The two unchanging principles we are being exhorted about in this passage are the importance of maintaining the clear distinction between men and women in Christ's body and the danger of being cultural revolutionaries in areas that are not in conflict with God's creation principles. The dangers we face today are on the one hand, giving in to those who are openly trying to destroy the God given distinctions between men and women and their respective roles and on the other hand, as we maintain these distinctions, making certain details of how we express these differences into binding absolutes for all believers everywhere. This passage exhorts us to hold the principles firmly while allowing flexibility with how the details can look in different cultures.
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Appearances matter in church Up until the 1950s it was Universal for women to wear hats in church. They still do in all the Presbyterian churches in Scotland . I was surprised at this interpretation which seems largely based on one selective phrase Calvin uses (About men) which is then extrapolated much farther. For Calvin continues, "Paul now maintains from other considerations, that it is unseemly for women to have their heads bare. Nature itself, says he, abhors it. To see a woman shaven is a spectacle that is disgusting and monstrous... Should any one now object, that her hair is enough, as being a natural covering, Paul says that it is not, for it is such a covering as requires another thing to be made use of for covering it." Society and culture today only confuses us because it revolutionizes to raise up women to equality and even superiority over men by dress and appearance. Only a Biblical norm and example will guide us against the rebellious and twisted culture, which Paul is defining to remove contentions. Christians will appear different when Society is out of order.
Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...