Hair: to cut or not to cut

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Dear Bro. Tim,

just something I came across yesterday on the subject of marriage. I am sure
you read the encounter Jesus had with the woman on the well. She said that
she does not have a husband and Jesus said that she had said well, since she
has been married 5 times and the one she is LIVING WITH now was NOT her
HUSBAND. Considereing, that Joseph wanted to send Mary away while they were
betrothed and that she then would have been stoned because of her being
preagnant, I believe that a Jewess probably thought twice before deciding to
live with a man out of wedlock. I don't know much about the Jewish marriage
rites, but doesn't the bible also say that if a woman is found with a man
other then her husband they both should be stoned. And, if there is no legal
covenant, why did the husband then had to say three times "I divorce you" to
get rid of her. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you I agree with you. :) I
probably get myself in trouble again with this, as I did with my other
statement on the hair issue, although it was not my intend to focus on hair
inparticular. My intend actually was to show, that the inward desire to be
holy, to love and to be pleasing to God is manifested in an outward
expression and that faith and works go hand in hand since works is faith put
to action. Maybe I ought to clarify this statement with an example: I have
faith that when I hit the light switch, the light will go on, but if I do
not put that faith to action by flipping that switch, I can wait until I'm
ninety nine for the light to go on. :) (Hope that makes sense). The bible
also says that without holiness no man shall see God. Well, I guess I quit,
before I get myself in deeper. God bless you. Doris :)


>=* That a man is living with a woman without being married would be 
>=considered gross immorality by the majority of christians. Yet, again, 
>=the marriage as we know it did not exist at the time the Bible was 
>=completed. The way what the Bible calls marriage was implemented, was 
>=simply when a man and a woman arranged to live together (somehow 
>=simplified; they had some arrangements involving money but they are not 
>=considered appropriate today).
>
>Quite a statement.  You need to back it up with solid research.  All the
>resource
>books I have (the entire college library) says quite differently.  Perhaps this
>was
>true among some Gentile cultures.  But you will find the Jewish culture quite 
>different.  I challenge you to prove this statement. ;-)  The Jewish marriage 
>customs were even more complex and binding than any marriage in our culture
>today.
>
>Tim
>
>
>
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