A response to Bernard's views on women's hair: Difference between revisions

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 What he never says, anywhere in the passage:
-He never says women may not cut or trim their hair. He never sets a minimum length. He never states that any deliberate reduction in a woman's hair length is sinful. He never says this rule applies "regardless of culture," as Bernard asserts. He never frames this as a creation ordinance that transcends cultural variation.
+#He never says women may not cut or trim their hair.
+#He never sets a minimum length.
+#He never states that any deliberate reduction in a woman's hair length is sinful.
+#He never says this rule applies "regardless of culture," as Bernard asserts.
+#He never frames this as a creation ordinance that transcends cultural variation.
 Bernard's prohibition — "women should not trim it or otherwise seek to shorten it deliberately" — is not in this passage. It cannot be derived from what Paul says without filling in a significant gap with an assumption that Fee's careful exegesis shows the text does not support.