stories, did you stop and ask your husband? Did you search the scriptures to see if those things were true?
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Of course I did all those things. I searched, I fasted I prayed. 16 years later, in my prayer closet, I finally had a revelation and I have never been the same since.
I know you don't understand the mind prison. Men usually don't because having short hair is very accepted as the norm in our society for men. No one asks you (probably) "Why do you keep your hair short?" Women, on the other hand, have to answer all sorts of questions there is no real answer to. We know the bible says long hair is given for a covering, but we can't answer why Samson was told not to cut his hair, why the Nazarite vow and shaving of the head was also for women and why long for women means uncut but long for men means below the ears because it isn't biblical, it's just tradition.
The mind prison is hard to explain, but it's very real and the reason I write these blogs because it takes a lot for people to wrap their heads around it but most of the time, they know on some level it's true. When a woman believes these fear-mongering tales that have no basis in reality and she's told that she's wrong with God if she doesn't believe them, mind prison results.
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