Didn’t Paul also say that a woman’s hair, if left to grow and not plaited, can serve as a veil in church?
You might be right although I don’t remember that.
> Didn’t Paul also say that a woman’s hair, if left to grow
> and not plaited, can serve as a veil in church?
Read the passage again. If the hair were meant to be the covering of the head, then men would have to shave their heads to pray, because it is a shame for them to pray with their heads covered, as it is a shame for women to pray with their heads uncovered.
People actually used to know what this meant a few generations ago. Even the Catholic Church required women to have their heads covered as recently as 1959. Problem was, they weren’t covering their heads with Godly coverings, but with ridiculous caricatures of men’s hats.
Absolutely not. Please read carefully and logically through the oral precept given to the Corinthians, and written down in 1 Cor. 11:2-15. Applying a little common sense will show you that if the woman does not cover her hair with something down on it, then her hair ought to be cut off.
A great mistake is made in confusing the covering of verse 15 (Gk periboleiou, something thrown about on, a vesture, which the basic function of the hair is for warmth), with the covering in verse 6 (Gk. katakaluptoh, the verb function which is to cover, to veil or hide) which a bonnet or veil serves to do, symbolically. The definition of cover in verse 6 is not the same as the definition for covering in verse 15.
Bible doctrine is clearly opposite to the feminist movement's desire to cast off the subordination of women to church authority vested in the adult males. This is a spiritual fact, not a political issue.
I ask you, is it even good manners for a man to wear his Stetson in the worship service? Ought not a man remove his hat when the American Flag is paraded by him, or when he enters his home? Why? If the ordinances of 1 Cor. 11 are to be negated, let the man be covered (as do the Catholic priests and bishops wrongly) in the worship services, and let the women doff their cover to demonstrate they no longer wish to honor The God's command to them to be covered as a testimony to the angels that they also are under the authority of their Maker.
Didn’t Paul also say that a woman’s hair, if left to grow and not plaited, can serve as a veil in church?