Women Cutting Their Hair, Please Help.

[James Griffin]

Originally posted on another forum but I believe pertinent to this thread.



One of the basic tenets of good hermeneutics is that you cannot base an entire doctrine on a single passage of scripture.

For example, suppose for some bizarre reason the meaning of Acts 2:38 were to come under question. If you were to momentarily ignore that passage, there are dozens of verses dealing with repentance, several examples of exactly how the apostles baptized and various verses explaining the necessity of being filled with the Holy Ghost and once again examples of exactly what happened went people were actually baptized with the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 being the only correct response to the gospel is by no means dependant SOLELY on the existence of Acts 2:38.

Similarly every single tenet “vital to salvation” can be explained and defined by using scripture. In I Corinthians 11 it was stated that hair was important enough to warrant half a chapter, I would respectfully disagree and suggest that portion of scripture had to do with the hierarchy of authority and hair was merely used as an example. Yet some would take a single verse like 1 Cor 11:10 and build an entire doctrine unsupported by scripture anywhere else in the Bible. I would also respectfully submit that the meaning and definition of “long” is subject to REASONABLE interpretation and it is unconscionable to me that anything so vital as to effect whether or not one is saved to be rendered in an ambiguous passage.

I believe it is simply wrong to equate this passage to the blood of Christ, repentance, burial in His name, being filled or being filled with His Spirit.

I do understand and support the necessity of separation, I do freely admit I have a different opinion as to what that entails than I did as a child.

With that understanding I would have to say no it is not “vital to salvation.” In that as stated above it is not my understanding that a woman who has been buried in His Name, repented of her sins, is pure inside and out, has an indisputably feminine appearance will split hell wide open because she trims split ends. Which IS the position of many here !!

However, take away ANY part of repentance, burial in His name, being filled with the Holy Ghost living a pure life within and without and you are lacking something “VITAL TO SALVATION”