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Originally Posted by navygoat1998
Ferd do believe that if your wife cuts her hair and puts on a pair of pants while wearing makeup she would go to hell?
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I hope you respond to my previous post, before this one. but now that I have posed my own questions, here goes.
The bible clearly teaches that men should have short hair and women long. Period. That is what the bible says. It was important to Paul when he wrote it. he used words like 'ordanances' and 'everyone does it this way" related to that.
BUT nowhere does it say UNCUT. I dont teach uncut because I cannot justify that. I do not think one can simply reject scripture, tell God "not that one" and not be in rebellion. we all know where that word goes.
Long is enough. As is SHORT (for men). We should each be able to tell within ourselves what is which and if we are good with God. I dont make it my business to decide that for other people (my wife included).
Pants.
The bible teaches explicitly that men are men and women are women and ne'r the twain shall criss cross.... if you are one and trying to be the other, you are LOST. It is an abomination to God. Period. aint no way around that. Its bible.
BUT if I take a 14 year old girl out of the local highschool and march her into Macy's and walk into the Jr. Ms. department, and point at a rack of pants and tell her those are mens clothes, she is going to think I am purely and utterly nuts.
At the same time, my baptist Grandmother who died in 1990 at the age of 80, didnt own a pair of pants that I remember. Pants were mens clothes to her.
We need to get past some hangups, teach sound doctrine and give folks room to live for God within the safe confines of sound teaching. (Yea I realize this makes me left of a good part of the UPCI.... but not all of the UPCI)
As for my wife, first, she NOT ME is in charge of her relationship with God. I dont get a vote. We do talk, we do walk together, but at the end of the day I cannot and will not order her around and speak for her soul. I can be the spiritual leader in my home. I can provide sound teaching of scripture and insure my family is being fed in a congregation that teaches right. But at the end of the day, her salvation is in her own hands to work out.
My wife does not cut her hair, or wear pants or makeup. These are her convictions. We do not project our values on others one way or the other. We live our lives by the disiplines that we have formed from our own prayer lives, walk with God, and yes, the way we were raised.... but they are ours and no one elses.
One more thing. Makeup is YUCKY. period. That aint bible. but it is Truth.
Peace!
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