Pentecostal Hair Styles
Jerry Moon (moon@netjava.com)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 06:28:24 -0600
At 10:34 AM 7/28/97 -0400, Donna L. Perine wrote:
>me: Bro. Tim, I will assume from your comment that you think
>it is doctrinally correct for women to cut, trim, "whack", bite, clip,
>chew (you get my point) their hair. By using 1 Cor . 11:16 to support
>your position here, I believe you have missed what Paul was
>*really* saying here. Many people have misused this verse of
>scripture to support their objections that women should have long
>*uncut* hair. They have twisted the meaning of this scripture until it
>means exactly the opposite of what Paul was very *plainly* saying.
>I believe Paul's statement in verse 16 was that the churches of God
>have no *other* custom *than that* which he has just discussed in
>the previous 15 verses.
Paul was either saying one of two things.... (and this verse is skipped
over by many) That the church had no such custom as to argued about it, or
no such custom as to whether it was a issue to cut, or not cut your hair.
In many foreign countries the christian woman has to cut her hair to
control the head lice.
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