And what about head coverings? Was Paul there stating a doctrine of the church?
Or was Paul actually merely expounding on the operation of love in the church, refining details as to how that love ought to work?
If the latter is true, that Paul was actually merely expounding on the operation of love in the church, refining details as to how that love ought to work, then, was Paul telling us that all of the churches in any age should require that no woman teach in the church and that any woman who prays in the church must wear a head covering?
Or, would that inflexibility of itself cause those things to at times violate the very principle of love that Paul was teaching?
1 Timothy 2:12 "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
1 Corinthians 11:5-6 "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."
Subjects such as these demonstrate our spiritual balance and show how well we have captured the pulse of the love that is God's.
Or was Paul actually merely expounding on the operation of love in the church, refining details as to how that love ought to work?
If the latter is true, that Paul was actually merely expounding on the operation of love in the church, refining details as to how that love ought to work, then, was Paul telling us that all of the churches in any age should require that no woman teach in the church and that any woman who prays in the church must wear a head covering?
Or, would that inflexibility of itself cause those things to at times violate the very principle of love that Paul was teaching?
1 Timothy 2:12 "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
1 Corinthians 11:5-6 "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."
Subjects such as these demonstrate our spiritual balance and show how well we have captured the pulse of the love that is God's.