As a small gesture towards time and maturity, I felt it appropriate to change an opinion about weave hair. My typical feeling about weave is that your own hair could be styled as nicely as purchased hair. Even when the stories of alopecia or cancer are brought up i look to the spirit of the individual and question vanity.
The importance of image is a personal standard, one that I cannot control or judge. So recently I became interested in sacrifices and offerings and went first to the bible to find:
1 Corinthians 10: 27-33
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?
33 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—33 even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
I thought of how this relates to the topic 'Tonsure' a practice of Hindus offering their hair to Neela Devi, one of many Hindu deities. It is both a ritual custom and ritual cleanse. The hair is then harvested and sold into hair weaving industries.
Of course this hair is only a portion of how hair comes to the heads of those who can afford it and do so. So it leads me to wonder about the exploiters and customers, as it relates to me.
firstly, the exploiters are the temples that sell the hair, and then accompanied by the order of preparation, transport and then retailers. If their God(s) allow and encourage sacrifices like this, then do so as you choose. My God however, is asking for a living sacrifice. Also, man being the head of woman would translate to the Christian as cutting off the man. See:
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Lastly, the customers, if Christian, CAN wear the sacrifices of hair because they were sacrificed to an idol, which is nothing to God. But if the conscience bothers the individual who eats the sacrificed meat, or in this case hair, they should not wear/eat it.
Sometimes, truly it bothers me to cut hair knowing the bible says:
Numbers 6:5
All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord,he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
...but it also says:
Ezekiel 44:20
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.
I dont mind any of the practices now. Tonsuring, shaving, wearing weaves, or never cutting/trimming the hair. The hair as it grows from my own scalp is fine for me.
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