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1 | Should Women Wear Hats? | 1 Cor 11:4 | Tamara Brewington | 203926 | ||
Is the scripture in I Corinthians 11:1-16 to be considered normative for Christians as a moraly indicitive imperative, or is to be considered merely historicaly applicable to Biblical times? And is this, as is widely believed, applicable only to married men and women or does the term aner refer to first men and second husband and does the term gune refer to first woman and second wife? And wouldn't all women have had to cover their heads back then or be considered prostitutes with uncovered heads, or as temple prostitutes as ones with hair cut off? And if that was a moral imperative then for all women because of the heirarchy of headship of the whole church in Christ (because weren't all women under the authority of her father or husband or brother as no woman had her own property and no authority?), why is it not seen as such now(notwithstanding that they used a complete covering of a shawl and not a little bonnet or hat as conventions have changed)? We had a rousing discussion in our church in Bible study and most of the women refused to wear hats. But I did decided to after waiting the week after easter, which my pastor asked me to do so that my wearing a hat would not be confused with an easter hat tradition(his wife always wore a hat until she passed away). He did not press the rest, but told them he had given them the scripture and that he would leave it up to them to be convicted or not because he refused to be in the middle of a big fight between those who felt convicted and those who don't, it just was not going to be a battle he would fight because he had other fights currently running he would prefer to be winning. IN Christ always, Tamara | ||||||
2 | Should Women Wear Hats? | 1 Cor 11:4 | srbaegon | 203999 | ||
Hello Tamara, I will agree with Doc that the passage in question is teaching headship with Paul giving the believers in Corinth the practical example of the headcovering (whatever type is used: hat, shawl, hood, scarf, etc.). A Bible professor I know pointed out once that Christians wore headcoverings for a little over 1900 years. At the beginning of the 20th century Christians changed that norm and now build a case that headcoverings are cultural. The argument is self-defeating. Steve |
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