New Testament writer had long hair

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Originally Posted by Baron1710

If we teach that Scripture teaches it is a sin for a man to have long hair and then we have Samuel, Sampson, John the Baptist, and maybe Elijah having long hair seems inconsistent. Commands in Scripture to shave a woman’s head if she were to take the nazirite vow, if she were a foreign captive taken as a wife etc. the fact that Paul took a nazarite vow in the NT, regardless of the fact that he was a Jew, the Old Covenant was finished.

You don't see a contradiction when you teach it is a sin for a man to have long hair and for a woman to cut hers??

There is no inconsistency at all.
Scripture tells us that both Samuel and Samson (and quite possibly John) were Nazirites from birth, so it would be understood that their long hair was a sign of the Nazirite vow they were under all their lives.

(I don't see where the Bible says Elijah had long hair)

The captured heathen women were to have their hair shaven (and their finger nails & toenails nails clipped off) as part of a purification process before being allowed into the family of Israel.

These were both special situations clearly described by scripture. Neither of those situations/scenarios negate the fact that under God's natural law (1 Cor 11:14), men are expected to have short hair and women to let their hair grow.