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Question: Do you believe long hair is a sin?

1. Not what I believe, but what the Bible teaches, that I'm sure
your interest is in.

2. Bible deals with this question in 1 Cor. 11:14,15.  Word is
"shame." Also translated "dishonor" or "disgrace." Same word is
used in Rom. 1:26 to describe passions that were sinful, in the
context, homosexuality: "vile passion." Is that which is shameful,
disgraceful, dishonorable, and vile, right, or wrong?

3. God has made a distinction between the sexes. The length of hair
is one aspect of that. /For a man to wear long hair is to obscure
God's natural distinctions between the sexes/ (Willis, p.376).
Principle of Deut. 22:5: "The woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment."

4. The only stated exception to this was the Nazarite vow, Num. 6:5. During
the duration of the vow, the man with the Nazarite vow would not cut his hair
or shave.  When the vow was terminated, his hair was cut.

5. Ancient statues of the Greeks and Romans show that the men wore
their hair short. (Macknight, p.180).


Related question: Did Jesus have long hair?
     1) Nazarite vow provided for long hair (Num.6) Visibly
different; the one who thus voluntarily took the vow was visibly set apart
from others.    2) Jesus was NOT a Nazarite.  He was a "Nazarene" because He
was from Nazareth (Matt. 2:23). The two terms are unrelated.     2) Jesus did
not do that which is otherwise shameful to do (see principle of 1 Cor.
11:14,15).

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