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Old 04-03-2008, 02:59 PM
Connie
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I'm not judging anybody, since I know they do what they do with the intent to obey, but I also don't think this is a matter of Christian liberty so it's really not something to leave up to individuals. Either long hair is the covering Paul puts so much energy into exhorting us to wear, in which case this should be enforced in the churches, or the head should be covered with something additional, in which case THAT should be enforced in the churches. Covering the head IS Paul's command, and he's knocking himself out in this passage telling us why we need to do it. It's no minor thing if he takes fifteen verses to explain it.

If, as I believe, the long hair is merely an example he is using to argue for the additional covering, then the long hair is not a command, the additional covering is, but if, as so many here believe, that long hair IS the covering, then it IS a command and it should be enforced.

Paul is apparently answering some questions the elders of the Corinthian church had about this, as he has been doing about many problems that occurred in that church, and telling the ELDERS what THEY should do. THEY have the responsibility to enforce Paul's command here, but I don't see that this is done in any church where long hair is taken to be the covering. In many churches I've formerly attended there would be some women in the church who believe long hair is the covering and they would therefore have long hair. There might also be a few from an older generation who believed in an additional covering and you would see some hats here and there. I was always a bit fascinated by one middle-aged lady who would wear a pretty broad brimmed hat over her long flowing blond locks. But nobody enforced anything concerning this passage.

Churches that understand the covering to be a shawl or a hat or something else generally DO require it of the women, which is right, since clearly Paul is ORDERING us to obey this.

But generally it is simply ignored. In fact it's regarded as a sort of hot potato. I ran across sermons by a few decidedly nervous pastors who confessed they'd really rather not have to preach on it. One way or another SOMEBODY is going to be mad at them.
 


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