1COR 11:10 ISN'T ABOUT THE FALLEN ANGELS. IT'S ABOUT JUDAIZERS.

Dear in Christ,

 

There are preachers, priests, and pastors who teach that women are instructed to cover their heads (while in churches, 1Cor 11:10, let's ignore for a moment that the literal translation is "power"), lest the so-called fallen angels would get sexually aroused seeing women's foreheads and hair. (They support their views by linking the passage to Gen 6:2).

 

My question is: won't the same fallen angels get sexually aroused if women's heads aren't covered while they are at their homes, places of work or marketplaces? If the fallen angels have this issue only while women are at churches, aren't churches dangerous places for women? What if a heavy wind blows and whatever covering women were using are blown away?

 

THINK: isn't the talk about someone (human beings) who would come to churches? Never ever think that the talk is about men attending the churches getting sexual arousal seeing women's hair or foreheads. The talk needn't be about men or sexual arousal. (I don't know many/any men who will have sexual arousal seeing women's foreheads or hair)

 

The whole trouble with the verse is with the wrong translation of the Greek word "Angelo's"(G38) in Strong's. Though the primary meaning of the word is "angels", there are situations where the word is translated as messenger. In Matt 11:10 and Mar 1:2, the same word is translated as messenger to say that John the Baptist was the messenger sent before the Lord. In Luke 7:24 the same word is used to describe the men John the Baptist sent to Jesus, asking whether the latter was the one to come.

So, 1Cor 11:10 is about some messengers who would come to the church at Corinth, and they would take offense if women's heads aren't covered. Who they could have been? My best guess is that they were Judaizers, who used to spy on the proceedings at churches. 

We read about them in:

Gal 2:4: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to SPY OUT our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Paul's epistles, especially, Galatians, is replete with the narratives about the troubles caused Judaizers, "they of the circumcision" and "false brethren".

 

So, isn't it quite likely that these messengers were spies from Judaizers? I think Paul instructed women to cover their heads to appease these people, so that they won't cause disturbance to the proceedings of the church.

Yes, I could as well be wrong.

In Christ,

Tomsan Kattackal