Pretty soon this is what women in the Church of God Malmite will be wearing.
The Apostle has spoke, AGAIN! You rebellious brawling cantankerous women had better SUBMIT!
A reader of Apostle Malm's blog had this to say about women's hair coverings in church:
The Apostle responds:I, too, agree with Christian…God’s Word is the standard, not a linked article. God’s Word says a woman’s LONG hair IS her covering…1Cor.11:15. I come from a Catholic background and always wore a veil until learning this from God’s Word when God called me in the mid 70s.
God’s word says that if a woman refuses to cover her head she should be shorn. If her hair were her covering, why is she to have her hair shorn for not wearing it? If you have hair you would always be covered and would not need to be shorn; or to be threatened by Paul with being shorn! How many refuse to wear their hair? If they refuse to wear their hair they would already be bald so why the need to shear them? We have been mistaught for a long time and now the tradition means more than the scripture. James
Scripture is in red, Apostle Malm's interpretation is in black:
I Corinthians 11
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her [Lord, ruler] head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. To fail to cover her head while worshipping and praying is a shame to a woman; even as it is a shame to have her head shaved. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: If the woman's hair were her covering; why should she be shorn for not covering her head? If her hair is her covering, than her head is already covered so why should she be shorn? And if the woman have no hair to cover her head: how can she then be shorn? Therefore if a woman refuse to cover her head in worship; she should have her head shorn. but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. If she is ashamed to have her head shorn, then let her cover her head in worship and prayer.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power [a covering]on her head because [as an example for] of the angels. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? A man does not have the glory of long hair; needing to be covered. 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. A woman’s hair is her covering crown of glory, her mantle or veil. Therefore she must humble herself and cover her crown of glory in the presence of her God. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. This instruction is in response to the Jewish practice of men covering their heads in prayer. The question being addressed here is not about women covering their heads while praying; but about men covering their heads while praying. Paul is saying that a man is the head of the woman; and as such is a figure of Christ; while the woman is a figure of the Church and is to be humble herself before her God; by covering her crown of glory in humility when coming before God in prayer or worship.
9 comments:
Does God's law have anything to say about nose or ear hair? I can't find anything.
M.T. Nostrils
This line of Pauline reasoning is typical of how twangled up the Apostle can get when he gets on a roll. Interesting the Apostle of the Gentiles is endeavoring yet to impose Jewish standards on women and men. I doubt many Gentile men had brushcuts or gave a rats ass about covering or not covering up while praying in Paul's new Church.
Paul is wont to ramble and get himself messed up with his thinking at times. Like saying the reason "seed" refers to Christ in "And the promise is to you and your seed" is because it doesn't say "seeds" How lame is that//
First of all the original verse meant that the promises to Abraham were to him and his descendents and had nothing to do with "Christ"
Another great case of Paul, who does this hundreds of times, making an OT Scripture mean what it never meant. If Paul was a Pharisee and best pencil in the box, he didn't think like one.
Secondly, "seed" is plural of itself and we know it. Feed my sheeps?
I'd still like to know how and why Paul thought nature taught it is a shame for men to have long hair.
I am tired of these End Time Apostle wannabees with all their silly proclamations! If we have to endure this nonsense, then I want Herbert Armstrong back!
Will someone PLEASE raise him from the dead!!?!!?
Who died and left these nimnuls God as God is God anyway?! Only the original is ACCEPTABLE!!!!
Michael..sincere question.
How would you explain in what way, "doesn't even nature tell you it is a shame for a man to have long hair." ??? What was the Apostle Paul thinking of that convinced him that nature was on his side in sending the message that short hair was more manly??
Thanks
Got it! People need to show proper respect when they show up on Saturday at a smelly rented beer hall in the slums! And, to be sure to dress up in their homes when they sit down at their radio or TV to watch their splinter-leader's broadcast!
Boy, I sure am glad to be able to attend a Christ-centered church in which one's attitude and the content of character is more important than the whitewash on one's personal sepulchre! I've never even seen our lead pastor in a suit and tie! Most of the time, he wears his Levis and a nice golf shirt to preach in.
BB
Ok BB, but what about his nose and ear hairs? ;-)
Bob,
Even though he's preaching to you out of a Bible that can't possible be true, and that no Christian wants to admit was arbitrarily assembled from manuscripts of dubious origins by individuals of suspect motivations?
Steve: I trim mine. Have for years.
Baywolfe: Hey, you just stated what I used to believe! But, there is an awful lot of history archaeology, and science out there, and it doesn't seem to be quite as binary or polarized as I once believed. About ten years ago, I has set out to totally obliterate the entire basis for Christianity, and by extension, every other religion. I was once cocksure that I had accomplished this, but it's something that you really can't do. There's always just too much reasonable doubt floating around, too much that is unknown, and too much that is subject to interpretation. The more one reads, the more questions occur. Faith not only exists in spirituality, it also exists in science.
BB
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