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When I was in India, I used to cover my head with a scarf in Church or basically at any gathering, where we took the Lord's name. This was practiced "mostly" by all women there. When I moved to the US, I didn't see women covering their's heads, doesn't matter which denomination Church I went to. At at some churches, I was looked down upon when I did cover my head. I have asked few pastors this question but no one was able to give me an answer that made sense. So help me out people. Thanks in advance. Blessings 
The bible is clear that God wants women to veil their heads while praying or prophecying. And He does not want men to veil their heads while they pray or probhecy!
God is also clear that women are not to teach men or even speak in the church! But people in our cultrue will not obey the scriptures!
I should have mentioned, I was born and raised in a METHODIST church and I attend one right now too But the Methodist women in India are very very very different than women here, in the US.
But the Methodist women in India are very very very different than women here, in the US.
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Keener, C. S. agrees with you that Paul's writing applies to all people across the timeline and cultural lines. So do I. But so do the cults. And therein lies the problem. The problem is that the cults don't accurately interpret what Paul is writing, his intent in writing what he's writing, exactly who he's writing too, the circumstances involved, etc... and so, even though they agree with us, they draw the wrong conclusions.
Jesus said in Matthew 18 that "If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut if off and cast it from you" and "if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you." Have you ever looked at a woman with lust since becoming a Christian? Then why have you not plucked out your eyes yet?
Obviously, what Jesus said (which the apostles wrote down), Jesus intent, his audience, the circumstances, etc... are important (and in the case of your body very important) in properly interpreting what He was communicating. And guess what, Jesus wasn't telling people to cut themselves to pieces.
If you really believe that the spirit-filled genuinely born again Christian women you see in genuine Christian assemblies here in the U.S. are sinning against God by not walking around with a piece of cloth on their heads, then you have taken the same wrong interpretation of this scripture that many cults and those who fall into legalism do.
Jesus said in Matthew 18 that "If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut if off and cast it from you" and "if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you." Have you ever looked at a woman with lust since becoming a Christian? Then why have you not plucked out your eyes yet?
Obviously, what Jesus said (which the apostles wrote down), Jesus intent, his audience, the circumstances, etc... are important (and in the case of your body very important) in properly interpreting what He was communicating. And guess what, Jesus wasn't telling people to cut themselves to pieces.
If you really believe that the spirit-filled genuinely born again Christian women you see in genuine Christian assemblies here in the U.S. are sinning against God by not walking around with a piece of cloth on their heads, then you have taken the same wrong interpretation of this scripture that many cults and those who fall into legalism do.
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Barnes noted that there is scarcely any passage in the Scriptures which has more exercised the ingenuity of commentators than this verse (e.g. 1 Corinthians 11:10). The various attempts which have been made to explain it may be seen in Pool, Rosenmuller, Bloomfield, etc... Clarke concurred.
Now this is just the type of rare verse that some CCrs love because it allows them to project most anything onto it despite prudence dictating otherwise.
Now this is just the type of rare verse that some CCrs love because it allows them to project most anything onto it despite prudence dictating otherwise.
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I didnt read the thread i may tomorrow but i did glance
and wanted to say the covering had nothing to do with
her looks or appearance or anyones lust at all.
Did anyone mention why Paul tied it in about Angels?
Thats a big key to understanding.
and wanted to say the covering had nothing to do with
her looks or appearance or anyones lust at all.
Did anyone mention why Paul tied it in about Angels?
Thats a big key to understanding.
THANK YOU!
P
Now you see the inevitable course of legalism. From women covering our heads as a sign of submission we are now told we must not teach or even speak in church, and that in spite of the fact that throughout history God has used women as judges as well as prophetesses, including in the church.
Now notice that these same legalists, usually men, who insist that we women must obey a Rabbinic tradition in order to obey God, which Paul clearly states was not the custom of the churches of God, and which you should carefully note was not commanded in the Law of Moses, at the same time these same men who would bind us with these Rabbinic customs will completely ignore what was commanded in the Law of Moses that they bind themselves with the Telfillin shel Rosh and the Telfillin shel Yad!
The whole point of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians was to correct a number of “traditions” that had been introduced to the Christian congregations by the Judaizers. As I pointed out, women were never commanded in the Law of Moses to cover their heads, that was Rabbinic law, and Paul was laying out the tradition, and the justification for it, but pointing out that it was not the custom of Christians.
It’s the same thing he did when he asked them about the custom that had crept in of women not teaching or speaking in the church, which again, was a Rabbinic law, not commanded in the Torah. After laying out the custom Paul asked, “What? Did the Word of God come out from you? Or did it come to you only? If any man think himself a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
In this Paul was admonishing the Corinthians who were teaching these Rabbinic traditions that relegated women to an inferior role (and the justification they used for it) that the Word of the Lord did not come out from them, nor were they privy to things exclusively given to them, but that it was the things which he, Paul, wrote to them that were the commandments of the Lord, not these traditions and customs that some teachers were trying to bind the churches with.
Read the entire letter and you will find that the whole context is Paul’s struggle against these traditions and customs that had no place in the Church of God. Even the Lord’s Supper had become a disgrace the way the Corinthians were observing it, and Paul launches into that immediately after addressing the custom of covering their heads which the Rabbinic Jews practiced, which I repeat was not a commandment of the Torah but was the custom of the ancient world which the Jews adopted and the Rabbis made into law. What was a commandment of the Torah was for men to wear the Telfillin, which I would hazard to guess not one of these men on this thread who are attempting to “teach” us women about how to “obey God” actually practices himself!
So again, think about it, nowhere in the Law were women commanded to cover their heads, or to be silent and not teach. Miriam was a prophetess, Deborah was a judge! And many other women held positions of authority and respect before the Rabbis began to formulate their traditions. The New Testament sets these things right and gives women a place of honor and respect as servants of Christ, in whom “there is neither male nor female.”
In Christ,
Pilgrimer
Now notice that these same legalists, usually men, who insist that we women must obey a Rabbinic tradition in order to obey God, which Paul clearly states was not the custom of the churches of God, and which you should carefully note was not commanded in the Law of Moses, at the same time these same men who would bind us with these Rabbinic customs will completely ignore what was commanded in the Law of Moses that they bind themselves with the Telfillin shel Rosh and the Telfillin shel Yad!
The whole point of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians was to correct a number of “traditions” that had been introduced to the Christian congregations by the Judaizers. As I pointed out, women were never commanded in the Law of Moses to cover their heads, that was Rabbinic law, and Paul was laying out the tradition, and the justification for it, but pointing out that it was not the custom of Christians.
It’s the same thing he did when he asked them about the custom that had crept in of women not teaching or speaking in the church, which again, was a Rabbinic law, not commanded in the Torah. After laying out the custom Paul asked, “What? Did the Word of God come out from you? Or did it come to you only? If any man think himself a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
In this Paul was admonishing the Corinthians who were teaching these Rabbinic traditions that relegated women to an inferior role (and the justification they used for it) that the Word of the Lord did not come out from them, nor were they privy to things exclusively given to them, but that it was the things which he, Paul, wrote to them that were the commandments of the Lord, not these traditions and customs that some teachers were trying to bind the churches with.
Read the entire letter and you will find that the whole context is Paul’s struggle against these traditions and customs that had no place in the Church of God. Even the Lord’s Supper had become a disgrace the way the Corinthians were observing it, and Paul launches into that immediately after addressing the custom of covering their heads which the Rabbinic Jews practiced, which I repeat was not a commandment of the Torah but was the custom of the ancient world which the Jews adopted and the Rabbis made into law. What was a commandment of the Torah was for men to wear the Telfillin, which I would hazard to guess not one of these men on this thread who are attempting to “teach” us women about how to “obey God” actually practices himself!
So again, think about it, nowhere in the Law were women commanded to cover their heads, or to be silent and not teach. Miriam was a prophetess, Deborah was a judge! And many other women held positions of authority and respect before the Rabbis began to formulate their traditions. The New Testament sets these things right and gives women a place of honor and respect as servants of Christ, in whom “there is neither male nor female.”
In Christ,
Pilgrimer
C
It the Rabbis law or the Law of Moses. It is simply the nature who teaches that.
When she cut her hair or he keep long hair, it's against their nature that they are sinning.
I am not condemning anyone but i seems that if man is against his nature or a woman is against her nature, I think they have something wrong with them and may be they are adopting the nature of homosexuality and they even do not know.
Remember the prophecy of Jesus who said that in the last days, the world will be like sodom and Gomorhe.
Paul did not permit women to teach because she sin in the garden of Eden.
Mirriam and Debora were only prophetess and not teaches.
When she cut her hair or he keep long hair, it's against their nature that they are sinning.
I am not condemning anyone but i seems that if man is against his nature or a woman is against her nature, I think they have something wrong with them and may be they are adopting the nature of homosexuality and they even do not know.
Remember the prophecy of Jesus who said that in the last days, the world will be like sodom and Gomorhe.
Paul did not permit women to teach because she sin in the garden of Eden.
Mirriam and Debora were only prophetess and not teaches.
