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Originally Posted by MrsMcD
This is what I was thinking. I was taught if you trim your hair, you might as well shave it.
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This is ridiculous teaching and false.
Paul addressed the "custom" of wearing veils. It was a "CUSTOM" only ! Not a biblical requirement.
To make his point that a Corinthian woman should veil, he
compared a woman who refused to wear a veil when in temple to
a woman who had her head shaved bald as a punishment for her whoredom or adultery.
It is accepted fact among historians of this age, that
forced head shaving was a PUNISHMENT done to a woman who was found in adultery in that culture.
Paul's
comparrison of a woman who would not veil in temple as bringing equal shame upon her husband for not veiling as a woman who had her head forcibly shaved as a punishment, is in NO WAY forbiding a women to of her own volition cut or trim some of the length of her hair.
Paul's later mention of a women having long hair and a man not having long hair, is simply another analogy Paul is using to demonstrate that there are cutural differences between men and women in hair length.
That women veil when in "church" and men do not is the point in 1 cor 11
Think about it....if we have been wrong in our teaching of the never cut doctrine....and I believe with all my heart that "we" are wrong...where will we stand on judgment day.
Will God hold us accountable for the souls we have may have run off or discouraged over this teaching?
OK..I'm done now....Blast away.