Pentecostal Hair Styles

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In a message dated 97-07-28 03:55:16 EDT, you write:

<< But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
 neither the churches of God.  >>

I would like to respond to the above mentioned scripture.  Someone once used
this scripture on me to tell me that if someone didn't want to have long
"uncut" hair they didn't have to, because the Bible says that we have no such
custom, neither the churches of God.  I went to looking up scripture!!!!!

This is what I found:

New International Version:

I Cor 11:14-16  "Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man
has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, (15) but if a woman has long hair, it
is her glory?  For long hair is given to her as a covering. (16) If anyone
wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice-nor do the
churches of God.

Living Bible:

(14-15)Doesn't even instinct itself teach us that women's heads should be
covered?  For women are proudof their long hair, while a man with long hair
tends to be ashamed. (16) But if anyone wants to argue about this, all I can
say is that we never teach anthing else than this--that a woman should wear a
covering when prophesying or praying publicly in the church, and all the
churches feel the same way about it.

New Revised Standard:

(14)Does not nature itself, teach you that if a man wears long hair, it is
degrading to him, (15) but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory?  For
her hair is given to her for a covering.  (16)But if anyone is disposed to be
contentious--we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

When I first read the scripture in the King James Version (Which BTW, is what
I read all of the time)  I felt like it meant that it doesn't matter what
others do.....we teach this and believe that women should have long hair and
that is the way it is!  We have no other teaching.........people will just
have to accept this.    And that is the way the church of God believes it.
  Then when I read the scriptures in the other translations I felt like this
is EXACTLY what it meant in the KJV !

Then I looked up the word CONTENTIOUS  and found this is Websters:

Contentious...tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome

In Strongs it says;

Fond of strife

Then in looking up the word strife, I found this :

I Cor 3:3 For ye are yet carnal; for wheras there is amoung you envying, and
STRIFE, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

So, I found that to be contentious is to be carnal, so I kinda turned my
thinking around and decided that the scripture meant......If any man be
carnal......then we have no such custom.

God deliver me from being carnal (which, BTW, Webster quotes as "pertaining
to or characterized by the passions and appetites of the flesh or body;
sensual. 2 not spiritual; temporal; worldly)

Sincerely;
Sis. Brenda