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Originally Posted by Steve Epley
Cut hair certainly makes women bad role models they are teaching by example that the Word of God is NOT important in their lives.
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I have to respectfully disagree. I'm talking about secular women. In general, I want my daughters to model themselves after godly women, but picking from the secular pool for the sake of this discussion, it isn't the hair that would make me say one person or another is a good or bad role model. Usually if I point out a good quality in a secular woman, it is pointing out work in the community or for a charity. I remember when I was a girl, my mother bought me magazines and books with pictures of Princess Diana, and told me that she was a classy dresser, and used her photos to teach me about matching outfits, etc.
Now, if we were talking about other
Apostolic women, I would certainly point my girls in the direction of those women who are moderate with the use of makeup and jewelry, who wear modest clothing, who don't cut their hair, along with a myriad of other qualities. Those are the things that reflect our beliefs, and of course I want to guide them in that direction.
There are plenty of women who wear no makeup, have long hair, wear no jewelry, and wear modest clothing, that I would
never want my daughters to emulate. They are disrespectful and disobedient to their husbands, they cause trouble in churches, they aren't committed to the church, they don't pray or fast or witness, they're critical and sour and unpleasant, and regardless of their outward appearance, I don't want our girls to have anything to do with them. They are poor examples.
That's why I said that the hair really doesn't have a lot to do with it. It does to a point. But not really. At least, it isn't a sound indicator of godliness or a lack thereof. And of course I don't expect women without knowledge of the scriptures in question to see the need to keep their hair long or uncut.
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