29/06/2025
In unhealthy churches, the standards taught can vary. Some see them as a guideline, some see them as an absolute necessity and some attach salvation to them.
My former pastor once likened women who had cut their hair to a w***e. Here he was teaching on 1 Corinthians 11. A woman in the church had very obviously layered her hair.
"All right, now. "For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn." Now I'm gonna stop right there. Shorn. In other words, you have to go back, here's Corinthians, but you have to go back- what were they doin' in this time? Did they have automobiles? How many believe they had automobiles? How many believe they didn't? Airplanes? No airplanes. They didn't have airplanes, either. So, a lot of things back there just ab-, absolutely came normal. If you saw a shaven woman in Jesus' time, what was this a sign unto the people? She was what? ("A pr******te.") I like the word w***e. A little more stronger. I like to nail it right down. W***e. That's what God calls the Catholic church, she's nothin' but a w***e. Illegitimate children. If you're head was shaven, you were considered a w***e.
"Now, can you imagine, if you've cut your hair, in God's sight, he considers you what? Now if I'm off, if I'm off the Word, raise your hand and say, "Brother Taylor, you're off the Word," and I'll, and I'll get back on it. But so far I'm stayin' on it. I believe I am. I'm usin' the word shaven, that's what it meant. In the sign of the time. Look back in Bible history, some of you need to lay your Bible aside and go get you some Bible history. That's exactly what it meant."
Before this, I had never heard a minister equate a woman today cutting their hair as pr******tes and that God saw them this way. How absurd and a total fabrication! This is a fear and shaming tactic. Don't believe everything you hear a minister say.
