News you won't see in controlled mainstream media.

You can read my mind now or did God reveal my exact motive to you during your time in prayer? Sorry for the sarcasm but it seemed like it was time for a little tit-for-tat. My motives for this are that you claim to have the only valid interpretation of the words in the Bible and you claim that certain parts should be followed exactly and others should not. I was merely asking what you used as your guide to determine which rules to enforce (within your own life...that is) and which can be tossed aside.

Another word from God? I doubt it since I have studied the Bible. Maybe you are not in contact with the right spirit?

Amazingly, despite my claims to the contrary, your source is telling you that I have not looked at the Bible. However, let's look at Strong's definition of the Greek for the word "ordinance" from 1 Cor 11:2 in the King James.


I think we can throw out 1, 1a, and 1b. If you disagree please step in here.
The question is, which of the other definitions is the right one for this particular passage. As you can tell, I ruled out 1, 1a, and 1b as inapplicable based on the context in which the word was placed. The King James translators also believed those 3 definitions to be inapplicable since they translated the Greek words meaning "to give over" into "ordinance". The women in the church that first used the King James Bible always wore a veil when in the congregation of the church. It is only relatively recently that the Anglican church congregation has parted with this tradition. They also now claim that homosexuality is not a sin.

Back to the questions at hand:

How did you determine that this "ordinance" was really just a tradition with a limited societal/time applicability since Strong's doesn't really clear things up?

Once you determined that the rule was merely a tradition, how did you determine that it was no longer applicable. This is especially true since Christians are to be in the world but not of the world. How do you know that you are not letting the world unduly influence your opinion on this passage (as you believe science has done to me with regard to Genesis)?

Then enlighten me instead of criticizing my ignorance.

Again with the intimation that I am not a Christian. I guess you have more insight into my inner nature than I do myself. I believe I am a Christian but perhaps I am deluding myself that the requirements for being saved were all in Romans.
My concern with the opinions of certain Christian sects is that those sects are trying to influence the education of my grandchildren. They are trying to change the laws so that their version of the natural history of this planet becomes the reigning paradigm despite mounds of evidence contradicting that version. What next? Repeal the First Amendment and establish a state religion? Maybe in the name of "free speech" we should teach alternatives to the Germ Theory of disease or the atomic theory of matter or alternatives to history teaching that the Nazi's attempted to exterminate the Jews. That, in my opinion, is the more noble endeavor, to teach our children that reason and evidence should be used in determining what you believe.

If you believe that I am trying to ease my conscience then you will have to go back to your source to find out what I am easing my conscience about, since I don't have any idea.