Uncut Hair

[Godsdrummer]

Originally Posted by Esaias

In Acts 15 the apostles did not require modesty in clothing, or lifting holy hands in prayer without wrath or doubting, or fasting, or even baptism for that matter.

Than why are you making it an additional requirement for salvation today, if the apostles did not require it of the Gentiles in Acts 15? It seems pretty clear that they the apostles decided not to lay any more than that which was necessary.

Act 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Where does it stop? Paul states this in writing to the church of Colossae.

Col 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Col 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

I am continually dumbfounded that man tends to revert back to the like mind of the religious leaders of Christ day in their quest for outward definitions of holiness, in the process missing the holiness of the heart.

Paul states in 1 Cor. "If it is a shame", Not it is a shame for a women to be uncovered. That points to cultural relevance not a direct command to all and all time. If it is a shame for a women to be unveiled she might as well shave or shorn her hair, for it is the same thing. So let her cover her self with a veil.
News flash, it is no longer a shame in America for a women to go unveiled. Nor in most parts of the world today. Yet by this same admonition if a Christian travels to parts of the world where veiling is required by society a true Christian woman will put a veil on her head in respect to that society.

And that is what I believe Paul is teaching in Corinth.