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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
Why the obsessive focus on women only? Don't you think it's probably more of a blatant attempt to give women a deeper reason for uncut hair than anything else? Tell a woman scripture says something that isn't crystal clear but is POSSIBLE is one thing--she may or may not go with the safest bet. However, if you appeal to her desire to please God and protect those she loves? She's not going to even question it, because you've not only given her a purpose, but you've instilled fear.
It's manipulation, PURE AND SIMPLE. If it weren't, we would hear just as many sermons about men and their short hair.
And don't tell me that LS thinks men have the same power; he said in one of his sermons that he has been talking to pastors about a problem in the church, a problem that apparently the godly pastor couldn't solve. In would walk his wife with her uncut hair and offer the necessary wisdom, where her husband's failed.
Two things:
1. Men don't have the same power in their short hair as women do in their long hair--THAT message is clearly relayed.
2. Men are made out to be insignificant and inferior in regard to spiritual matters.
The LANGUAGE? The language is clearly representing what LS (and others) believe. Unfortunately for their defenders. LOL!!!! It isn't the LANGUAGE that needs to change; it's the belief system.
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I understand your concern... I would agree that uncut hair doesn't give a woman spiritual wisdom that she cannot obtain through her own spirituality through obedience and submission to God. A woman spiritual woman, obedient and submitted to God, may indeed have wisdom into matters that her husband cannot or hasn't received an answer for. A word of wisdom can flow through anyone whom God chooses, but doesn't flow through everyone all the time. God can deal with a godly woman in wisdom at times He is not dealing directly with the husband. It's not directly connected with uncut hair, but it is directly connected with spiritual and submission... thus a pastor's wife who has uncut hair (i.e. obedient and submitted) may indeed receive knowledge or wisdom from God that her husband isn't privy to in the spirit. But this CAN and DOES work the other way too... sometimes, more often than not probably, God will reveal things to the husband that he doesn't reveal to the wife. It's a God thing either way.
I can see how some would have a problem with the way it is presented, but in reality, if you parse LS's language here, it is not as "unscriptural" as some would have us believe. I see what you're saying regarding manipulation, but I do not think that is the case at all. I think encouraging "the flock" to be obedient and submitted to the instructions of
1 Cor 11 regarding hair, indeed does carry weight in the spirit realm, as much as submission to any other instruction in scripture does. For apostle Paul to spend a half chapter in the Bible dealing with authority, submittedness, and the God-ordained symbol of that submittedness, certainly warrants a single sermon all to itself devoted to this issue.
You can say that Paul is being manipulative by framing his instructions regarding hair in issues of submittedness, authority, angels, God, Christ, man, flow etc... but it's the way God ordained it to be framed. Paul didn't give undue emphasis regarding hair, for at least 5 times in 1 Cor he instructs that this epistle is for "all the churches". For LS or anyone else to go to "all the churches" and teach the principles and application of
1 Cor 11 is NOT unwarranted, and is absolutlely appropriate. JMHO....
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