Questions & Answers
Questions 408 (COD Page 1167)
Why is it that we make so much of a big issue of women’s dress (Oh, oh, I’m getting it on this one, ain’t I?)–big issue of women’s dressing and cutting of hair, and do...nothing said about the hair of the man or the way he dresses?
108 Well, sister, I’m going to agree with you one thing. First place, the Bible said that a man should not have long hair. And if he had long hair, I’d tell him, just the same as I tell you. He’s wrong. But most men, lot of them’s like me, don’t have any at all. But most men cut their hair, look like men. And now, if they didn’t do it, they’d be told not to do so, to leave their hair grow out like a woman’s hair. You’ll get all of this in the marriage and divorce vows and things when we preach on it. The big issue such of man’s...or woman’s dressing...
109 Now, a man, the first place, a man’s body is not a temptation like a woman. Now, man, he’s big, old, hairy legs, knockkneed, pot-tummied, and everything, he’s a horrible looking mess; and there’s nothing about him for temptation. And I think he looks the “gaumiest” looking sight to see these man come down the road, young or old, with a pair of these bikinies on, ever what it is, you know, walking down the road. I think that’s the dirtiest looking sight I ever looked at. That’s right. I think he–he don’t know what side of the race he belongs on (see? That’s right!), a man that’d do a thing like that.
110 And you know what? I just heard a few months ago, the American Army’s going to dress that way. Yep! The Army’s coming out next year, or year after next, all in shorts. How big a bunch of sissies can we get?
111 God made a man to look like a man, and act like a man, and dress like a man. He made a woman to do the same, dress like a woman, act like a woman, and be like a woman. About this morning, about...The question come up about man...[Side one of tape ends incompletely and second side begins incompletely–Ed.]...If he wants to...
112 If a woman has got real thin hair, and she wants to wear one of those “rats” or ever what you call it, I think that’s...My wife wears it. It’s a...She says her hair’s thin, and she’s got some kind of a thing about that big around, looks like a great big, oversized biscuit. And she wraps her hair around that and pins the pins in it. And now, the...As far as I’m concerned, that– that don’t bother anything as long as your hair is long.
113 A minister said his wife was–was condemned, because she had a–a tint in her hair. And I found out from a question, that means a paint or a coloring in her hair. I can’t say that’s wrong; I have nothing about it. If she got long hair, that’s all that I can say about it.
114 And now, a man...This person said this morning taking off their hair, putting it back on. Now, this kinda got here too, about a haircut. See?
115 Now, if–if a man doesn’t have hair, and his wife...I’ve heard women say, “Well, if I could just get John...I think he’d look better if he–if he wore a hair piece. What do you think about it, Brother Branham? Is it wrong for him to do it?” No, sir! No, indeedy, it is not wrong, not at all. If he wants to wear
it, that’s fine, no more than wearing false teeth or whatever that come along.
116 By the way, I’ve got three false teeth myself. I wished I didn’t have them. They’re on a wire; it’s always shortening my voice, and cutting my tongue, and everything else, but I have to have them to eat. And if I...When I’m overseas on them outside meetings, I wear a hair piece; not because the looks of it, ’cause you know I’d stand right here if I didn’t have a hair on top of my head or whatever it was. Wouldn’t make me no different; I’m here to represent Jesus Christ. But when I stand out there, about the first night in one of them tropical storms, the next night my throat’s so sore I can’t get out there.
117 So then, if–if it was something I wanted to do it, and felt to do it, I’d do it. Yes, sir! There’s not a thing says not to do it. Not a thing says, sister, that you can’t wear a rat, or switch of hair, or something or another in your...That’s perfectly all right, but let your hair stay long. And man, you cut yours off. What you got, keep it cut. See? Then, that settles that.
118 And woman, you dress like a woman. And man, you dress like a man; don’t try to be a sissy and wear womens clothes. And women, don’t you try to be masculine and wear a man’s clothes, because God don’t want you to do it; the Bible condemns that.
119 But now, about wearing a piece of hair or wearing a hair...Well, what is one of those “rats”? Did I make a mistake awhile ago or is that a “mouse”? It–it’s something–it’s something that a–a woman puts in her hair to make it look more...Ever what it is (see?), there’s nothing wrong with that. Go ahead, it’s all right.