Could this really have happened?

Ofcourse Samson could not have been a Nazarite anyway based on his general behavior like ass jawing folk and other violent behavior.Just another example of why it is mythology and not history.

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Do you know what a Nazarite was?

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Read my lips: They did not assiciate Samson's strength with his "birth hair". They associated his strength with his hair, period.

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'splain something to me.I have a 'birth hair'. If I cut that 'birth hair' and it grows back is it no longer the same hair? Well he was no Nazarite either, but stupid primary charcters are an essential plot device in many stories and almost all TV shows.

I totally agree. It is a plot device in a very contrived myth, a pot boiler and cliff hanger. But that was the purpose. To get people to listen you have to make the story interesting, and the story of Samson is one of the better such efforts in the bible.I can see the kids around the campfire now, saying "Tell us the story of Samson and the foxes!" It's a good story, time after time the hero is placed in a position where he id DOOMED, but time after time with God's help he gets out of the crack.

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The story is not about the sweepings that were on the floor, riVeRraT, but rather the hair on his head. It was cut. It grew back out. It was still the very same hair. You making up stuff about "Birth Hair" does not add anything to the story.

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Because one of the things a Nazarite was not supposed to do was cut his hair. Or touch dead things. Or be violent. Just more examples of why the tale is fiction. And you claim you are married.Your wife ever get a haircut and her hair colored? When the hair grows back out, do the roots show the original color? Are you saying that the colored part is physically a different hair than the part showing the original color?When I get a haircut, all the little hair stubbies don't fall out to be reploaced by all new hair. Now granted, that does happen whether you cut your hair or not so it is very unlikekly that Samson had even one of his "Birth Hairs" left when he got his shave and a haircut---two bits.riVeRraT, you are free to believe anything you want, but the tale of Samson is a classic fairytale, just like Jack in the Beanstalk.

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Sorry but that is even funnier than Birth Hair. Yes, killing folk is coming into contact with dead people.

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Why would the Philistines connect Nazarite, a priestly class, with warrior? What was the tradition that Nazarites were powerful?

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Because it is a plot device riVeRraT. It's the same reason that the folk in the movies open the door that the monster is behind, or race in their cars to save someone instead of picking up the phone.All the contradictions are in there because they made the story more interesting. That's all. They take advantage of the audience willing suspension of logic and credibility.

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