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Just some additional thoughts about the head covering being for the angels:

Angels are far superior to us in their understanding and their discernment as well as their intellectual capability. It strikes me as odd that creatures who can see everything we do and hear everything we say should find it necessary that we put a piece of cloth on our heads in order to show submission. Surely they know already! And if it seems to throw them into some kind of perplexity if women don't wear cloth on their heads to show submission, what kind of dismay must it cause them when they see women with cloth on their head not being submissive? And this happens all the time!

Again, were there not angels in the Old Testament? Would they not have been unhappy about women not showing submission to their husbands by wearing a head cloth in those days? So why did God not mention it? He seems to have covered much else! And those people would have had the experience with the fallen angels and the Nephilim much more fresh in their minds than we do.

Enoch seems to hint that fallen angels were wildly attracted to the hair of women. Even if this is true, they would see the womens' hair when they bathed or when they went to bed at night! It would be useless to try to cover it just during certain times.

It is not my desire to argue with our dear beloved Paul, and so I just let the matter rest in my daily experience leaving it up to others to make the decision for themselves. This whole thing about having to wear a head covering because you're a woman does cause me to scratch my head, though. It is Paul who tells us that there is neither Jew nor Greek male nor female. If there is no female, why is she being singled out to wear a head covering? Why is circumcision, specifically prescribed by the Lord God himself in the Old Testament, put aside because of the revelation of a new covenant which grants freedom from the Law, but head coverings are instituted in this new covenant for women only?

I guess in my thinking, I just go back to the fact that we all have a fallen nature. It is very easy to do something outward to feign a change in that fallen nature. And so anything outward is really useless. So, it surprises me that an outward symbol would have been required here and for women only.