donnA said:
If it were there'd be other churches in the NT we hear this from.
In this same chapter of Scripture (1Cor.11) is described how we should observe the Lord's Supper. Since that instruction is given no where else in the Bible, I suppose we shouldn't observe it. It is just an anomaly of the Corinthian church--only in their culture, right?
It was popular and fashionable to shave thehead, when they did it automatically associated them with the temple prostitutes, people would believe thats who they were.
All of this is: opinion, extra-Biblical, and has no foundation in the Bible. Give me a chapter and verse. My authority is the Bible, not imagination.
Thats right, yet the association was made because of shaving the head, he was telling them not to let it look like they might be temple prostitutes.
Chapter and verse please. Where does he write about temple prostitutes?
I do see where he writes about wearing a covering as a sign of a man's authority over a woman.
When we read scripture one thing we must know is what were the people like who they were writting too, why did they write that, what was going on around them, this makes a big difference when interpeting it. DHK is leaving this out.
I am not leaving anything out.
Unlike others I am not making things up either. Stick to the Bible.
That might be becasue the people he wrote too knew and understood what he meant.
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to right the words that he wrote. Nothing is said about temple prostitutes. This is some imaginative interpretation. It is the same kind of logic that a Catholic uses to prove infant baptism. "We know infants are baptized because the household of the jailer was baptized, and there must have been infants in the household." It is an argument from silence. So is yours. You are reading into the Scriptures things that are not there. It is an argument from silence.
As has been pointed out many times before on this board, wearing a head covering in no way proves or disproves a woman knows and beleives she is under her husbands headship. There are women who cover their heards who are not, it is only a symbol, not proof either way.
1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven,
let her be veiled.
This not only a symbol; it is a command.
It is like the Lord's Supper in the last part of the chapter.
1 Corinthians 11:24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.
--There is an actual piece of bread involved (just as there is a headcovering).
The bread represents the body of Christ; just as the headcovering represents the headship of the man over the woman.
