• Jul. 10, 2007
I Corinthians. Women wear head coverings?

Lately, I realized that a woman in our church has recently taken up wearing head coverings, and while reading my Bible this morning, I came across Paul's concerns for head coverings in I Corinthians.

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church that women should wear head coverings to show submission. But doesn't God care about what's on the inside, not the outside? Aren't we supposed to not trouble ourselves with what others think, but rather what God thinks? If humility is in your heart, why must you represent it to the world?

Later in the same passage, Paul says men should not wear their hair long, but it is a pride to women. [Does this mean women should not have short hair?] He also says the long hair acts as a woman's covering. Does this mean if a woman has long hair, she doesn't need to wear a covering?

Also- Amish/Mennonite women ALWAYS wear head coverings, even if they aren't worshipping God; how come? In I Corinthians, it just says during public worship.

Another thing I noticed was concerning marriage- basically, Paul said it was better to remain celibate and unmarried, if you can stand to do so, to better devote your life to God. I didn't know this- it makes me think differently about marriage. To me, it felt like everybody had to get married one day or another.

In school today I read Socrates' "Apology". It's about how Socrates made the people around him think about deep subjects they didn't want to think about. For this, he was executed, after an eloquent speech where Socrates tried to explain he hadn't done anything wrong, rather that he was investigating things people were ignorant of at the time. Meletus still persuaded the judges to declare him guilty, and then to execute him to death.

One thing I thought that was unfair about Socrates' trial was how people had warned the jury that Socrates was a well-spoken man, and could speak evil and make it sound good. This must've put the jury on guard, and made it alot harder for Socrates to explain his innocence.

I think Socrates gave a very good speech, and that they shouldn't have killed him.

Today I'm going to start a project on a Greek helmet made of Legos. For our arts project this week, we had a choice to make a helmet, greaves, or a shield. I wanted to do a shield, but I couldn't find anything to make it out of, except cardbord, which wouldn't give me the curve a shield has.

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