The religious world has a lot of fantasy, and all invented by its leaders. Their practical purpose is none other than to entrap their followers with sophisms and evil beliefs. Let's try to talk about some that come to mind.

Let's start with some Jewish practices and traditions that are used today. Use of kippah, tallit, peyote, etc. There is no biblical mention of its use. But it became a fad and its use has been adopted as a rule by the followers of Judaism. I won't give their meaning, leaving those who don't know to look through the sources that can give you the definitions. Also the daily practices of prayers and candles; hand washing with the systematic practice of running water over them three times; and many other things that I am not aware of, but that is known to the Jewish people. Even evangelicals have adopted some of these practices and introduced them into their celebrations. Judeo-Christian religions have adopted a mix of pseudo-Christian and Jewish practices. This is the case of Messianic Jewish religions, whose women wear a veil when participating in rites in temples and congregations.

By the way, regarding the veil, I think it is a result of the misinterpretation of what Paul says in his epistle to the Corinthian believers. Where he says a woman must not pray with her head uncovered. 1 Corinthians 11:13.

I am going to post the complete text on the subject addressed by the Apostle Paul, in order to show the mistake of those who opt for this practice of wearing the veil.

1 Corinthians 11:10 Therefore a woman ought to have a sign of power on her head, because of the angels. 11 Yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is from the man, so the man is from the woman, but everything is from God. 13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered? 14 Or does not nature itself teach you that it is a dishonor for a man to have long hair? 15 But for a woman to have long hair is honorable to her, because her hair was given her instead of a veil. 16 But if anyone wants to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

The text is not difficult to understand, although for the natural man it is veiled because of the non-compliance with what God says through Solomon in Proverbs 2:1-4.

Paulo is not referring to the use of a fabric veil, but to the woman's hair. And he means that Christian women must not cut their hair, nor even clip it, for that would be as if she had her head naked or bald. This about God.

On one occasion God told us that on Earth we call it hair, but in heaven it is called a veil.

So just replace the word veil with hair, and thus it is possible to improve the understanding of what the Holy Spirit means through the Apostle Paul in this biblical text of his epistle (doctrinal letter) to the Corinthians.

Still remembering what the Lord told us about hair, when He did it using a vase in a prophetic way, He asked a young woman why she had cut her veil. And he said that because she did that, that she would be thrown into outer darkness that day.
It is interesting that what is the main thing required by God, as is the case with the decalogue, the ten commandments, men have relativized, or rejected and neglected their practice and fulfillment. While things that are not even secondary, have been placed as if it were an obligation imposed by God. It is not in vain that the master said that the religious of his time “strained a gnat, but swallowed a camel”. Matthew 23;24.

When we express the need to comply with God's law, there are those who are uncomfortable with this and say that not only that, but that we have to keep 613 laws given to the people of Israel. These ignore what the Holy Spirit says through the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:15 and Colossians 2:14. He speaks of “commandments of ordinances” written in a book, referring to the ordinances written by Moses in a book. These laws were given to the people of Israel, with the intermediation of angels (Acts of the Apostles 7:53), and had a time of validity, having been abolished by Jesus, since they were temporal laws destined for the people of Israel as a people of God, and when he was in his own territory and had a theocratic government.

So that's what Jesus said about his contemporary religious leaders, “they bound heavy burdens and hard to bear, and laid them on men's shoulders; they, however, would not even move them with their finger.” Matthew 23:4.

Guarulhos - São Paulo - Brazil, 02/04/2023

Oli Prestes
Missionary