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1 | So should your wife wear a headcovering? | 1 Pet 3:1 | Morant61 | 124523 | ||
Greetings Joy! May I extend Hank's argument? A cultural arguement should be used only sparingly and where Scripture supports such an interpretation. I believe that 'head coverings' is such an issue. The context of 1 Cor. 11 has to do with impropriety in worship. One of the principles that Paul establishes in 1 Cor. is that one should not do anything that would harm another's faith - such as eating meat to idols. I believe that the section on 'head coverings' is another such issue. No where in Scripture are woman commanded to cover their heads. Yet, this practice was a common Jewish custom. So, Paul seems to simply be saying that women 'should' cover their heads rather than bring disgrace to themselves or their husbands in public. Paul, personally, had no problem with eating meat that had been offered to an idol. However, he urged believers to change their behavior when it might impact others. I believe he is doing the same thing with the 'head covering' issue. So, in the case of 'head coverings', 'meat offered to idols', and even 'circumsicion', there certainly is an element of cultural perspective, not univeral command. There is a difference with the submission issue, since all Christians are commanded to submit to one another. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | 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 | ||||||
3 | So should your wife wear a headcovering? | 1 Pet 3:1 | Morant61 | 124584 | ||
Greetings Hank! Thanks for the response my friend! As I just posted to Joy, the deciding issue for me is the imperative. If something is commanded (or negatively prohibited), it cannot be just a cultural issue. Clearly, homosexuality is one of the sins specifically forbidden in all of Scripture. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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