yes sir, I totally agree! another point and as you said, this is only my humble opinion, Jesus is usually portrayed in paintings as a feminine man. Long hair with soft features. Jesus was raised as a carpenter by trade. There were no power tools. the material they worked with was wood and rock. Everything had to be cut and formed by hand with handtools. I believe our Christ was a muscular man used to hard manual labor! just my humble opinion
I absolutely agree with you unless Jesus had been a Nazarite, and I think the first public miracle he performed in Can a kind of settles that question; if the fruit of the grape is forbidden Nazarites it's impossible that Jesus would have performed this miracle in front of His disciples and so show that He despised Father God's instruction...and then there's the raising of the widow's son from Nain and the little daughter of the leader of the synagogue, both of which included very close proximity to the dead and touch in the girl's case..! Thanks for a very good analysis of the question, Brian!
Well, my contribution would be to name John Bunyan, Thomas Watson, Cotton Mather, William Brewster, John Howe, and Richard Baxter. These are all Puritan ministers who probably forgot more bible knowledge than any of us will ever gain . . . . . . and all of them had very long hair. Who are we to argue with their understanding of the subject?
"Male-pattern balding" keeps me out of this conversation. Although I think that there's a lesson to learn from Absalom....
yes sir, I totally agree! another point and as you said, this is only my humble opinion, Jesus is usually portrayed in paintings as a feminine man. Long hair with soft features. Jesus was raised as a carpenter by trade. There were no power tools. the material they worked with was wood and rock. Everything had to be cut and formed by hand with handtools. I believe our Christ was a muscular man used to hard manual labor! just my humble opinion
I absolutely agree with you unless Jesus had been a Nazarite, and I think the first public miracle he performed in Can a kind of settles that question; if the fruit of the grape is forbidden Nazarites it's impossible that Jesus would have performed this miracle in front of His disciples and so show that He despised Father God's instruction...and then there's the raising of the widow's son from Nain and the little daughter of the leader of the synagogue, both of which included very close proximity to the dead and touch in the girl's case..! Thanks for a very good analysis of the question, Brian!
Well, my contribution would be to name John Bunyan, Thomas Watson, Cotton Mather, William Brewster, John Howe, and Richard Baxter. These are all Puritan ministers who probably forgot more bible knowledge than any of us will ever gain . . . . . . and all of them had very long hair. Who are we to argue with their understanding of the subject?