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1 | long hair or hat | 1 Corinthians | DocTrinsograce | 237878 | ||
Hi, unhappybaptist... Welcome to the forum! Look at the primary theme in 1 Corinthians 11. If you read it carefully, you will see that it is about proper submission to authority. I think that we all get distracted about the hair or hat thing, simply because the fallen human heart doesn't want to deal with it. That causes people to focus on the easier issue of some sort of normative practice. However, when we rightly understand the doctrine in a passage, carefully looking at ourselves as though it were a mirror, the practices necessarily fall into place. This is what is meant by orthodoxy (right teaching) and orthopraxy (right practice). Orthodoxy always gives rise to orthopraxy. Rarely does it happen the other way around! In Him, Doc |
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2 | long hair or hat | 1 Corinthians | justme | 237908 | ||
Hi Doc. I don't understand your answer. I understand what you have said, I think. But Somehow I missed the answer. So should women ware a head covering today ? Thank you for you understanding, my age is showing. justme |
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3 | long hair or hat | 1 Corinthians | DocTrinsograce | 237912 | ||
Dear justme, This practice of women wearing head covering was clearly given rise from the doctrine of 1 Corinthians 11 in a specific cultural and historic context. Orthopraxy must always be rooted in orthodoxy. If the doctrine of right submission is not understood, the heart issues will be bypassed, making any practice worse than worthless. It really doesn't matter if I as a man, remove my hat to go into a church -- or put one on to go into a Synagogue, for that matter -- if I am not in right standing with God; all the practice will do is make some men happy and other men unhappy. That and five bucks will buy you a Starbucks. :-) Let me repeat: Get the doctrine right, then the practice will rightly fall out in a culturally appropriate manner. In Him, Doc |
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