tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11407972.post6479350427273713065..comments2023-06-05T09:57:37.394-04:00Comments on Fish and Cans: Head coverings - biblical or cultural?Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07731853888897956775noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11407972.post-60253765002201421352007-09-06T22:10:00.000-04:002007-09-06T22:10:00.000-04:00the more I think about all this Kim, the more I se...the more I think about all this Kim, the more I see links to a whole lot of stuff that isn't right with the church today. I'm still not sure about the head covering thing. I will need to think more about all of this. Thanks for your thoughts, they are helping me broaden my thinking a bit. :)Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07731853888897956775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11407972.post-29465891570742642952007-09-06T17:53:00.000-04:002007-09-06T17:53:00.000-04:00I agree wholeheartedly. And for the same reasons....I agree wholeheartedly. And for the same reasons.<BR/><BR/>I should clarify; he is no longer my pastor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11407972.post-3826901089787809082007-09-06T10:16:00.000-04:002007-09-06T10:16:00.000-04:00I also don't have an easy answer for you on this.K...I also don't have an easy answer for you on this.<BR/><BR/>Kim, I think your pastor needs to consider what "legalistic" really means, because whether this is cultural or not, it is a command to the New Testament church. Keeping it, as long as you do not do it to try to earn favor from God or as a sign of your being better that other believers spiritually, would not be legalistic any more than keeping any of the commands of God would be legalistic. Legalism focuses on the necessity of something for a person to be saved or to make them a super saint, so to speak.Rileysownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212451614350376972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11407972.post-14866134588136026942007-09-06T08:35:00.000-04:002007-09-06T08:35:00.000-04:00I don't have an answer for you, Annette, but I hav...I don't have an answer for you, Annette, but I have asked the same questions myself.<BR/><BR/>Three things stand out to me in the passage:<BR/><BR/>Whether head covering is a cultural tradition or not, it is being discussed in the context of "maintain(ing) the traditions even as I (Paul) delivered them to you."<BR/><BR/>After setting up the argument, (every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short.) Paul says: "Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?"<BR/><BR/>And then, in verse 16: If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.<BR/><BR/>The trail of his thought and the development of his logic seems to be this way:<BR/><BR/>He starts by establishing the fact of the tradition along with his exhortation to maintain it.<BR/><BR/>He gives the positive and negative results of maintaining or rejecting the tradition and then challenges them, having heard the positive and negative, to judge for themselves--a seemingly rhetorical question.<BR/><BR/>He ends by calling non compliance "contentious" and says "we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God."<BR/><BR/>It's almost as if he's saying: Here's the standard in the church today. I want you to maintain it. This is why. You think you have a better way? Well, you're on your own because the rest of the church observes it. . ."<BR/><BR/>Every time I look at this passage I think I should be covering my head at church. I have talked to my pastor, and while he did not forbid me to do it, he basically said it was legalistic and unnecessary and would confuse other people. I'm not so sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com