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Originally Posted by tdowns007  I hate to say it, but, when people in the "Church", are actually worried about shoulder length hair, on a man, etc...are they really getting what being a Christian is all about?
I fear far more--spiritually speaking--for the person, who is hung up on long hair or clothing styles (I'm not talking modesty), than I do about those who are wearing such.
With so many issues of the day, post-modern thought, man centered righteousness, the elect still in need of a clear gospel message, etc.; for someone to actually focus on the length of hair...seems like they are missing it!
In my study of the Emergent Churches, I find error after error, but it is the very fact, that people can and will be judged for hair length, that those movements have been born. When the Church becomes a place of rote ritual, and rules about hair, it's no wonder, they want to re-invent it.
Let's keep it real, let's keep it about Jesus, the Holy God, King of Kings...let's keep it about sound doctrine...hair length is not what it's about...really sad actually.  |
Is taking the verse that says "Be not drunk on wine" to mean that we shouldn't get drunk turning the Church into a place of rote ritual? The verse says that it's wrong for a man to have long hair. If you want to argue for a particular interpretation, fine, but to say that someone who derives from this verse its most surface-level meaning is "not keeping it about Jesus" is silly. No one, at least on this board, is getting unnecessarily "hung up" on verses which at least seem to be clearly implying something.
I've heard some argue for headcoverings based on the fact that Paul uses arguments from nature in this passage, not cultural relevance. If this is so, how can the statement about long hair be taken as culturally conditioned?
"How long is 'long'?" one might ask. I don't know. How drunk is drunk? That questions such as this can be asked does not deny the reality of the principle, if that is what Paul is teaching. That the line between "a nice buzz" and "drunkenness" can be blurry does not abrogate the principle of not getting drunk.