Lesson 16 - Attitude (Part 2)

Question 1

1. How is grey hair viewed in Scripture?

Answer 1

It is esteemed and considered beautiful (“a crown of glory”).

Question 2

2. What does the Apostle Paul usually do before dealing with matters of minor importance?

Answer 2

He will first clearly express the grand eternal principle on which his conviction rests.

Question 3

3. Women who did not wear a veil as demanded by Corinthian culture were unintentionally identifying themselves with which two (2) groups of women?

Answer 3

a. Heathen priestesses in local temples

b. Temple prostitutes

Question 4

4. Some people use 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 to argue that if we teach women not to cut their hair, then we must also teach them not to speak in church, since the same word for “shame” is used in both passages. Explain why this is incorrect.

Answer 4

If Paul was teaching this, he would be contradicting himself, since he already stated that women did pray and prophesy in the church (1 Corinthians 11:5).

Question 5

5. What does the Greek word (keiro) mean?

Answer 5

“Cut with shears, remove by cutting.” Hair is “shorn” if it is cut at all.

Question 6

6. First Corinthians 11:10 mentions the phrase “power on her head.” Where does this power come from?

Answer 6

It is not in the woman’s hair itself, but rather in her covenant of submission to God.

Question 7

7. Finish this sentence: “Men and women are equal in rights, but not …”

Answer 7

Equivalent in roles.

Question 8

8. What does the Greek word (kome) mean?

Answer 8

“Uncut” or “let the hair grow.”

Question 9

9. When should a Christian woman wear a veil?

Answer 9

Only when culture demands it of modest women (e.g. In Muslim nations.