Uncut Hair

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Long hair is scriptural. Not "uncut".

I agree with much of what you have to say brother. Annnnd, I am not all fired up about this subject so I didn't vote.

But if your wife (or my wife or daughters) cuts their hair, one thing is for sure. It will not be as long. Right?

I personally prefer my wife and daughters to have uncut hair (and they do).

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

I agree with much of what you have to say brother. Annnnd, I am not all fired up about this subject so I didn't vote.

But if your wife (or my wife or daughters) cuts their hair, one thing is for sure. It will not be as long. Right?

I personally prefer my wife and daughters to have uncut hair (and they do).

Long hair for women is good and its scriptural. I have not had a scripture ever presented to me that teaches women cant trim their hair.

[BuckeyeBukaroo]

The covering prescribed in the Bible for a woman is something other than her hair-- else all men with hair on their head would dishonor God every time they prayed.

[Strict Baptist]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeBukaroo

The covering prescribed in the Bible for a woman is something other than her hair-- else all men with hair on their head would dishonor God every time they prayed.

The forsaking of a covering is a markedly late invention by the church world at large. Feminism has successfully liberated women from scriptural modesty into beastly communism, down to the nadir of existence where she is only worth her parts. I miss the days to a degree in my boyhood where a woman wearing yoga pants would be dismissed from public for her lewd clothes. Now, even children wear it. We would have been suspended for that two decades or less ago.

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeBukaroo

The covering prescribed in the Bible for a woman is something other than her hair-- else all men with hair on their head would dishonor God every time they prayed.

I studied this topic years ago and I came to the same conclusion.

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

I studied this topic years ago and I came to the same conclusion.

You all are exactly right. As I understand it most of the "Black" Apostolics practice this. I cant think off hand of any of the "White" Apostolics that do.

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Long hair for women is good and its scriptural. I have not had a scripture ever presented to me that teaches women cant trim their hair.

I believe you’re right about this. I’ve had them presented plenty. I just don’t believe they were in the proper context.

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

I agree with much of what you have to say brother. Annnnd, I am not all fired up about this subject so I didn't vote.

But if your wife (or my wife or daughters) cuts their hair, one thing is for sure. It will not be as long. Right?

I personally prefer my wife and daughters to have uncut hair (and they do).

Being a brother if my hair is to my behind but trimmed, is it long?

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Being a brother if my hair is to my behind but trimmed, is it long?

Bump

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Being a brother if my hair is to my behind but trimmed, is it long?

Yes, I believe that the consensus would be that it is long. Which would be contrary to the verse that is quoted later . . .

1 Corinthians 11:16

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

It is pretty obvious that the long in long hair is going to be subjective, as it is for women. Long as compared to what?

What I would like to focus on is the word nature. To me nature is what happens if there is no outside interference. So what is nature teaching us?

This is the way I understand it. If we take a look around in any congregation, we will see many times more bald men than we will see bald women. It is indeed unusual to see a bald woman. A bald man? Not so much! So there's that.

The other verse I would like to look at is verse 16 . . .

16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

If any man be contentious . . . Is there any contentiousness from any man?
I think it is obvious that there is. Some are contending for long hair, some are contending for hair that is uncut, some are contending that it really doesn't matter that much. There is much contending on the subject of long hair for women! So we have qualified in the contention category.

So what does the remainder of the verse say? . . . we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

If there is contention, we have no such custom. It is not there. It is interesting that Paul refers to it as a custom and not a commandment as well.

That's my thoughts. As I have said earlier in the thread, my preference for my house is uncut hair for the ladies, however if you want to contend with me about it, I refuse to do so. According to the scripture.