Are we commanded to cut our hair or not?

[Vickilynn]

I am not merely attacking beliefs. I am attacking the imposition of those beliefs upon other people in form of manmade rules. That is the part you conveniently over look. Again, I do not receive what you have to say, and you are really wasting your time. You don't know what you are talking about, and I think you would find your time spent in more profitable ways than trying to convince me of anything you have to say at this point. If you can't discuss the issue and want to harp about my responses, like I said, you are just wasting your time and energy. I am not going to concede to you on any point.

Shalom Shiloh,

Again, you are wrong in your assumptions. Doesn't it bother you that you are continually posting false information? Do you not care about truth?

It doesn't matter what you receive or not from me Brother. That is between you and G-d. Iy time is mine to use and I will continue to stand up against rudeness and lack of grace as I see it because it is unChrist-like. I have no doubt that you will not concede for you are even refusing to take responsibility for your false accusations, false assumptions and false information. This is very concerning from someone who seeks to teach the Scriptures yet does not bother to find the truth about what they are posting as fact.

I will continue to pray for you and post as I see fit. What you decide to do is between you and G-d. But, be assured there are plenty of people reading who are seeing both sides played out and hopefully, prayerfully, they will decide to find out the truth from the Scriptures and not take one man's teaching.

[OopsMartin]

My goodness. What is this thread about again.

[Vickilynn]

I

was neither upset, nor offended by being called "Vic." I simply stated that my name was Vickilynn. Again, please do not assume what you do not know.

Judging from Giaour's response, you were quite upset and even had her on "ignore" for a while as I recall her saying. Doesn't sound like you were not upset or offended.

Shalom,

I know you are trying to bait me into getting offended or upset, but Brother, you are missing your mark.

You know nothing of the situation other than your assumption, which is totally off-base. You have never bothered to find out the truth, yet you post false information instead of truth. All these things you have said are total lies, which you have no problem posting.

And you seek to teach the Scriptures? This is something people need to know about those who teach the Word and how much they care about the truth.

So, when you tell people that your view of the Scriptures is the only correct one, I pray they will remember that you do not bother to dig for the truth. It is important when reading a message board to know these things.

[Vickilynn]

My goodness. What is this thread about again.

Shalom,

It's about hair length and discussing hair length in a gracious way even if we disagree.

[Guest shiloh357]

Again, you are wrong in your assumptions. Doesn't it bother you that you are continually posting false information? Do you not care about truth?

What false information? Everything I have said is the truth, and if it weren't our mods who have been monitoring this, would have done something about it like they did when Floatingaxe was attacked.

It doesn't matter what you receive or not from me Brother. That is between you and G-d. Iy time is mine to use and I will continue to stand up against rudeness and lack of grace as I see it because it is unChrist-like.

Yeah you do that while posting rude ungracious articles that claim that Christians with long hair are like rotting flesh or look like demons and such. Honestly... I have three words for you, Vicilynn: "Pot, Kettle, Black."

Again, telling someone they are wrong is not ungracious. That is the nature of real debate, like it or not.

I have no doubt that you will not concede for you are even refusing to take responsibility for your false accusations, false assumptions and false information.

Again, what false accusations? Where have I accused anyone falsely and where I have presented false information? So far, nothing credible or meaningful has been presented.

I will continue to pray for you

Don't bother. I don't particularly care for people like you to lift uup self-righteous, condescending "prayers" on my behalf. I have done nothing wrong. I simply expressed a level honesty that you are unable to face up to.

This is very concerning from someone who seeks to teach the Scriptures yet does not bother to find the truth about what they are posting as fact.

See, this is something you have yet to prove. You are long on the accusation part, but short on the evidence part. You whine a lot, and blow a lot of smoke, but you really don't have anything credible to back up such accusations with.

[Guest shiloh357]

I

was neither upset, nor offended by being called "Vic." I simply stated that my name was Vickilynn. Again, please do not assume what you do not know.

Judging from Giaour's response, you were quite upset and even had her on "ignore" for a while as I recall her saying. Doesn't sound like you were not upset or offended.

Shalom,

I know you are trying to bait me into getting offended or upset, but Brother, you are missing your mark.

You know nothing of the situation other than your assumption, which is totally off-base. You have never bothered to find out the truth, yet you post false information instead of truth. All these things you have said are total lies, which you have no problem posting.

And you seek to teach the Scriptures? This is something people need to know about those who teach the Word and how much they care about the truth.

So, when you tell people that your view of the Scriptures is the only correct one, I pray they will remember that you do not bother to dig for the truth. It is important when reading a message board to know these things.

I saw the exchange beteween you and Giaour and how upset you got about being called "vic" and you whined about how rudely you were being treated back then. . Please don't try and pretend it was anything other than what it was. I am neither lying nor presenting false information. It is just another example of your inability to deal with a debate environment.

[Floatingaxe]

My goodness. What is this thread about again.

Shalom,

It's about hair length and discussing hair length in a gracious way even if we disagree.

Mine is 6 cm long.

[Vickilynn]

Shalom Shiloh,

Here's just a few to chew on. So you can quit saying that no one ever called you on your false accusations.

My views were characterized in worse terms than that, but you refuse to acknowledge or address that.

False.

Of course, you refuse to acknowledge the lack of "grace and respect" in those actions...

false

since you obviously agree with their position to start with, which only shows the lack of objectivity you possess in this issue.

false

When you visit your perfectionism on those who have falsely accused me, ...

name-calling

but you even crossed the line by denigrating fellow believers by posting an article that equates long haired Christian men with being like decaying, rotting flesh.

false

Judging from Giaour's response, you were quite upset and even had her on "ignore" for a while as I recall her saying. Doesn't sound like you were not upset or offended.

outright lies

These are just the recent ones

[Openly Curious]

'Floatingaxe'

The truth is, that when you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, you have more power to comprehend what the Spirit is saying to you.

Keep a close relationship with Him and let Him speak to your heart. It is what He says to us that matters. He alone is right.

It is not by living according to the letter of the law, but by the spirit of it that God is teaching us. We are free people, folks. Alive in Christ, and free in the Spirit.

It's all about Jesus!

Hello floatingaxe,

I take it that what you are saying here is that since you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit that you have more power to comprehend what the Spirit is saying to you. So therefore if the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart then what is spoken to your heart over rides what the written word says.

Am I off base to think that you believe that the letter of the law is the written word of God? And am I off base to think that you believe the Spirit of the law is what the Holy Spirit speaks unto one's heart? And that the only thing that matters is Jesus and nothing else?

Please clarify your position for me if you can as I am unclear as to what you are really saying or not saying here.

OC

God wants us to be real people living in our own respective cultures. Paul was speaking to particular churches about particular difficulties. Cultural!

But floatingaxe I did not ask you that as you totally did not answer not one of my questions. So I will try again here.

OC

She can't answer your questions because she doesn't know the answers.

The way she flip flops on most issues, one would think she is John Kerry.

Since when did 'I take it' questions have to be responded to? Hey, FA, only legaly must you respond!

Disgusting.

I believe firehill that I was having a legitimate conversation with floatingaxe what have you become her lawyer makes me asks what are you hiding? I mean what what kind of a discussion can you expect to have without questions and answers being asked and answeres? It is really funny that you are advising floatingaxe that she doesn't have to answer this isn't a trial here. There is no reason why floatingaxe cannot answer the questions I have asked by not answering them it makes me think that she is afraid of what she believes doctrinally and want be accepted if she does answers. Even if she has a unique way of seeing things doctrinally then if she really believes it she ought to stand up for it and not be ashamed of it.

But asking question and desire answers is not "disgusting" it is how we learn and helps learning from where others are coming from better.

OC

[Vickilynn]

My goodness. What is this thread about again.

Shalom,

It's about hair length and discussing hair length in a gracious way even if we disagree.

Mine is 6 cm long.

Shalom Floating Axe,

There were 2 times that my hair was shorter than that.

2 years ago, the chemotherapy treatment made my hair fall out in handfuls, so the hospital staff on the Bone Marroe Transplant Unit shaved my head. I remained bald for about a year.

Then about 6 months after my hair started growing back, I shaved it all off on purpose to stand with my sister in the L-rd whose cancer had come back and she had to undergo chemo again. I shaved it to encourage her.

So, I had you beat on the length.