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[[Image:John Wesley.jpg|thumbnail|left|John Wesley]]If I accept your doctrine that men with long hair (or hair of similar length to former First-Lady Jackie Kennedy) have fallen from grace, then John Wesley has to be included in that category of people that fell from grace.  He had hair longer that Mrs. Kennedy.   
[[Image:John Wesley.jpg|thumbnail|left|John Wesley]]If we accept your doctrine that men with long hair (or hair of similar length to former First-Lady Jackie Kennedy) have fallen from grace, then John Wesley has to be included in that category of people that fell from grace.  He had hair longer that Mrs. Kennedy.   
   
   
Falling from Grace is different than something like not having peace, not having faith, or not having patience.  Falling from Grace is substituting the cross for something else.  Long hair may not be appropriate based on the scriptures, but it does not mean the man has fallen from grace.
Falling from Grace is different than something like not having peace, not having faith, or not having patience.  Falling from Grace is substituting the cross with something else.   
 
Long hair on a man may not be appropriate based on the scriptures, but it does not mean the man has fallen from grace.  In referring to the issue of hair: Paul stated in 1 Cor 11:16
 
:''But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.'' (KJV)
 
:''But if anyone wants to argue about this, we do not have any custom like this, nor do any of God’s churches.'' (ISV)
 
So while short hair may be preferred on a man, it did not seem Paul was overly dogmatic on the issue and certainly does not give it the force of law.


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