15/09/2007

  • Addendum to "Transferring"

    Headcoverings (last Sunday's sermon at CLC) and hair length

    My belief:

    11.  1.Corinthians 11:1-16 gives the Scriptural warrant and hence perpetual command for women to wear headcoverings during worship.   Just as with the claimed abrogation of infants from the Covenant (and covenant signs and seals), there is no Scriptural abrogation of women wearing headcoverings.  

    On short hair on women, I admit that I am confused on verse 6 since I don't know what Paul is saying in verse 6 or with what mood (sarcasm, situational self-contradiction on the shaver's part, etc.) he's saying it.  Not sure if God is saying short hair on women is allowed or not.   I am not worried about it since one can still be saved regardless of hair length and headcovering.

Comments (2)

  • I say "amen" to your last sentence.

  • Actually, my wife came to me a few weeks ago and asked if I thought she should have her head covered during worship.  I was immediately humbled and thankful for her genuine desire to be obedient to God.  We bagan to look at this topic and began to evaluate the scripture and some trusted commentary (I tend to go to Grudem and Calvin first).  I thought Josh's sermon (heard via Podcast) was also helpful and we came away agreeing that head coverings are not necesarry for women but that proper cultural symbolism and behavior indicating her condition as a married women was necesarry.  More importantly, her purposeful appearance and behavior as a married Christian women are necesarry.  It is with great caution that I would say that a particular command of scripture is only appropriate to a particular historical or cultural context (I won't attend a church with women as pastors, for example), but there are times when that is true and I think this is one of them.  The underlying purpose of God's command must be considered along with the command. 

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