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Originally Posted by jfrog
1.) There is nothing major wrong with saying that obedience in general grants special spiritual authority. I would probably attribute such authority to Jesus and faith on him, and say that both obedience and authority should be a direct result of that faith. But that's really just semantics because regardless of how its said, the same thing is happening. Faith is followed by obedience and authority.
But then beyond the general case is this specific one of "obedience to uncut hair". Now I agree with the argument so far that there is nothing wrong with correlating this obedience to power and authority in Jesus. However, I disagree when it is said and implied that obedience to uncut hair somehow grants more authority than obedience to anything else. This is exactly what is being done too. When stories of miracles happening for women with uncut hair are told the message is clear. That message is that keeping your hair uncut may give you these same miraculous happenings in your life. Now there is no other form of obedience that is taught with anecdotes of miracles. That alone sets this teaching apart from any other teaching about obedience.
So what has been done by LS is that he has taken the general teaching of obedience leading to authority and added miraculous happenings to the authority that comes from this one particular kind of obedience. Since miraculous things are not spoken of as happening when obeying anything else then he has given obedience to uncut hair a place of higher esteem than obedience to anything else.
To further cement this point he has said that men cannot have this same kind of authority and wisdom that is given from God by obedience to uncut hair. Now the important question for us to ask here is why is he saying men can't have the same authority and wisdom? If I'm not mistaken and I'm sure you will correct me if I am wrong, but LS ties the answer to this question not into men being men and women being women, but he ties the answer into uncut hair. That is his reason for why men can't have the same authority and wisdom.
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This is also a good post, and is in line with PO's thoughts. Thanks!
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