To Cover or Not to Cover ?

[GoldenEagle]

 

@ Golden Eagle, yes, I am still insisting that even though those letters were addressing real churches with real issues, the same principles apply today.  If you have a church today where women have short hair and men have long hair, the exact same teachings apply.  As to some being of Paul and some of Appolos, how does that pertain to us today?  Some are of Calvin, some are of Luther, some are of Wesley, etc.  This is either the Word of God or it is not.  If it is just a bunch of letters from a traveling Apostle to churches, then none of it can be said to be for us today. 

agreed. the passage begins and ends :"

2 I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you.3 But I want you to realize that .....  

 

16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God."

 

Paul wasn't bringing up the holding of a tradition as if he implemented something new. He said he passed them from his traditions of being a life long Jew. We could say that he asks for gentiles to "realize" the reasoning for a tradition then begins to explain. Or we can say that he asks jewish converts to "realize" the meaning of a tradition they've been practicing and asks to continue to practice. 

He ends by saying that this tradition or belief will not be debated through any church that identifies itself as a church of God - past and present seem to be included.Seems rather clear.

 

Men in my circle look presentable by having a nice short haircut. Women have longer hair. We don't get into the inches and who crossed the line. But we're not going to smile upon and embrace a male having shoulder length hair.

 

Interesting. So if a guy comes into your church having shoulder length hair he will be shunned? Please clarify.

If this is the case how does it keep in the spirit of passages like:

Matt 22:37-40

³⁷ And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹ And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

God bless,

GE

 

[GoldenEagle]

After reading this thread the question comes to mind is that if this is not an issue of cultural context then how did Jesus wear His hair?  Was it long or was it in a brush cut or perhaps a "do" like Elvis wore?  And what about His clothing?  Do you think perhaps He wore jeans and a t-shirt with a blazer or perhaps he wore a full suit with a vest and tie, mabe even a bow tie?  mmm....curious minds want to know! 

 

Jesus would have worn what customary to his day. An inner and outer tunic.

He probably wasn't 6 foot 1, blond, and blue eyed either...

[Fez]

Closed for review, we have seen this subject beaten to death on a regular basis.