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Those who know the scripture know that all men are sinners. To deny this is foolish. But there is a remedy. That's the good news. The term 'gospel' means 'good news'.
But what is the good news? What was Peter's advice to the crowd in Acts 2?
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37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
38Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Repent means to turn away from sin. Is it repentant to deny that a sin is a sin? A literal reading of the passage in Corinthians shows that women praying or prophesying with their hair uncovered is a shameful sin. I'll wager that women in your church have fine looking hair because they are showing it off. They are not ashamed to show their hair yet claim to be literal followers of the Word.

Seems to me like they are unrepentant sinners and their spiritual leader is also an unrepentant sinner because he won't point it out to them.

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Try it again, assuming God is real. Try it again assuming the bible is a blessed gift given for our benefit. Doesn't work so well, does it?

It doesn't work for any example of truthful writing. There's just no benefit in telling oneself a lie.
Yet you still tell yourself the lie that those women are not sinning despite your supposed adherence to a literal reading of the Word of God.
Sinning, eh? Well you chose a poor text from which to base your argument. (Or whoever advised you did.)

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1Cor.11
[1] Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
[2] Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
[3] But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
[4] Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
[5] But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
[6] For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
[7] For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
[8] For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
[9] Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
[10] For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
[11] Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
[12] For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of god.
[13] Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
[14] Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
[15] But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
[16] But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
You seem to be contentious. Oops - there went the custom!

See, this here text is given exclusively for our good; not for mockers to come along & hassle us. Those writers who are inspired of God tend to think of such details.

And this is just one more text that's to be thrown out anyway if God didn't make the woman for the man.

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