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108) 1Cor 11:3 . . But I would have you know, that the head of every man
is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is
God.
It never seems to fail that somebody will actually attempt to refute Paul's
statement by quoting another of his own statements.
"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were
baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ
Jesus." (Gal 3:26-28)
(chuckle) Paul pitted against Paul; the clash of the titans, only in this event,
both titans are one and the same titan. Yes, both genders are one in Christ;
but then Jesus and God are one also, yet there is a hierarchy in the Divinity
because "the head of Christ is God"
109) 1Cor 11:4-5a . . Every man who prays or prophesies with his head
covered disrespects his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies
with her head uncovered disrespects her head
That's a little tricky seeing as how the word "head" can refer to somebody's
skull, and it can also refer to somebody's superior. So to clarify this a bit,
I'm going to revise some of the above a little.
"Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disrespects
Christ. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered
disrespects men."
Christian women aren't required to cover their hair all the time; only
whenever they pray and/or prophesy; especially in the presence of men.
No doubt this chafes a number of women whose heart's ambition and joy is
to demean men and assert their independence, but if they don't want to
cover their hair when praying and/or prophesying out of respect for men,
then they should at least woman-up and do it out of respect for Christ's
wishes.
†. John 14:15 . . If you love me, you will comply with what I command.
†. John 14:21 . .Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one
who loves me.
†. John 14:23-24 . . If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching . . He who
does not love me will not obey my teaching.
†. John 15:14 . .You are my friends if you do as I wish.
110) 1Cor 11:5b-6a . . it is just as though her head were shorn. If a woman
does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off;
In other words: if Christian women want to be treated equal to Christian
men, then they should go all out to imitate Christian men by first of all
getting themselves a man's haircut, and leave their hair short all the time
like a masculine lesbian; viz: a butch a.k.a. a dyke.
111) 1Cor 11:6b . . If it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or
shaved off, she should cover her head.
Okay then: if Christian women would be somewhat embarrassed to show up
in church looking like a man and/or a dyke, then then they have only one
other option; and that's to show up in church looking like women. But in
order to retain their femininity whenever they pray and/or prophesy; they
are simply going to have to cover their hair with something or heaven will
have no choice but to assume the worst about them.
112) 1Cor 11:7-10 . . A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the
image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man did not
come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for
woman, but woman for man. For this reason, and because of the angels, the
woman ought to have a token of authority on her head.
The koiné Greek word translated "angels" is aggelos (ang'-el-os) which is a
nondescript word that just simply indicates a messenger. In other words;
aggelos doesn't always indicate a celestial being but can just as easily
indicate a human being, for example Matt 11:10, Luke 7:24, Luke 9:52, and
Jas 2:25.
The identity of the "angels" in 1Cor 11:10 is probably best understood as not
the holy angels of Heaven, but rather the angels of Rev 2:1-3:22; which
aren't spirit beings, but rather, human beings; in other words: church
supervisors; viz: the pastors. In other words: a woman praying and/or
prophesying with her hair exposed is an arrogant way of telling the pastor
that he's no better than she is; which of course displays an insolent attitude
towards the hierarchy that humanity's maker established in the very
beginning.
The wording of Gen 1:26-28 suggests that women were created in the image
of God; they actually weren't; no, according to Paul, they were created in
Adam's image. Where Adam was created directly from dust in the image and
glory of God; Eve wasn't, no she was manufactured not from dust, but from
the organic tissues of an already existing man (Gen 2:21-13). So then, since
Eve was, organically, Adam's first child, then all women, including the Lord's
mom, are subordinate to men due to the principle of primogeniture.
So then, contrary to feminist humanism's rabid protests, women will never
be equal to men in the natural order of things. No, they will always be
daddy's little girl. Ergo: women aren't from Venus after all; no, they're
actually the progeny of Mars.
(Kelly Ripa once made the remark that guys should always pay the
restaurant tab for their dates because women are the ones who have the
babies. Well, my question is, who gave birth to Eve? Since women owe their
existence to Adam, then maybe they should be the ones paying the tab.)
Anyway, what this boils down to is that hair coverings are not costumes or
uniforms; but rather: an indication that the covered Christian women
accepts that she owes their existence to a man, and that women were not
created to be served by men, nor were they created equal to men, nor were
they directly created in the image of God as men were; but they were
created from a man, after the man, in the image of a man, and for the
express purpose of supporting a man. (Gen 2:18-23, Gen 3:16)
When a Christian woman covers her hair with something while praying
and/or prophesying, she's declaring her subordination not just to men, but
even more importantly to Christ. This is probably a mite difficult for
American women since their culture encourages them to compete with men,
to stand up to men, and assert not only their equality with men; but also
their independence. Subordination to men really chafes some women, even
those piously wearing the Christian label; and really puts their professed
devotion to Christ to the acid test. American Christianettes who accept their
place in the creator's scheme of things are pretty rare.
OBJECTION: You've taken those passages out of their appropriate historical
context. In no way are Christian women of today required to cover their hair
in church; nor are Christian women subordinate to Christian men in any
way. That was a mandate given to a particular people in a particular place in
a particular time. And what about Paul's comment : "But if any man seem to
be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God" (1Cor
11:16)
RESPONSE: The "custom" Paul spoke of was the practice of heathen women
praying and/or prophesying with their hair exposed in some of the Roman
world's pagan religions. And in point of fact, some of those heathen women
were actually cult prostitutes.
Basically what Paul is saying is that if the pastors of the Christian churches
in Corinth were to allow their Christian women to pray and/or prophecy in
church with their hair exposed, everybody would have to assume they were
immoral. And not only that, but none of the rest of the Christian churches in
the Roman empire were allowing their women to pray and/or prophecy with
exposed hair, and none of the synagogues were allowing their women to do
it either. So; had the Christian churches at Corinth allowed their women to
pray and/or prophecy with their hair exposed; they would have not only
been the exceptions; but also the odd balls and people would quite naturally
begin to wonder what was the matter with supposed followers of Christ
acting like that.
†. 1Cor 11:13 . . Judge in yourselves: is it proper that a woman pray unto
God uncovered?
The answer of course is NO; it isn't proper-- it's insolent, it's inappropriate,
it's disrespectful; and it's conduct unbecoming for women professing to be
followers of Christ and worshippers of mankind's creator. Christian women
ought not to be telling the world they're equal to men, or that they're cult
prostitutes; no; they ought to be telling the world that because of Christ;
they're different; and their hair coverings-- whether a simple scarf or a
stylish hijab --have a pretty amazing story of their own to tell that goes all
the way back to the opening chapters of Genesis.
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