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becauseHElives
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Should a woman wear a head covering when praying based on 1 Cor. 11?
the scriptures says yes a woman should wear a covering....
According to the Apostle Paul the Church has no other custom than the covering of the head when a woman prays or prophesies.
History of the Christian headcovering
1 Corinthians 11:4-16 contains the only reference in the New Testament to a headcovering for women and to an absence of a headcovering for men. Various early Church Fathers, such as Hermas[1], Clement of Alexandria[2] and Tertullian[3] also mentioned women's headcoverings. Early Christian art shows women wearing headcoverings.[4]
Both at that time and through the ensuing centuries, women usually wore a headcovering in public, as they still do in some Middle Eastern countries. But during the 1900s, the practice of headcovering gradually disappeared from many churches, which dropped their requirement that women cover their heads during worship services.
In Protestant churches
Among the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's wife, Katherine, wore a headcovering and John Knox and John Calvin both called for women to wear headcoverings.[5],[6], [7] Commentators such as Matthew Henry, A. R. Fausset and A. T. Robertson also wrote that women should wear headcoverings.
Reasons for the headcovering
Those who practice headcovering call attention to St. Paul's appeal to universal principles in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, arguing that since the passage mentions “every man” and “every woman,” as well as the universal order of creation, this passage must apply to all Christians in all ages and of all cultures. They hold that the Bible is not merely referring to hair, long hair, or submission, but rather a literal cloth headcovering. They support this understanding from the original Greek, which uses two different words: one meaning covering, referring to the woman's head, i.e., her husband, and the other meaning veiling, referring to a literal cloth covering. Corinthians 11:6 is also cited to refute the notion that the headcovering intended by Paul is merely long hair, ("For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to eb shorn or shaven, let her be covered.") because it would be akin to saying "If a woman has short hair, let her hair be cut short."
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Carol Swenson
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The Corinthian women who appeared in the assembly without the head-covering were actually putting themselves on the low level of the temple prostitutes. The prostitutes wore their hair very short, and they did not wear a head-covering in public. Their hairstyle and manner announced to others just what they were and what they were offering. “If you are going to abandon the covering,” wrote Paul, “then why not go all the way and cut your hair?”
In Jewish law, a woman proved guilty of adultery had her hair cut off (Num. 5:11-31). Paul used two different words in 1 Corinthians 11:5-6: shaved means exactly that, all the hair shaved off; shorn means “cut short.” Either one would be a disgrace to a woman.
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Eden
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1 Corinthians 11:3-5 (KJV)
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
Eden here:
As long as I have been a Christian I have read these 3 verses, but I may have missed their correct meaning.
Note first of all in v.3 that the HEAD of the man is Christ and that the HEAD of the woman is the man.
Then v.4 says that if the man prayed with his own head covered, that the man then dishonored HIS head.
And then v.5 said that if the woman prayed with her head UNcovered, she dishonored HER head.
That is, ntil yesterday when, with the help of another Christian, I suddenly realized that the following.
Who is the man's head? Christ.
And who is the woman's head? The man.
Since Christ is the head of man, when the man prays with his OWN head covered, then the man dishonors his head which is....Christ! Because by covering his own head the man is symbolically saying that Christ is NOT his head: the man DISHONORS HIS HEAD, which is Christ!
Likewise the woman, when the woman prays with her OWN head UNcovered, then the womman dishonors HER head which is ... the man! Because by UNcovering her own head the woman is symbolically saying that the man is NOT her head: the womman DISHONORS HER HEAD, which is the man!
Let me repeat v.3:
1 Corinthians 11
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
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WildB
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I believe that a womans hair is her covering.
A woman should have long hair, unless it interferes with the plow.(her chosen profession)
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Kindgo
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Should a woman wear a head covering when praying based on 1 Cor. 11?
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Kindgo
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