On Women’s Uncut Hair and Power/Authority (by Jay Jones)
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by admin in HMH Articles
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The following article is written by Jay Jones. He is the pastor of The Pentecostals of Kentwood. This revival church in the city of Kentwood, Michigan is filled with passionate men and women of all ages who love God with all their being, and have a deeply genuine love for other people.
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Among those who believe and teach the truth of 1 Corinthians 11 in regards to women maintaining uncut hair, there are some who believe in error about the “power” that is linked to the doctrinal practice.
There should be a baseline of understanding set when approaching this discussion. First and foremost, there is no doctrine of a woman’s hair containing, eliciting, exuding, projecting, etc. any type of miraculous power in this entire chapter.
The word translated “power” (exousia) in this chapter is more accurately translated “a symbol of authority”. It is not to be confused with indwelling, or residing “power” (dynamis) such as is given through the Holy Ghost in Acts 1:8.
In 1 Corinthians 11 the woman’s hair is to be “a symbol of authority on her head”, or a symbol that she is under authority.
Many people have a false perception of this passage of scripture simply because the word in English has been translated as “power”, and they make the error of assuming some type of miraculous power resides in the woman’s hair. This is not true, and is not being taught in this set of verses at all.
From the outset of the chapter, it is clear that Paul is laying out the case for, and the structure of, God’s divine order of authority and submission. When this order of submission is broken, there is a price to pay. Such it was with the angles of God who “left their first estate” (Jude 1:6). This clarifies the reason that a woman should have a symbol of authority on her head “because of the angels”. This phrase does not allude to angels keeping watch over those women who have long, uncut hair, and somehow releasing “power” to them for their obedience or covering which they can then use to perform miracles. Again, the word power here does not allude to miraculous or divine emanation or exertion of power. It is referring to the simple act of portraying that the woman is under her God-ordained “head”… her symbol of authority.
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Anonymous
Apr 29th, 2009
THIS IS SCARY PEOPLE!!! How can you stay in a church that believes such things!!!! Don’t we want truth, Jesus is all the truth we need!!!! This is a cult in every sense of the word!!!!
Anonymous
May 30th, 2009
ok so why is the same exousia used throughout… just starting in Matt. (I put some below) I’m not debating I’m just trying to understand, I agree that it makes sense and the chapter is abut submission however you can’t just say oh well this word simply means this…
Mt 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Mt 9:8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
Mt 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Mt 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Mt 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mt 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Mt 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2009
Act 8:19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Another verse that uses “exousia “, I don’t get the argument that’s all