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Originally Posted by Captain
• 1Cor11:15 clearly states that “her hair is given to her for a covering.” So no, the wearing of a veil is not biblical. The woman’s hair is her covering. The Bible is clear enough on this as to be beyond further discussion. Reading “her hair is given to her for a covering” and arguing for a veil nonetheless is a “private interpretation.”
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Wrong.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, with hair on his head, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth without hair on her head dshonoureth her head:
for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman have not hair on her head, let her
also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have hair on her head.
So then, hair is NOT the covering being commanded.
If you prefer the covering be "long hair", it becomes even more plain to see:
4 Every man praying or prophesying, with long hair, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with short hair dishonoureth her head: for
that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman have short hair, let her
also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her have long hair.
It is ridiculous to teach that if a woman have short, cut hair, she should ALSO cut her hair short, that if she have short, cut hair it is AS IF her head was shaven.
The statement "her hair is given her for a covering" is the lesson FROM NATURE that corroborates the apostle's command. Otherwise the passage becomes nonsensical.
Your claim ignores not only the plain meaning of the text, but also 1800 years of history. Practically ALL Christians everywhere at every time understood Paul taught that a woman should wear a head covering and a man should not, when praying or prophesying. Only in the last 100 years or so, in the west, did the Christian woman's head covering get abandoned by modernists who had no use for "old, archaic practices that oppress women."