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NASB | 1 Corinthians 11:4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head. |
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Subject: Should Women Wear Hats? |
Bible Note: pooterputter I have not been around all that long myself, but it looks like this lady Tamara is no longer posting, or at least has not posted since a while. I actually found her question quite interesting and went nosing around through this and some other of her posts... Most interesting stuff! I wonder if she is still a member, does anybody know if she is still around? I thought this was pretty darn deep and was also surprised by some of the responses here... The responses to her confused me as it seems she had no interest in thinking that the rather quaint convention of wearing hats was suppossed to be something others should be doing today per say. Rather, it seems that Paul had some theological point? And that that point has something to do with either practices in past history that do not apply today, or with universal practices for all time for all Christians? Very interesting indeed... In answer to you, I think from reading all her posts in this whole long thread that the spiritual idea of headship in Christ between men and women in the church is the spiritual aspect. And how this would work according to her would be that a woman would, because she respects both her husband, and the male leaders in the church, and as a symbol to the angels that she is respecting their authority over her life would wear a hat. And that men would wear thier hair short, or at least shorter than women's. At least that is what I got out of all that she said. But it seems as if nobody quite picked up on that. It seems like that was where she was headed and the whole thread became more about trying to convince her that the concept of wearing a hat was something she was trying to push on others, or that she was mistakenly focusing on as some sort of external practice having no internal value. I see a really exegetical question here and nothing more, but I can't speak for anyone else in here, that is just me. Questions like this one and others she had is the type of thing that make a forum like this one a very valuable resource. At least for me it does. Now my appetite is whet... 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 3:16 peacebestill |