Bible Question: does this verse mean all women should have long hair? or does it mean all women should cover their heads with a hat or scarf while in church? 1 corinthians 11:15 |
Bible Answer: 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 |