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Originally Posted by Baron1710
If it was a sin for a man to have long hair there wouldn't be an exception that God put in the Scripture. Every other Scripture in the Bible that talks about hair growing or being cut is contrary to this interpretation of I Cor. Why do we continue to see this ONE verse this way?
We have ONE verse about baptism for the dead, there are more theories on it than you can count but we criticize people who interpret ONE verse to mean we baptize for the dead. We don’t believe baptism is for the dead. Why? Because we have other Scriptures that seem to teach otherwise.
There are numerous verses about Jesus name baptism and we interpret Jesus’ statement Matthew 28 in light of those Scriptures.
Why are we so inconsistent about this passage |
I don't see an inconsistancy. The Nazarite vow wasn't a man with merely a long hair style. It was relatively unkept and humbling in addition to other rules of consecration. Paul addresses the long Hellenistic hair styles of Corinth by saying that if a man has long hair it is a "shame". Notice Paul clearly states that long hair styles on a man is a shame. However, he doesn't call it a "sin"...therefore Nazarites aren't in sin.
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