Submission? Or Power and Control?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Esaias

You can repeat your unsubstantiated claims ad nauseum but the facts remain:

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."

Sisters who wear the head covering do not do so because they want an excuse to cut their hair short. But many who refuse to cover their heads do so because they like showing off their "glory".

One of the interesting things I've noticed is that those alive during the time of, and immediately after, the writing of the epistle not only spoke the language that the Epistle was written in, but they also applied it in their church practice and spread this custom throughout the Western world. While they agreed that women should have long hair (they generally didn't demand uncut), they understood the point of the passage to clearly teach that a woman was to wear a head covering. It was a near universal modesty standard for women throughout those centuries and the centuries that followed. It's about modesty.