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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
I was responding to unregistered's comments that it seemed against the Christian faith to require a woman to wear a head covering. It is very clear from 1Cor 11 that if this is your attitude not only is the head covering not required, it is not a custom of either the apostles or the churches of God.
The fellowship in this chapter is for those who wish to honor their head, not for doubtful disputations.
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I could care less whether a woman has head covering. I brought up the issue, and cited 1 Cor 11, to show that people who say, "It's in the Bible" as if that made something requisite to all Christian people at all time often only do so selectively. Perhaps I mis-read Paul but it seemed as if he were prescribing it, yet the LSM-led churches seem to give themselves a pass on Paul's advice, here. Even while they try to mandate Paul's advice, elsewhere.
Secondly, I could care less if a woman teaches. Again, like head-covering, that's her issue with God. If God tells her to teach, or preach, or interpret, or whatever, that's God's word to her. Ultimately she'll stand or fall as the males of the species do: whether they obey and of what manner they do.
Again, I brought up the issue of women teaching, to point out the hypocrisy of groups who act as if they've found a one-size-fits-all prescription for all Christian people at all time, and then promptly (and repeatedly) violate it themselves! Quoting women as authorities, and hoping nobody will notice the contradiction - is their audience so dulled, bleating, "Four legs good two legs bad" over and over again, not to notice that the very thing being imposed upon them is being violated by the imposer?
If Witness Lee had done his homework, he'd never have had to cite Mary McDonough. He could have cited Erasmus (among others), who wrote an excellent treatise in 1511. I've already gone over this in some depth here on this forum. Witness Lee didn't need Mary McDonough to "recover" the Three Parts of Man. But he was a sloppy scholar and used her anyway. Just like Watchman Nee plagiarizing Jessie Penn-Lewis in his "Spiritual Man" - at best, at very best, it's poor scholarship and sloppy investigation; at worst it's craven two-faced hypocrisy. In either event it should be noted.
And if someone like that tells you not to teach, or to cover your head, or not to play electric instruments, or whatever, tell them to go get lost.
Acts 5:29 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than human beings!