Using backstory in the opening pages is one of those sins, they say, and warn that using it thus will render
your ceremonially unclean.
As a eunuch, this person was
ceremonially unclean.
But Piper's response reveals that not even complementarians live by every word of the Bible.Complementarians do not require women to cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5) or to abide by the Levitical Purity Laws that make
them ceremonially unclean during their periods.
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are
ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
Complementarians do not require women to cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5), or remain entirely silent in church (1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 2:12) or abstain from wearing jewelry (1 Peter 3:3), or abide by the Levitical Purity Laws that make
them ceremonially unclean during their periods.
Leviticus teaches us that certain things, certain actions, make us dirty; or what they would call being
ceremonially unclean.
[6] Their work not only made
them ceremonially unclean, but their work also kept them away from the temple for weeks at a time so that they could not be purified.