|
Tab Menu 1
| Fellowship Hall The place to go for Fellowship & Fun! |
 |
|
11-04-2010, 11:46 AM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: DC Metro area
Posts: 1,569
|
|
|
Fingernail Commandment
As far as I know there is no doctrine concerning fingernails (other then not painting them), but what if there was?
What doctrine can you come up with, using scripture to determine what a saint should do with their fingernails?
Is trimming them the same as pulling them off?
Is it ok to put small pictures on them, or is that adornment? Are men to keep theirs short, below the end of the finger?
And is a man more spiritual if he files them down, rather than cutting?
What about cuticles? how do they play in to this???
This should be fun 
__________________
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
"You will be hated for my sake-Just remember that it should be for MY sake and not YOURS-
Do NOT act in such a way as to be offensive, and then blame it on me"
Love, God
|
11-04-2010, 01:01 PM
|
 |
mary
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Midwest
Posts: 3,002
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
Deut 21:12Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
This was about captive women being taken as wives. Since Apostolics do not want to be identified with slavery or mourning, and since Apostolic women are never to cut their hair due to the fact that it is a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven (see 1 Cor 11), it is obvious by this verse that they should never cut their nails either.
However, in today's society, long nails are a sign of vanity. Therefore, filing is acceptable, but again, per the verse above, not cutting. Further, since most fake nails are over 1/8" long (past the quick), Apostolic nails on women should be kept to a length below 1/8" in order to avoid worldliness. To distinguish the sexes, men's nails must be kept less than 1/16"; however, 1/16" shall be allowable because it's easier to pick up things with a bit of a nail, and scratching is made easier as well. Therefore, 1/16" or less on a man is considered "functional nail growth" and is therefore acceptable.
__________________
What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
|
11-04-2010, 01:13 PM
|
 |
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 13,829
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
There SHOULD be a doctrine against clipping fingernails during a sermon!!!! 
__________________
"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
|
11-04-2010, 01:39 PM
|
 |
My Family!
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Collierville, TN
Posts: 31,786
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
There should be a scripture about biting fingernails....ugh!
__________________
Master of Science in Applied Disgruntled Religious Theorist Wrangling
PhD in Petulant Tantrum Quelling
Dean of the School of Hard Knocks
|
11-04-2010, 02:32 PM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Southwest, La.
Posts: 917
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
__________________
Rom.8:38,39-For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither heigth nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I AM the VOICE of REASON and SANITY around here! 
I am now on FB and on the AFF's on FB! 
|
11-04-2010, 04:27 PM
|
 |
Love God, Love Your Neighbor
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 7,363
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
I've always been glad that Apostle Paul didn't say - "Everyone knows that women have long fingernails, and men don't." Then we wouldn't be allowed to file and shape our nails.  Long would equal uncut.
|
11-04-2010, 04:37 PM
|
 |
Accepts all friends requests
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 13,609
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pro31:28
As far as I know there is no doctrine concerning fingernails (other then not painting them), but what if there was?
What doctrine can you come up with, using scripture to determine what a saint should do with their fingernails?
Is trimming them the same as pulling them off?
Is it ok to put small pictures on them, or is that adornment? Are men to keep theirs short, below the end of the finger?
And is a man more spiritual if he files them down, rather than cutting?
What about cuticles? how do they play in to this???
This should be fun |
Fingernails are composed of the same protein (keratin) as the hair. Apostolic women must refrain from cutting ALL keratin.
Leviticus 19:28, states that there is to be no "cutting of the flesh" (the outer layer of skin is also keratin). If you're not supposed to cut the keratin on your scalp nor the keratin on your skin, then it's just good Bible to say don't cut any keratin at all. Of course this rather onerous burden is to borne by our wimmin' folk only.
Last edited by pelathais; 11-04-2010 at 04:42 PM.
|
11-04-2010, 04:42 PM
|
|
Accepts all friends requests
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 13,609
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
Quote:
Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
I've always been glad that Apostle Paul didn't say - "Everyone knows that women have long fingernails, and men don't." Then we wouldn't be allowed to file and shape our nails. Long would equal uncut. |
I discern that you have a bad attitude.
|
11-04-2010, 04:56 PM
|
 |
Forever Loved Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 26,537
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
I bit my nails for years. I don't now, but mine grow very fast. I clip and file them.
__________________
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
|
11-04-2010, 05:30 PM
|
 |
Jesus' Name Pentecostal
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: near Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 17,805
|
|
|
Re: Fingernail Commandment
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cindy
I bit my nails for years. I don't now, but mine grow very fast. I clip and file them. |
file them away for future use?
where do you store them?
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 10:09 AM.
| |
Linear Mode
