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1Cor.11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.

God set up an order of things, man, on the other hand, thinks he has grown past God's order of thing by societies normals. There have been places in history of mankind where men have violently dominated woman, and in some cultures woman have been the head over the man. But here Paul was not talking about man's standards or a woman standards, nor are these brothers and sisters going to push God's standards upon society.

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

These brothers and sister were under Christ headship, which headship was under God, they had accepted the Christ and chose to worship Christ Father in truth and Spirit, so these standards must be kept for them to be pleasing to God, and not man. Faith is about believing what God has said is good and righteous that He is King and creator and we are his works.

Rom.9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"{Isaiah 29:16; 45:9} 9:21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

In other words, why does it shame a man to have his head covered? We could go into a long line of reasoning, or we could accept that God says it does and who of us would dishonor God as fickle like society that condemns and hates over the latest issue and in a few years find the fruit of the issue has not made things better, but worst. God created man Adam to be the ruler over the earth, and the woman was created at last to help the man in his God given position. Thus, when men or woman get that order backwards its not God's order which has never changes. We can call God unrighteous, not fair, he does not understand, or care, but all that has nothing to do with truth.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

As these brothers and sisters were learning and being adjusted, they must conform to God's standards, not bring God's standards into their world changing them to be popular or fit into a world alienated from God, they must come up to the things above, thinking as God thinks through the mind of Christ.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

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