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Originally Posted by Praxeas
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I just had an interesting thought too...why should we assume Paul was completely bald? Im sure he cut it short, but I don't see why it necessarily means bald ie noting but skin.
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Thanks for the verses and commentary. Very interesting and something I will be looking further into. But I'm still trying to find out why there seems to be a black or white area only. Either they cut it all off or they didn't cut at all.
I also don't see how this ties into
1 Cor. 11, if it even does, but it's interesting all the same. Because if it did tie in, then there are no gray areas. This would mean (to me) that women shouldn't cut their hair at all, and men, unless they had a vow, would have to have their heads shorn or shaven all the time. Yet I don't find in my readings thus far that Jewish men wore their hair that way in Biblical times. It seems that their culture had a definition for what was long hair on a man.
Too much thinking for my brain at the moment.
As for the post above, I don't assume Paul was bald, as scripture never says that. He had his head shorn after the vow, but that doesn't mean his head was shaved bald. I've heard people claim it was, as you also have heard.
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