Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You asked:

Cheryl, do you/your church pray standing? Sitting? Eyes open? Eyes Shut? Bowing? Prostrating?

What has that got to do with the price of rice in China?

Are you/ your church a product of your culture? Does your culture define some of your ‘practice’?

It is “cultural” to have Sunday School, but it follows God’s mandate for all to be allowed to teach one another and to speak in the assembly. Not all cultural things are wrong. But when God forbids them – then they are wrong indeed! What is your point? It is you, is it not, who is making the claim the God has set out a principle of head covering. I didn’t make that claim, you did.

Like it or not, practices change from culture to culture. The issue is maintaining the principle in focus.

This is a category error. A practice is not the same thing as a principle.

A head covering in Corinth was an appropriate way to display the Biblical principle Paul lays down.

If that was so, then why did Paul forbid men to wear the head covering? If the cultural practice was the correct practice that God ordained, then why is there not an acceptance of the practice rather than Paul stating that the practice shames Christ? If this practice shamed Christ, then can it be a good “principle”? Or is it a humanistic cultural tradition that was not to come into the church?