Wearing a headcovering « A Godly Maiden

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Alana, on May 10th, 2008 at 3:58 PM Said:

I was at a Bible study on Wednesday night, wearing my headcovering, and we happened to be discussing 1 Cor 11. Basically the almost-consensus of the group was that the passage makes them all very uncomfortable, and how they can’t stand the whole headcovering thing. I dont’ think they even REALIZED that I was wearing a “headcovering”. What is it? Just a scarf????

Good for you, I say. And when you feel particularly alone, know that there are many of us “out there” doing the same thing. It’s funny how we never see each other in the parking lots of fast food places….
Lacy, on May 11th, 2008 at 12:25 PM Said:

It is funny that there’s many women who cover, but we never come across each other in town. LOL

Maybe they didn’t realize your scarf was your headcovering.
alana, on May 12th, 2008 at 12:26 PM Said:

I think they were being intentionally obtuse.
akhomeschoolfun, on May 14th, 2008 at 4:31 PM Said:

Great post. It’s amazing the difference in how I’m treated when wearing and not wearing my headcovering in public. You’re right about people being more polite when its worn. I’ve also been asked what religion I was because of it (but not if I was from Pennsylvania, yet ). That’s a great conversation starter to share my faith. I’m the only one at my church who covers which I thought would be awkward at first, but isn’t. There is a small but slowly growing number of covering ladies in our town.
Christie, on May 16th, 2008 at 3:12 PM Said:

Good for you. I only recently started covering, and I have noticed that it does cause more respect and more stares, but you are right it is best to just look back and smile. Good luck to you!
Mrs. Gillet (Katie), on May 17th, 2008 at 10:05 PM Said:

I’ve been taken for [some variety of observantly] Jewish, and Amish, although there was one instance where I was taken for Amish when what I was wearing bore no resemblance at all to what Amish ladies wear. That one was hard not to laugh at. I took the former as quite a compliment, though, because it came from a Jewish gentleman when I was in a fabric shop in Philadelphia (many Jewish-run shops on 4th street, best place around!)
L, on May 30th, 2008 at 2:56 PM Said:

I have noticed that the majority men are respectful, but the majority of young women react in a nasty manner.
Anna, on June 17th, 2008 at 9:01 AM Said:

The Lord has been leaning on me for some time to wear a covering. It was not until last week that I finally submitted to His will and began wearing one. Wow…it has improved my prayer life in a big way! My attitude has changed as well…my patience and love have increased, especially with my husband and children. I have certainly grown closer to the Lord since I have become more obedient in this matter.

Now, why have I been called to do this? I don’t know. No one in my area (that I know of) covers and certainly no one in my church. When I began researching the meaning and purpose of wearing a covering, it seemed to fall in line with the work that the Lord has been doing in my heart over the past several years. Now I know that my role in His kingdom is something to take joy in, not be ashamed of. I am pleased to be a keeper at home and a Titus 2 wife. Though my husband is not a believer, I choose to follow the Lord as far as my duty as a Godly woman and wife. Perhaps by my example, he should come to know and love the Lord.

Bless you Lacy for setting a positive example for your peers!
Miss Jocelyn, on June 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 PM Said:

Hi there Lacy
I thought I would check out your blog… very interesting. We are very conservative, Biblical-worldview Christians and I have never thought about wearing a headcovering. I know that in the Bible women were not to cut off their hair or uncover their head as it was a sign of disgrace. Being raised in this culture, Biblical, or not I’ve never questioned wearing a headcovering as a sign of modesty… and I can definitely see where you’re coming from on this subject. We get stares where ever we go… we have 8 children, girls in skirts, boys in pants, homeschooling… I will talk to mom about the headcovering.

Thanks for this post.

Blessings!
MJ
Anna G, on June 25th, 2008 at 9:01 PM Said:

I love how you say you are just a Christian. I have just started wearing dresses and am thinking about a headcoving too, but I was worried about what to tell people who ask. Thank you are being a birght light for God and so many other woman. I get the looks and questions now just becuase I don’t wear jeans like the other woman around me and my husband tells me I have “made ripples in the water of sin.”

I would love to be penpals with you too. I am in need of good Godly woman friends.
sarajo256, on July 11th, 2008 at 5:47 PM Said:

I am officailly wearing a headcovering and dresses.I just have to find the right headcovering, I am currently wearing a patch I cut out fo an old sheet we had. What do you use?
Jessica B, on July 27th, 2008 at 8:16 PM Said:

Hello Lacy! I am 14 and I am strongly inspired by your words and cares for the Lord. I am also wearing dresses full time and I have just recently been convicted by the Lord to wear a head covering. After visiting your site, I am even more compelled to follow His will. Thank you so much for your (unknown!) help and guidance! God Bless!!
lightandgoodorder, on July 29th, 2008 at 11:07 PM Said:

keep it up, Lacy, and God bless!

Kristin
Katy, on August 12th, 2008 at 12:20 PM Said:

I have always respected and liked women who wear head coverings it’s so lovely.

Katy
A sister in Christ Jesus, on August 15th, 2008 at 1:49 PM Said:

If you do not mind me commenting, I have a few things I would to share with you dear sister.

The “Early Church Fathers” who wrote about cloth headcoverings for women, which the advocated for cloth coverings use as their foundation of proof that a woman’s covering is not exactly what Paul said it was, her long hair, were heretics. I have not found one of these “early church writers” when I looked up their biographies that were truly following the whole Faith of Christ in all doctrines. Actually most were Catholics (Catholics are lost and not Christians) and another was a Gnostic!! and one was a Montanist which were basically early Charasmatics who spoke in jibberish, believed that the church was the one to forgive sins, not God, and they believed in purgatory, they forbade to marry, and this is from wikipedia “The prophets of Montanism did not speak as messengers of God: “Thus saith the Lord,” but rather described themselves as possessed by God, and spoke in his person. “I am the Father, the Word, and the Paraclete,” said Montanus (Didymus, De Trinitate, III, xli); This possession by a spirit, which spoke while the prophet was incapable of resisting, is described by the spirit of Montanus: “Behold the man is like a lyre, and I dart like the plectrum. The man sleeps, and I am awake” (Epiphanius, “Panarion”, xlviii, 4). ” also “Some modern writers have suggested that some of its emphasis on direct, ecstatic personal presence of the Holy Spirit bears resemblance to all forms of Pentecostalism. “It [Montanism] claimed to be a religion of the Holy Spirit and was marked by ecstatic outbursts which it regarded as the only true form of Christianity”. Does this sound like sound men in the faith? Of course not. So why do Anabaptists put these men on pedestal as “Thus saith the early Christians so it MUST be true”? Would they also say the same things about the other doctrines of heresy they pedalled? No, they will play he hypocrite and say see they believed it so it must be true with the cloth covering situation, but when it comes to areas where they believed heresy then they believe of course we shouldn’t believe something because the early Christians did. What unbalanced judgment! When I look at Anabaptist sites they completely praise these early Christian Catholics, Montanists, and Gnostics as men of God whose doctrine we must agree with. Anabaptists are almost as bad as the Catholics who make “Early Church fathers” equal with the Word of God. Christians are supposed to be SOLA SCRIPTURA, governed by the Word alone, not the traditions of men.

Another thing when it comes to this subject is the ignorance of the Greek language and how it works. I have seen over and over the saying “Well if the long hair was THE covering he would have said it was given to her for a “katakalupto”. This shows very little study into the greek language. The word katakalupto is a VERB. katakalupto “to cover up” (kata, intensive), in the Middle Voice, “to cover oneself,” is used in 1 Cor 11:6,7 (RV, “veiled”) this information is taken from http://www.antioch.com.sg/cgi-bin/bible/vines/get_defn.pl?num=0603. The word is not a noun which means “headcovering” is is a verb which just means COVERED, then at the end of the chapter Paul tells us the covering the general verb is referring to and he uses a noun for the word covering. Not a general noun, but a specific noun that means a covering.B1. Cover, Covering [Noun] peribolaion lit. denotes “something thrown around” (peri, “around,” ballo, “to throw”); hence, “a veil, covering,” 1_Cor_11:15 (marg.), or “a mantle around the body, a vesture,” Heb_1:12. See CLOTHING,
VESTURE.

The Word of God is not some hidden code of mystery. The ONLY actual covering that is spoken of here is a woman’s long hair. If you believe it is not then you would have to say that Paul never said what the covering was. A leaf, a lampshade, a baseball cap, all could be possible interpretations if you argue that Paul never named what covering was to be worn. If you argue for a cloth covering, then wouldn’t Paul have said, let it be opaque, let it be only a solid color, let it be fringed, how much it needed to cover ect, does it have to be “a certain style to look distincly Christian (as I have heard people add to the Word of God to say)? Paul does not say these things, but he does most certainly specify what kind of covering we are to have: “15But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: FOR HER HAIR IS GIVEN HER FOR A COVERING”. Do we really think Paul would confuse us by saying a woman needs to have her head covered and her covering is her long hair, if he did not mean it was the covering he was currently speaking about.

If I can be proved wrong by THE WORD OF GOD, I will surely repent and wear a cloth headcovering. I would like to hear a reply from you if you would want to reply.

May the Lord guide you,
A sister in Christ Jesus

I did not mean to have a winking smiley, I guess the symbols used made it put a smiley. Sorry.

Note: I fixed the typo you commented about in this message.
Lacy Rebekah, on August 16th, 2008 at 9:32 PM Said:

Dear Anonymous sister,
Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.

Yes, most of the early Christians did come out of the Catholic church, after they realized the truth and how wrong the Catholic faith and church was. Michael Sattler, former prior in a Catholic monastery, turned from the church of Rome to follow Christ, and was eventually burned at the stake. He was an Anabaptist.

You are absolutely right when you say the Word of God is not some hidden code of mystery, sister! As a matter a fact, you just about need only five things:

1) The Word
2) The Holy Spirit
3) Open eyes
4) An obedient spirit
5) A good dose of common sense

to figure any of it out. I don’t understand any Greek or Hebrew, and as I have an English Bible, I’m not really concerned about all that. But I do know that the hair is not the only actual covering spoken of, or as I pointed out, all Christian men would need to be bald.

But, instead of making a lengthy comment, I have posted a new post with my reply on is the hair the only covering..
http://agodlymaiden.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/is-hair-the-covering/.

Again, thank you for commenting.

~ Lacy
Chris, on August 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 AM Said:

Lacy, you are so pure and true to the Lord. The value of covering has been lost since Edwardian times here in England, it’s so entrancing to see your single-minded vision. Best wishes!
Beautifully Modest, on September 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 PM Said:

I agree with “A sister in Christ Jesus”,
Me and my sisters and mother always wear long dresses..and we recieve the same respect from men in public(holding doors from us and such)….
For you to say that 1 Corinthians 11 is saying that Women are to wear a “Cloth” over their hair…that would be twisting the scriptures…
NO..not all Christian men would need to be bald….Clean shaven yes…. but not bald…
I”m sorry dear..but I believe you are confused….
May God Guide You Always,
~Beautifully Modest~
leftywritey, on September 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 PM Said:

In life, in everything, there is more than one interpretation of even the Bible. Looking in on this conversation as a religious outsider, why can’t everyone have their own beliefs, and if a head covering is ones belief, then do it, and if it’s not your belief, or interpretation, don’t do it. There is no judging, according to your beliefs, because God is the one and only judge.

Although I am not religious in the way of many here, as I’d call myself spiritual, and call nature (which to me, is God) my church, I just can’t see the God I love being anything but accepting of all interpretations. I’m sure that may be an unpopular statement, but we each have our own paths to walk. If we were all supposed to be the same, and think the same, there wouldn’t be a need for so many of us.

Lacy — I love your blog. I love reading about your lifestyle and the animals and it’s refreshing to see a young person with such solid values. : )

Em
A sister in Christ Jesus, on September 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 PM Said:

I would like to clear up that I no longer believe the way I used to. I do not believe that the hair is the covering. I have made a mess by posting my comment, and am begging God’s forgiveness for the people I may have lead astray. It was foolish of me to type my comment, I was very wrong and would like it if the readers would disregard my herectical theory. No one even claimed that the hair was the covering until the 19th/20th century. All throughout history it was common knowledge that it was a cloth veil. Almost all protestant denominations wore headcoverings, at least for church, up until the feminist movement of the 1960s.

1 Cor 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

If hair = the covering, then for a man to have hair would mean he is covered, and for him to obey 1 Cor 11 he would have to not have any hair on his head.

Or some people say that uncut hair only = the covering, well how are you supposed to see the symbol? the headcovering is a symbol, a visible thing. When I walk into a walmart how am I supposed to know who has uncut hair or not. Basically everyone has the same symbol, because a woman might have uncut hair but it looks like short hair which only comes to her shoulders. How is that a symbol when there is no sign. Also, when is uncut, uncut? When is the length of time that makes someone have a covering? What if someone hasn’t cut it in 2-3 years but is not doing it for religious reasons and plans to cut it next year? Is that uncut? If someone got it cut last week and now has decided to stop cutting it for religious reasons, is her hair all of a sudden uncut? It is foolishness to think that. If I see someone on the street and they have trimmed ends, I am going to assume she has cut hair but that would be a wrong judgement according to the theory that as soon as you decide to stop cutting it a wand has been waved over your head and all of a sudden it is uncut and long and now you are supposed to have a symbol that people can see that you are under headship. But how can this be when you can’t tell if someones hair is cut, trimmed, uncut, doesn’t grow, grows and breaks off, or if they just recently decided to not cut it anymore. According to that theory there is no outward symbol where I can look at someone and see the sign and know for sure, but the Bible teaches it is a VISIBLE recognizable sign.

And if just plain long hair (where you still cut it, ect) is the symbol, then that even brings more confusion to my above statement. How is that a sign and symbol where I look at someone and say “They are in God’s order. They are wearing a symbol that shows that. They are in submission to God and man”. You can’t. If just hair is the covering then everyone that isn’t bald has the covering. Then there really is no issue or symbol because everyone has hair. This would also mean that men would have to be bald in order to be uncovered, because if he would have hair then that would mean he would be covered. It is just nonsense.

1 Cor 11:6 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.

If hair = the covering then God would be saying, “If she is not covered, which means she has no hair, then let her ALSO (which means IN ADDITION TO) be shorn (which means having her hair cut short). How can you cut what isn’t there. If her hair is gone then there is nothing left to shear.

Or you could argue that the LONG hair, not the hair only is the covering. Then it would say “If she is not covered, which means she has shorn (cut short hair) hair, then let her ALSO (which means IN ADDITION TO) be shorn. How can you be ALSO what you already are? It does not make sense. That’s like saying take off your jacket when you already have it off. How can you do something you already did?Plus, if it would be just hair (not uncut hair) being the covering then being uncovered would mean she is bald. So if she has no hair on her head how can she also have her hair cut short after she has no hair? It is nonsense. Is God saying if she is uncovered let her also be uncovered? So is God now going to make her disobey Him by having someone cut off her supposed covering when the whole point is to get her to wear the covering. To not wear the headcovering is sin, so is he commanding her to sin? What foolishness is found if you veiw the hair as being the covering!

For more information please go to the links provided at the end of the post above.

Once again I am so sorry. I was not planning on re-commenting on this issue but I believe that the Lord wanted me to make a correction.

May the Lord bless you all,
A sister in Christ Jesus
Lacy Rebekah, on September 25th, 2008 at 3:01 PM Said:

Dear Sister,

Thank you so much for returning and clearing that up! May God be praised that you opened your eyes and returned to the truth!

Hopefully your testimony of returning to the truth will shine as a light for others.

Again, thank you so much for re-commenting on this!!

~ Lacy
Sydney, on September 29th, 2008 at 3:29 PM Said:

Thanks so much for this post! I’ve just started covering my hair during church and during times of my personal devtions with God. Thanks so much for taking the time to pray and to point out so many key point to me!

Sydney
Lacy Rebekah, on October 8th, 2008 at 9:00 PM Said:

Sydney,

I’m so glad this post has been an encouragement to you! You’re very welcome, I really enjoyed discussing it with you. I love questions, it makes me study more!

~ Lacy
Lacy Rebekah, on November 21st, 2008 at 7:59 AM Said:

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~ Lacy

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