Sentences with phrase «women covering their heads»

What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?

i am a buddhist now and feel indifferently about a woman covering her head, though respect the choice to do so, so long as it is a Choice.

I love the picture of a woman covering her head smiling like she's so happy.

After all, how could a liberated woman covering her head and bowing in reverence to her liberated husband be anything else?

A woman covering her head while prophesying also shows she also understands this government.

When a women covers her head in church it has heavenly impact!

Does Islam demand women cover their heads?

Not exact matches

In most of the Arabian Peninsula, which includes the U.A.E. and Kuwait, women wear an abaya — a long dress that covers all of the body except for the hands and is usually paired with a niqab or a hijab, the latter of which covers the head but leaves the face exposed.

In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.

You can't consider the practice of head covering in 1 Corinthians 11 without also thinking about another aspect of the passage that gives modern women like me the heebie - jeebies.

The last thing we need is another «should», and I'm in no way suggesting that women «should» cover their heads.

I may have found it fascinating, but any celebration of head covering has to recognise that, for many women, the practice is a symbol of oppression and spiritual abuse.

Could the Western woman's apparent need to get up early to wash, dry, straighten, curl or lacquer her hair in an attempt to look attractive be just as oppressive as being forced to cover your head?

So if you were picking a woman to try out wearing a head covering, I wouldn't be the obvious choice.

Yet, until recently, head coverings were not uncommon among Christian women.

When I learned the law of head - covering at a Jerusalem seminary for women, I was horrified that I would have to bind up my head upon marriage; all clothing was a concession, and I conceded as little as permissible.

We'll also let 56 year old men marry 6 year old girls and practice male - male relations as often as possible to protect the purity of women before we marry several of them and cover them from head to foot, restrict their movement, disallow legal protection of them, etc..

That is not quite true: Jewish law requires a divorced woman to cover her hair, although a famous rabbi recently wrote that if a divorced woman needs to bare her head for marriage or to earn a living, she may do so.

-- I Corinthians 11:6 «For if a woman does not cover her head (while praying), let her also have her hair cut off»

«While Amish women were considered legalistic for covering their heads in compliance with his instructions in 1 Corinthians 11:5 («Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head»).»

Wars, beheadings, mistreatment of women, hands cut off for stealing, stoning for adultery, lashings for being pictured without a head covering.

Muslim women can reveal who they are without being covered from head to toe and if they can not they can go back to a place where they can.

I know women are supposed to have hats or long hair... «1Cr 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having [his] head covered, dishonoureth his head.»

Should women wear veils or will a little hat or bow suffice as a head covering?

Initially I was resistant because actually, many years ago, before we were at Life Church, my family were part of a denomination where most of the women had to have their head covered.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Most complementarians do not require women to cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5) or to have long hair (1 Corinthians 11:5), or to avoid fine jewelry (1 Timothy 2:9), or to remain entirely silent in the church (1 Corinthians 14:34).

This is akin, perhaps, to Islamic societies forcing women to cover up from head to toe.

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.

So a Musilm American CEO can make women employees wear head covers because it's his religious belief?

«If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.»

Now if that is the way this young woman perceives her own faith — doing the 5x / day prayers, fasting for Ramadan, covering her head, avoiding pork, celebrating holidays — what does she perceive Christianity to be?

Maybe if Islam does take over the world there will be an uprising from the oppressed bur seeing that it hasn't happened yet and that woman allow themselves to be controlled in every way, including being raped beaten and covered from head to toe and not allowed to socialize without male relatives present the question is «Will women destroy Islam from Within?»

«I know it's wrong to cut my hair,» says Balbir Singh, his head covered with a printed black and white cotton scarf - both men and women must cover their hair before entering the gurdwara.

This lady writing this article brings up well that Peter and Paul address roles of women including that they ought to cover their heads, etc..

Some of the women wore head coverings and none of them spoke in church.

(This passage makes it clear, by the way, that it is acceptable for women to pray and prophesy if their heads are covered.)

For example, Jewett notes that 1 Corinthians 11:5 - 6 commands women to cover their heads:

11:11 - 12), where Paul qualifies them, lest this phase of his argument regarding women's head coverings be misunderstood.

The controversial Islamic teaching that women should cover their heads is often viewed as oppressive.

Romans 1:26 - 27 refers to excessive sexual desire and lust and uses «natural» and «unnatural» to refer to customary gender roles, just as those words are used to describe men with long hair and women who cover their heads.

Some complementarians believe it is biblical for women to wear head coverings.

They apply proof - texts to support a paradigm in which women submit to their husbands, stay out of church leadership, and find their ultimate calling in the home as mothers... while ignoring those passages that instruct women to cover their heads when they pray, call their husbands «master,» and function as the property of their fathers and husbands.

I'm sure the last thing Jesus cares about is what hat a woman wears, when the women with the issue of blood went to Jesus to be healed God didn't care about what kind of head covering she had, or if she was a top dressed model for church, Jesus recognized her as a woman with utmost faith that Jesus could heal her.

In Paul's day, numerous symbols were used to signify a woman's subordinate relationship to men, particularly wives to husbands, usually in the form of head coverings.

Justin's perspective here lines up beautifully with the themes of many of the New Testament epistles in which the justification for specific instructions (like head coverings and women remaining silent in church, for example) appear to be rooted in practical considerations regarding love for neighbor, considerations that clearly have a cultural context that may not apply today.

I would never want to imply that women who choose to wear long dresses and cover their heads are frumpy!

Do you really think a woman wishes to wear something black that covers her from head to toe with a small screen for the eyes, when it is 120 degrees outside?

Well, we've finally settled on a cover for my new book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master:

Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head — it is the same as if her head were shaven.