21 theses on head coverings for women, March 24, 2025.

The thesis is number one. The question of head coverings in Corinth cannot be handled simplistically.

The Apostle Peter says that there are some things in Paul's letters that are difficult to understand, 2 Peter 316.

So our first task is to come to grips with the fact that his teaching on head coverings is among them.

Some difficult passages are simply difficult.

No one quite knows what a par bar bar is, First Chronicles 2618.

But there are other passages that present difficulties because they seem so clear in themselves,

when detached from the rest of Scripture, and consequently, when taken out of context, they are easy to argue for in a

here's your verse, what's your problem, sort of way. Thus, some Christians think the Bible forbids all oath-taking whatever,

Matthew 534 through 37, when the Bible repeatedly affirms the

propriety of taking oaths. Deuteronomy 613, 1020, Isaiah 65, 16, Hebrews 613, Hebrews 616.

Some Christians insist that Baptizo means immersion and can mean nothing but immersion

when the scripture describes baptism of the Holy Spirit

at Pentecost as a pouring. Acts 21, Acts 21, 16. Some Christians believe that the Sixth

Commandment forbids the taking of any human life whatever, Exodus 2013, when the very next chapter

requires capital punishment, Exodus 2112. But if we want to be all the Bible Christians,

Tota et Solis Sola Scriptura, then we need to look at all of Scripture. And this is very much

necessary when it comes to the subject of head coverings for men and women. Thesis number two,

there were numerous places in the Old Testament where men prayed or prophesied with their heads covered.

Paul says that if a man prays or prophesied with his head covered, he dishonors his head, who is Christ, 1 Corinthians 11, 4, and 7.

We do want to figure this out and obey. But do we have any examples in Scripture of men praying or prophesying with their heads covered?

Well, yes, we do. While the high priest was in the course of his ministry, he was not to uncover his head. Leviticus 2110. See also Leviticus 89, 813, and 106. Ezekiel was told to bind

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