Does Your Church Teach This Doctrine?

[Mrs BHF]

Got this pamphlet recently which gave some scriptures about a woman having long hair as a part of being a Christian.

1Co 11:9-16
(9) Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
(10) For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
(11) Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
(12) For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
(13) Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
(14) Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
(15) But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
(16) But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Does your church hold this doctrine?

[Kimbb]

Uh. I'm not sure what your asking...a woman must have long hair?

I haven't heard of a church with that doctrine anywhere. I do know that the way I learned, is that a woman should have her head covered. Not in the sense that she literally covers her hair, but that her head is covered by man. Your father, husband, brother, pastor.

This is so that you have backup, someone who knows you are not going about acting crazy so if you were to be accused of something you also have someone to defend you.

Verses 9-10 isn't saying that one sex is better then other, but that both are complimentary one to another.

Also verses 14-15 Had to do with the time in Corith, women with short hair were considered prostiutes, and men with long hair were considered the same. So for the Christian culture in Corith, it was just better for men to keep hair short and women keep their hair longer. This was only so that they would not be labled as something they were not. Really today we don't have this theories with hair, dress maybe but not hair, so I don't think that it is really applicable to us today.


Maybe someone else can come in and give more insight

[music-bnatural-smile]

Yeah also I can't go into the holy of holies when I'm on my period LOL

[Kimbb]

Just to clarify. I didn't mean applicable as in it doesn't matter, but that it is a cultural thing of the time in Corith, and not a cultural thing in the USA at least now.

[Duchesse]

Mine does not. The Co-Pastor has a very short hair cut. I have been to churches when I was a child though, that women were encouraged to cover their heads.

[jerseygurl]

As a child growing up in Nigeria, we were taught that a woman should cover her hair while in church and gave that specific passage as the reason. As time went by and different kinds of churches started popping up, the teaching became that it was okay for a woman's hair to be uncovered because her hair is the covering

[Shimmie]

As a child growing up in Nigeria, we were taught that a woman should cover her hair while in church and gave that specific passage as the reason. As time went by and different kinds of churches started popping up, the teaching became that

it was okay for a woman's hair to be uncovered because her hair is the covering
:yep: That's exactly what it means, that her hair covers her head and that it is acceptable as such covering. :yep:

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

Does your church hold this doctrine?



No, short nor long has no effect on a woman's relationship with G-d with us regarding her faith and righteous living. But cutting hair short or shaving it does has religious significance such as dedicating oneself to religious service...nuns, monastic life. You cut to get rid of worldly distractions because their vocation is 24/7 service to G-d through community work and prayer. And habits do cover the head.

Lay-women do cover their hair in service as a sign of respect in ours, still...usually older or very traditional women with the mantilla.

[GV-NA-GI-TLV-GE-I]

Yeah also I can't go into the holy of holies when I'm on my period LOL


Are you orthodox?????? Coptic???

[Mamita]

yep :yep: we are taught that in Holiness women shouldn't have men's haircuts, real short

and men shouldn't have long hair

Basically it's about no confusion, god created male and female and we should not try to look like the other sex, we're taught a difference.

Now of course if ur hair after some time is so dammaged u have to cut it short ok but u're not supposed to keep it that way for fashion.

when i say short i mean rihanna amber rose short, like naked neck haircut


ETA oh and we women cover our heads inside the worship place.