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       Re: Is this the action of a good being?
       By: Kerry Date: January 5, 2015, 7:30 pm
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       [quote author=HereticMouse link=topic=39.msg625#msg625
       date=1420503983]
       Perhaps unsurprisingly. I have a different view on these things
       than you.
       What I was referring to about head covering is the practice in
       Corinth at that time for there to be sexual relations after
       meetings.  A woman would leave her head uncovered if she was
       "available" later.[/quote]
       I'd want to see hard evidence for this.  I agree with it in
       principle however.  Women who decorated their hand and dolled
       themselves up to go to church were often there to try to entice
       men into looking at them.
       [quote]So Paul's instruction that women in corinth should cover
       their heads was not to do with being under authority at
       all.[/quote]I don't think so.  The Jewish idea is that some
       things should be considered special.  A woman's hair was one of
       those things. Only her husband should see it because it was
       considered so special.
       If a woman wasn't married, then she should have been under the
       spiritual authority of her father.  In either case, she
       shouldn't be in church trying to attract men with her hair or
       clothes.   If she had proper spiritual authority of a husband or
       father over her, they wouldn't permit such a thing.  The two are
       connected.
       [quote]This historical context of the writing is well known and
       not new, yet some churches still insist on it. Trad views are
       hard to change, even when the source of them is known and can be
       seen not justify the tradition.[/quote]
       The popular idea today is that there is no difference between
       men and women.   In the ideal state, in the perfected state in
       Heaven, this is true; but we aren't in Heaven yet.  There are
       differences.   There are spiritual differences; and those
       differences are meant to instruct us about how we need others.
       I say a man cannot enter the Kingdom by himself nor can a woman.
       The man by himself is incomplete just as the woman by herself
       is.  Only by merging and becoming one do they become whole and
       complete.
       [quote]its sad to hear of the alec and wendy split.  i hope they
       both find a place of grace and peace in the situation.
       [/quote]What I find sad is that people followed such frauds.  I
       would think he may be better off by the split although it looks
       terrible on the surface.  He is no longer kontowing to the woman
       who enjoys  exerting spiritual authority over a man.  She would
       benefit, I think, by going silent and stop pretending to be a
       prophet.   Were they ever married?  Perhaps in man's terms; but
       I doubt God ever joined them together.
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