It is true humility he is getting at - and again, I am still stunned that liberals miss this. There are deeper issues that he’s addressing (ones that are still uncomfortable, but necessary - much like Matt’s excellent illustration of getting his computer fixed) about how men and women best relate to each other to bring out the best in each other - based not on selfishness, but what is best for the other. What is amazing here - for the time in which he is writing - is the amazing equality that both men AND WOMEN (sorry for shouting) are participating equally in worship! That’s unheard of! Why don’t the liberals catch that instead of harping about who or who doesn’t have their head covered? Notice too that Paul makes it a point of mutual submission in this passage, even as he speaks to the relationship between husbands and wives or men and women. But I think it still refers to the point Paul is making. Even now, we love to exhibit (through hair styles rather than hats) our own personal exhibition of personal liberty - sometimes with the implication that it’s really “all about me” and not about God. It doesn’t seem as though these particular Corinthians were as passionate about coming to worship the Lord as they were to exhibit their liberty.īob Dylan - of course (would you have expected less) took this the opposite way with his cultural satire of the 1960s in “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat.” There was a time that the church - and the American culture - took the head covering in the complete opposite direction then what Paul is dealing with here, where it became more about the hat on your head then what was inside your head (which Dylan slyly refers to). Obviously there was a lot more going on during the community worship then people coming to be in the presence of the Risen Lord. Isn’t this passage regarding the clash of culture (whatever they may be) with the heart of worship? Paul is speaking to the prevailing issue that faced the Corinthians, but the underlining point is that worship should be in order - and we ourselves should not be the focus of the worship, but God himself. Responding to Matt Kennedy's "Scriptural InfallibiIity and Women in Fancy Hats" NOTE FROM BB: Matt Kennedy is writing a defense of scripture over at Stand Firm (click headline above to see his posting) entitled, "Scriptural Infallibility and Women in Fancy Hats." It's really really good, Below is my first response to his posting and I thought I'd put it up here as well.
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