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Well, you may have heard the Bible said such and such, or you heard this once, but is it really true?

It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown, your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

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And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey, friends, welcome to the line of fire.

This is Michael Brown.

As you are listening to this broadcast, I should be in flight to Israel getting to the land a day before our tour group.

In fact, with a special meeting set up, I hope to be able to tell you more about that in the next couple of days.

A special meeting set up with some Jewish seekers, the first night that I arrive before the tour group arrives.

But if you're listening to this live on Monday, then just pray, pray for grace on travel,

for all to go smoothly for our tour group coming over, and perhaps the future time.

You can join us in the land as well.

All right, so I solicited some questions on Facebook, our Ask Dr. Brown

page, ASKDR Brown, on Facebook. I solicited some questions saying, hey, maybe you've heard

something. I heard this is true, but it's really true. It's really accurate. So I'm going to

answer a lot of these questions today on the broadcast. I just want to do something special. I thought you would find it enjoyable. All right. Johnny asked this. I've heard that there is a Jewish custom that women were not allowed to cut their hair and that that is reflected in 1st

Corinthians 116 is this true I'm not aware of an ancient Jewish custom that

women were not allowed to cut their hair it was normal for women to not cut

their hair it was cultural for women to have long hair. What Paul speaks of in 1st

Corinthians 11, in a woman's hair being her glory, it was not just something in the city of

Corinth that was fairly normal in the ancient world. And even if you think of it to this day,

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