Uncut hair in church history

[On The Wheel]

Originally Posted by onefaith2

For the simple reason of your first post. I believe what the Bible calls sin is sin. Anything else is a conviction of the Holy Ghost. There are principles on the scripture like hair where the Bible never explicitly teaches uncut hair. However because long hair is a glory to the women and to be shorn or shaven is a shame, people have adopted by the leading of the Spirit a standard for the church. Not one statement in the Bible says if a women cuts her hair an inch, that is a sin and they will go to hell. However the Bible does teach in my opinion that a women should have long hair and its a shame to be shorn.

So while I may not believe cutting an inch is a sin, I do believe you live by the principle of the scripture and adopt your standards based on that. Do you understand my point?

Or say Television. No scripture says thou shalt not look at a TV as it didn't exist. However scriptural principles such as (put no evil thing before thine eye) and (set your affections on things above) lead one to develop a standard of limited or no TV viewing. One can't say its a sin to view the TV but one can say that it can LEAD to sin.

Does that better clear up my point?

Not to split hairs here (pun intended), but television did not exist when scriptures were written. Hair did. Nothing is said about trimming hair, and no, long hair does not presuppose a lack of trimming. That would be ludicrous logically.

However, this thread is not about what is said in scripture, as that has been discussed elsewhere on this board. Rather it is about how this issue has been interpreted through time.