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1 | Woman head covering valid for today? | 1 Cor 11:10 | David W. | 3716 | ||
I came to the Lord in a fundamental non-denominational bible believing church. I believe the bible 100. I also believe if there is anything that I think might be contradictory then it is faulty on my part. Either because I do not have enough knowledge to understand what is said and or enough experience. However, the question I have rises out of my belief that the bible is 100 percent true. The question I have involves 1 Cor. 11:3 through 11:16. Most of what I have read and heard tries to explain away something that from what I read is pretty clear. That a woman should wear a head covering if she is a Christian. Most of what I hear trying to justify not obeying this scripture does not seam to hold water when looking at scripture as a whole. For instance, the argument goes something like this, "The scripture has to be read in context of the time and this one was good for that time within the context of the culture. In other words, it is cultural and does not apply to today." If this is true, then I can also apply this same logic to many other doctrines that we as Christians hold dear. It also means that there is no scripture that could not be made suspect if we try to use the culture of the time to interpret it, instead of letting it speak for itself. I admit I don't understand it very clearly. After all, what does wearing a head covering have to do with the angels. However, from what I do understand, it sure seams to be saying woman should wear head coverings if they are not going to be contentious. Paul is after all very forceful in his statement in: 1 Cor. 11:6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.) I don't hear a disclaimer from Paul or any of the other Apostles saying it is only for the people of that day and maybe that culture. I have not read even one argument against that fact that it seams to be saying a woman must have her head covered that could come close to settling this issue. After reading this passage over and over, I have to admit that all the arguments given against it have fallen way short in trying to elevate the doubt that it doesn't say what it is saying. Please be patient with me. I am not trying to be a trouble maker and I most definitely do not lord it over my wife. However, I am truly looking to obey God's word, ALL of it. I also would rather not have to have my wife wearing a head covering. It is a lot easier to go along with those that say it does not say what it seams to say. On the other hand, both my wife and I are very disappointed with all the arguments we have read against these verses teaching that very thing. So if anyone has a real good theological argument against these verses really teaching us to have our woman wear head covering, I would really appreciate knowing about it. At this point, I am almost totally convinced that it is teaching for head coverings. And that the removal of head coverings from society was the church being conformed to the image of the world instead of being conformed to what God tells us to be conformed to. I would really appreciate answers from anyone who has done serious studies done on this that could give me a real reason not to think it teaches to cover the woman's heads. Thank you Dave W. |
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2 | Woman head covering valid for today? | 1 Cor 11:10 | Hank | 3724 | ||
Dear Dave, your Christian humility that so clearly comes through in your question should be the envy of us all who call ourselves Christian. My heart is touched by it. Now, to your question. The clear point the apostle Paul is making in these verses to the church at Corinth embraces a theme far more extensive that wearing or not wearing head covers. In the culture of Corinth the covered head of the woman during worship was a symbol of her subordinate relationship to her husband. The apostle is not laying down an absolute law for women to wear head coverings in all churches for all time. In the Corinthian church of Paul's time, it would have been a sign of a wife's rebellion against her husband's divinely directed role in the marriage relationship for her to show up at a worship service with her head unadorned by a veil or other covering. The issue then is not head coverings per se. The broader issue is obedience to God's commands. In other cultures of Paul's day wearing head coverings or not would have been a moot issue because it held no symbolism for them. The same holds true today. A wife wearing a hat in a church in Chicago may have a good relationship with her husband, but a wife sitting bare-headed in the next pew may have an even better one. In our culture, the hat has no symbolic meaning; it says nothing. But it did to the Corinthians at the time Paul wrote this letter to them. It is the symbolic meaning, not the hat, that Paul is addressing. Hank. | ||||||