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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
Being a brother if my hair is to my behind but trimmed, is it long?
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Yes, I believe that the consensus would be that it is long. Which would be contrary to the verse that is quoted later . . .
1 Corinthians 11:16
14 Doth not even
nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
It is pretty obvious that the
long in long hair is going to be subjective, as it is for women. Long as compared to what?
What I would like to focus on is the word nature. To me nature is what happens if there is no outside interference. So what is nature teaching us?
This is the way I understand it. If we take a look around in any congregation, we will see many times more bald men than we will see bald women. It is indeed unusual to see a bald woman. A bald man? Not so much! So there's that.
The other verse I would like to look at is verse 16 . . .
16 But if any man seem to be
contentious,
we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
If any man be contentious . . . Is there any contentiousness from any man?
I think it is obvious that there is. Some are contending for long hair, some are contending for hair that is uncut, some are contending that it really doesn't matter that much. There is much contending on the subject of long hair for women! So we have qualified in the contention category.
So what does the remainder of the verse say? . . . we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
If there is contention, we have no such custom. It is not there. It is interesting that Paul refers to it as a custom and not a commandment as well.
That's my thoughts. As I have said earlier in the thread, my preference for my house is uncut hair for the ladies, however if you want to contend with me about it, I refuse to do so. According to the scripture.
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