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1 | So should your wife wear a headcovering? | 1 Pet 3:1 | Hank | 124579 | ||
Tim: That's the way I see it, the same as you, that the head covering passage falls into a 'cultural issues' category, whereas the submission passages do not. But even the 'head covering' passage pertains to, but is ancillary to, the primary teaching, which is that wives ought to submit to their husbands. ..... And I 'amen' your caution that the cultural argument should be used sparingly...very sparingly. As an illustration of the folly of over extending the cultural argument to the point of absurdity, some years ago while a member of a denomination that has turned exceedingly liberal in recent years, I attended a meeting at which the topic under consideration was the admission of practicing homosexuals into the clergy. The man who conducted the meeting was an ordained minister and a seminary professor. I am still numb when I reflect that this man addressed the group for a solid hour during which he attempted to show that the Bible does not really condemn homosexuality today. He played his 'cultural argument' card to the hilt, saying that the reason homosexuality was not looked upon with favor in Bible times was that it made God's people look too much like the pagan nations! I don't think anyone in the audience was particularly impressed with the arguments of this guy who had more degrees after his name than a thermometer. In fact, shortly after listening to this gas bag, about 40 long-time members of the congregation, my wife and I among them, walked out never to return. --Hank | ||||||
2 | So should your wife wear a headcovering? | 1 Pet 3:1 | joyduncan | 124604 | ||
It totally makes sense to me, but I can see how a homosexual could question it. He might ask "What's to say that your headcovering verses are cultural, and my homosexual issues are not? You are!" he might say. Though it would sould ridiculous to us, he might have an argument. I'm going to be thinking about this more and more in my reading of the Word. My biggest problem is the subjectivity - use the cultural argument sparingly - one might say why don't we just use it for gender or sexual issues ??? As I search for black and white, for clear-cut answers, I am reminded of how futile even awesome and convincing apologetics can be - it does, eventually, all come down to faith. |
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