Uncut Hair

[Sean]

It is about long hair/short hair.

The question is, how long is okay, and how short is okay?

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Sean

It is about long hair/short hair.

The question is, how long is okay, and how short is okay?

... which, ultimately, is a cultural issue.

One of the key parts to that whole passage to me is the phrase, "if it is a shame"...

There are situations where it is not a shameful for a woman to have short hair.



Besides, I am pretty sure that if we could go back 2,000 years ago, we would see the women wearing actual head coverings (in addition to their hair).

Scriptures were written (and even later translated) within the context of the culture of the human writer.

[Jermyn Davidson]

An example of culture affecting the translation of scriptures is something I read about a long time ago concerning an Old Testament passage that the original KJV "mis-translated".

At the end of one particularly brutal Old Testament battle, King David and his men went through and physically emasculated their wounded enemies. The KJV describes the brutality as, "cutting off the mens' tails".

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

... which, ultimately, is a cultural issue.

One of the key parts to that whole passage to me is the phrase, "if it is a shame"...

There are situations where it is not a shameful for a woman to have short hair.


Yes, true, some women cannot grow long hair.



Besides, I am pretty sure that if we could go back 2,000 years ago, we would see the women wearing actual head coverings (in addition to their hair).

Scriptures were written (and even later translated) within the context of the culture of the human writer.

True, but 1 Cor. 11 uses only HAIR as a covering method. nothing else is mentioned. Vails are an assumption, because they are not mentioned as a covering.

If they were also mentioned by Paul, then Paul was commanding them to be double covered.