Head Covering for women.

[Guest Zayit]

The Roman Catholic Church paints Jesus as a long-haired white man...when in fact He was likely a brown man with short hair.

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Oh? Do you think all Jews are 'brown'?

[Joe@actsii]

If you would like to read a good book on the subject, try "Hair Length in the Bible: A Study of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16" by Daniel L. Segraves.

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Oh? Do you think all Jews are 'brown'?

Well, back then it was more likely that they would have had darker skin, since they came from the Mid-East.

[Guest Zayit]

Why do you think that?

[Gerioke]

I am more concerned with women dressing modestly, which I believe would be more in line with the spirit of this rule.

Amen to that. I attend a baptist church were the older women all wear their fancy hats and the younger and middle aged women look like cats in heat. The pastor has preached numerous times about how the men have struggles with lust and adultry and the women just keep coming in with cleavage galore and mini skirts. It's like they are tempting the men to test their fortitude. It is all very frustrating to see this kind of thing happening in church.

[mrs]

I am more concerned with women dressing modestly, which I believe would be more in line with the spirit of this rule.

Amen to that. I attend a baptist church were the older women all wear their fancy hats and the younger and middle aged women look like cats in heat. The pastor has preached numerous times about how the men have struggles with lust and adultry and the women just keep coming in with cleavage galore and mini skirts. It's like they are tempting the men to test their fortitude. It is all very frustrating to see this kind of thing happening in church.

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Maybe they should start refusing them at the door until they behave decently?

[yomotalking]

Because studies show that men had long hair in those days.

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Where are the studies that show Christ had long hair?

There's a place in the bible that shows He didn't.

This a very important teaching. One that no one wants to talk about.

Study those 16 verses I mentioned. If you don't see the message, I'd be glad to show it to you.

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I'd be interested to see them.

I don't think anyone is wrong or right here.

[yomotalking]

And why is it important?

[nebula]

Why do you think that?

Abram and his family came from the Chaldeans, correct? What color skin do the descendants of the Chaldeans now-days have?

"White" skin comes from northern Europe and Asia. I don't believe the Jewish people were originally white-skinned. That came from living for centuries in Europe and northern Asia.

Does that make sense?

[Guest shiloh357]

Funny how so much of the older art seems to show Jesus with long hair, but never the disciples or other Jews of his day. You almost always see the apostles and other Jews painted with distinct Middleeastern features, (curly black hair, hooked nose) never with long hair. Jesus is always distinctly different (blue eyes, pale skin straight, long brown/auburn hair). Great effort has been made to separate Jesus from the rest of His people.

If we were to go back in time, most of us would not recognize Jesus if we saw Him. You might be standing next to a 5' 3" inch Rabbi named, "Rav Yeshua alNatzrat ben Yoseph," and have no idea you were standing next to the Messiah unless He told you who He was. Rabbis did not have long hair, it was not the custom.

We get the long haired Jesus from two possible sources that I am currently aware of. First, many artists used women to pose as Jesus in their artwork because they wanted to capture the "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild" aspect of His nature. Jesus was man's man. He was a carpenter, and that's not a job for a wimp. They worked with wood and stone in those days, and you can bet that Jesus's skin was browned from working in the sun and his hands and feet were calloused and tough as nails. He was not lily-white and skinny.

Secondly, during the Renaissance, 14th century men, especially the artists had long hair, and it was not uncommon for them to paint Jesus as 14th century Renaissance man.