It is often asserted that Paul was merely writing unto the Christians at Corinth simply and solely to keep them from recoiling from the existing social customs of the day.  In other words, since the worldly women were artificially covering while on the street and in public gathering, the Christian women should not defy this custom by becoming bare-headed to the assemblies of the Church.  We are told that anyone who did not wear a Covering was flaunting her independence and displaying her insubordination before the heathen people.  It is contended that this is the only reason that prompted Paul to pen these regulations.  Many use this type of objection in the discussion of women and the Head Covering.  Lets us reason together carefully and bring this type of objection to the guillotine of truth and behead it with the sword of the Spirit and the Word of God.  A mere superficial reading of the passage will show evidence of the fact that these instructions are found upon a more noble standard than that of a heathen custom.  Paul’s teaching is not from contemporary custom and usages, but rather from permanent principles.  His argument is based upon at least five premises from 1 Corinthians 11:1-16:
 
1. Headship (verse 3); 2. Creation, (verses 8-9); 3. Angels, (verse 10); 4. Nature, (verses 13-14); and  5. Universal practice, (verse 16).   Not one of these reasons derives in force from fads, fancies, and fashions of heathen society.  As surely as these principles are age lasting, just so are the instructions based upon them to continue throughout the Christian age for worship? 
  
    If the Holy Spirit were encouraging the Christian Woman to show her subjection to man in worship solely because of the world looking upon them, then why did God tell the man not to wear the Covering?  It certainly was not to show to the world that the Christian men were conforming to the world custom of the heathen men evincing submission and respect for Jesus Christ.  It was not necessarily the custom for men of the New Testament world in the first century to go bare--headed in public.  This being true, Paul’s, regulation to men were not based upon worldly customs.  This point must not be over looked.  Whatever the basis for the Holy Spirit that taught the women, He taught the opposite for men, and the basis for the teaching concerning one is the basis for the instruction regarding the other.  Therefore, the basis for the instruction regarding the Head Covering for women is not a worldly custom.  It is strikingly strange that Saints who would not think of neglecting the regulations regarding the Head Covering give to men seemingly have no scruples about slighting those given to the women. 
  
    Many brethren, who claim that Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 2-16 was merely binding a custom of the day upon the Corinthian Christians, turn right around and interpret verse 16 to say, we have no such custom.  These brethren who object to the covering have Paul binding a custom on the Churches in verses 2-15 and then in verse 16 say that the Church have no such custom as binding what they say he had bound.  Surely one would not believe that the Holy Spirit would use 15 verses on this subject and then obliterate it.

    It appears that the Apostle had previously given a variety of direction relative to the matter mentioned here, that some had paid strict attention to them, and that others had not but Paul insisted that they Keep the ordinance, as I delivered them to you (1 Corinthians 11:2).