My confusion is how they came up with this magic hair stuff??? It is totally absurd and unBiblical. Someone is faith may lay hair on a child and yes the act of faith like those in the Bible could cause a miracle to occur. But it would be a rare thing and a simple act of faith not a Bibilical principle.
What's weird is how this is sort of a twisted version of feminism, since men have no long hair, and thus they have no "power?????"
When I need spiritual strength, I ask my husband to pray with me or for me! I don't like this idea that women have some special direct line that all of our godly men have somehow missed out on. We all have the SAME HOLY GHOST, men and women alike!
So, I agree...God honours faith...but I don't think it would have turned out any differently if she had simply laid her hands on her husband rather than her hair. I think it's a little sad, in fact, that she "needed" her hair in order to boost up her faith in God's healing power. At least, that's what it looks like to me. Our obedience to God is what we OWE Him. It doesn't buy us special favors. That reeks of Catholicism and all its methods, madness and mindsets.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Scripture already promises that "the angel of the Lord camps around those who fear the Lord". That's all the promise and all the angelic protection I need. Hence my User Title ........ ~An Angel Stands By Me~
I don't need to be calling on angels when I have the Almighty God of the Universe to call on. Angels are subservient to Him! Hello! I have power with and because of God!
__________________ Smiles & Blessings.... ~Felicity Welsh~ (surname courtesy of Jim Yohe)
Ferd, even if Rachel doesn't exist, the woman still exists. Even if only in the body of RR or R_, she exists, and she exists in any woman who truly buys into all that the RR books teach and imply.
Women (and men) should be taught to obey God, obey His Word, and to put their faith squarely in HIM...not in their own works.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I think she probably does. There are other women who have done similar things in regard to taking their hair down thinking it gives them ESP ....... Extra Spiritual Power and drag with the Almighty.
__________________ Smiles & Blessings.... ~Felicity Welsh~ (surname courtesy of Jim Yohe)
Well, Ferd, for starters, I've not even addressed that comment, so if you can show me where I said I agreed with that belief, I'll discuss it.
NOW.......it is my belief, through study (scripture and others' writings) and sermons, that this is true. Is she and her family MORE protected? I don't know. You don't have to agree, but I think there is a blessing that comes with a woman not cutting her hair (a born-again child of God woman, that is). So, I really don't see me telling a half-truth. But, I'm listening.......
Got scripture? I'm interested.
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