All Down Through History

All down through history women wore the covering because those who were born again knew the commandment of God to do so. It has only been since the 1960's that women have removed the covering from their heads, right in line with the beginning of liberal teachings in the church. Many women were not comfortable with not wearing a hat or scarf, they did it because it was tradition, sadly not because God commanded it. Because they did it out of tradition without understanding, it eventually fell away. When we do things without understanding they are not commitments but fashion.

Now we have two generations of people who are used to not doing it and think it is strange and for back in the Bible times as a cultural thing, but they think this because they are no longer processing the Bible in terms of God's commands, but reading into it what they want for their own personal comfort.

Many people who demand that a woman obey her husband, will also negate the covering, but the commands for both are in the same book and even the same chapters of the Bible. Why do they think the covering was for "back then", when they demand obedience to the other things in those same passages?

1 Corinthians 11:1-16
"1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.
5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.
6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or [g]her head shaved, let her cover [h]her head.
7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.
10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God."

If we are to say that the covering was for back in the Bible days then we must also say that the pecking order for leadership was also. God did not write about fashion, He wrote about truth. Do you believe Him or not?

Paul taught here in verse 16, that this has been the command from the beginning of the church and all the churches practiced it. There are some who have tried to change the wording to "we have no such custom", which is in the KJV, but is inaccurate according to the original languages.

It would make no sense for Paul to go on and on about the head covering and the pecking order for leadership in a passage and at the end, obliterate all that he said with one sentence, "but we don't do this."

God spoke of modesty in women too in His Word but gives no specific clothing style to follow, but he does give very specific direction for the head covering.