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Originally Posted by pelathais
Hi Proudfather - I'm proud too! 
I don't agree with your statement about "why are we suddenly confused" about the uncut hair issue. I noticed that the quote you shared from the NLT didn't even mention uncut hair.
Historically, this is really a "new issue" among Apostolics. The farthest back I've been able to even trace the teaching is a 1937 article by S.G. Norris. My own family, which traces Apostolic roots back to GT Haywood and Howard Goss' ministries didn't stop trimming their hair until the social upheavals of the 1960s' were taking place.
Holiness not only "matters," it is essential. Adding the "uncut hair" doctrine to the apostle's doctrine however, is not "holiness" - IMHO. It's a bit profane.
The Word of God and the teachings of the First Century apostles are something that is very HOLY to me. This is sacred ground. Let's not bring in the "sacred cows" and others beasts from the world to trammel the Holy Place. |
I wanted to address the uncut hair issue and S.G. Norris. Even if he believed that women should have uncut hair he did not teach it as an absolute. My grandmother went to ABI early 1940s, I think. She was not taught uncut hair and the UPC church in MN that my mother grew up in did not teach uncut hair until the 1970s. My mother attended ABI in the late 1960s and there were women there with cut hair and it was not an issue. So, even if S.G. Norris believed it, it was not taught and was not a requirement at ABI, at least up to the point that my parents attended in the late 1960s.
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