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Genesis 1:27 | So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male & female He created them.

Joseph Benson, English Methodist (1749–1821) | Genesis 1:27

In his natural, but especially in his moral image, with an habitual conformity of all his powers to the will of God, his understanding clearly discerning, his judgment entirely approving, his will readily choosing, and his affections cordially embracing his chief good; without error in his knowledge, disorder in his passions, or irregularity or inordinancy in his appetites; his senses also being all inlets to wisdom & enjoyment, and all his faculties of body & mind subservient to the glory of God & his own felicity [intense happiness]!

But man being in honour did not abide, but became like the beasts that perish!

Ephesians 5:1-33 | Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us & gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality & all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness, nor foolish talk, nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ & God. ...

What cause we have for thankfulness that this image of God may be restored to our souls, and how earnestly ought we to pray for, and how diligently to seek this most important of all attainments!

The particular history of the woman’s creation is brought in afterward by way of further elucidation, & to introduce the account of the institution of marriage.

Genesis 2:18 | Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 Timothy 2:13-15 | For Adam was formed first, & then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived & fell into transgression. Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, & holiness, w/ self-control.

1 Corinthians 11:1-16 | You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Now I commend you for remembering me in everything & for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, & the head of the woman is man, & the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies w/ his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies w/ her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head. A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image & glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels. In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God w/ her head uncovered? Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

God formed the woman from the man, & caused the whole race of mankind to descend from one original pair, that all the families & nations of men, being made of one blood, & proceeding from one common stock, might know themselves to be brethren, & might love & assist one another to the uttermost of their power: but, alas! what a sad reverse of this do we daily see exemplified before our eyes! ________________________________________________________

Charles John Ellicott, English Theologian (1819–1905) | 1 Corinthians 11:10

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head—The two clauses which compose this verse are, perhaps, the 2 most difficult passages in the NT, and, accordingly, have given rise to an almost endless variety of interpretation. What is meant, first, by the woman having "power on her head?"

There have been many—some of them most fanciful—suggestions that the word for power [exousia] may have crept in instead of some other word by the mistake of some copyist; or that the word used by Paul may have been exiousa—"When she goes out in public;" or two words [ex ousias]—"in accordance with her nature." All explanations, however, which require an alteration in the Greek text of the passage must be set aside, for [1] there is no MS. evidence whatever to support any other reading than the ordinary one, exousian; & [2] any alteration of a difficult or unusual word would have been naturally into a word that would simplify the passage—whereas here, if alteration has taken place, it has been to insert a word which has increased the obscurity of a difficult passage.

It has been maintained that the word exousia here means the sign of power, i.e., a veil, which is the symbol of the husband's power over the wife. The fatal objection to this view, however, is that exousia expresses our own power, & not the power exercised by another over us. It is a word frequently used by Paul in this sense. [See 1Corinthians 8:9; 9:4-5; 9:12; 9:18.] Whatever interpretation, therefore, we put upon this passage, it must be consistent with this word being interpreted as meaning some "power" which the woman herself has, & not some power exercised over her by her husband.

Most commentators have quoted a passage from Diodorus Sic. i. 47, in which the Greek word "kingdom" [basileia] is used to signify "crown," as an illustration of the use of the word indicating the thing symbolised for the symbol itself. The parallelism between that use of the word kingdom, & the use here of the word "power," has been very positively denied [Stanley & others], on the ground that the "use of the name of the thing signified for the symbol, though natural when the power spoken of belongs to the person, would be unnatural when applied to the power exercised over that person by some one else." But the parallelism will hold good if we can refer the "power" here to some symbol of a power which belongs to the woman herself.

If we bear in mind the Apostle's constant use of words with a double significance, or rather with both an obvious & a subtly implied meaning, & if we also recall the reference made to a woman's abundance of hair in 1Corinthians 11:5-6, & the further reference to a woman's long hair in 1Corinthians 11:14-15, where the hair of the woman, given her by nature, & the wearing of a veil are used as almost identical thoughts, we may, I think, conclude that the "power" here spoken of is that long hair which in 1Corinthians 11:15 her "glory."

It is remarkable that Callistratus twice uses this word exousia in connection with hair to express its abundance.

To the Jews the recollection of Samson's history would have given the word "power," when applied to hair, a remarkable significance.

To thus turn aside abruptly in the middle of a long passage in which woman's subordination is enforced, & speak suddenly & vividly of her "power," would be eminently Paul.

In the Apostle's writings the thought of inferiority & superiority, of ruler & server, are frequently & almost paradoxically regarded & enforced as identical.

To serve because you rule; to be weak because you are in another sense strong, are thoughts strikingly combined again & again in the Epistles of Paul.

Thus I would imagine him here to suddenly turn aside & say, I have been speaking of your bondage & subordination, you are, because of this, to have a covering [a veil or long hair] on your head as a sign, & yet that very thing which is the symbol of your subjection to man is the sign of your beauty & "power" as a woman. ________________________________________________________

Because of the angels—Why should a woman have her head covered [either with her natural veil of hair, or with an artificial veil shrouding her face] because of the angels? The same objections which have been already stated to any alteration of the usual Greek text of the earlier clause of this v.apply equally here. The MS. evidence is unanimous in favour of the word "angels," nor can we accept any of the figurative meanings attached to the word angel as "the president" [Revelation 2:1], or "messenger," sent by enemies to see what took place contrary to general custom in those assemblies. We must take the word "angel" in its ordinary & general sense.

Revelation 2:1 | “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand & walks among the seven golden lampstands.

That the angels were present in assemblies for worship was an idea prevalent among the Jews [Psalm 138:1], & regarded as they were by the Christian as "ministering spirits" [Hebrews 1:14], no doubt their presence would be realised in the meetings of Christians.

Psalm 138:1 | Of David. I give You thanks w/ all my heart; before the gods I sing Your praises.

Hebrews 1:14 | Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

We have already seen that the Apostle in his argument upon the relation of the sexes to each other [1 Corinthians 11:7-9], refers to the 1st 3 CHs of Genesis as illustrating & enforcing that relationship.

1 Corinthians 11:7-9 | A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image & glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. For man did not come from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

What more natural than that his thoughts should have gone on to Corinthians of the same book, where is the record of the angels [in the LXX. the word translated "sons of God" is "the angels"—angeloi] having been enamoured by the beauty of women, & so having fallen from their high estate.

This account of "the fall of the angels" is referred to more than once elsewhere in the New Testament [Jude 1:6; 1 Corinthians 11:10; 2 Peter 2:4], & through Rabbinical interpretations would have been familiar to Paul's converts.

Jude 1:6-7 | And the angels who did not stay w/in their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. In like manner, Sodom & Gomorrah & the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality & pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 11:10 | For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

2 Peter 2:4 | For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Without at all necessarily expressing his belief in the historic accuracy of this legendary view of the fall of the angels, Paul might use it as an argument with those who did believe it [as in the case of the Rock,1 Corinthians 10:4].

1 Corinthians 10:4 | and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, & that rock was Christ.

You believe—would be St. Paul's appeal to these women—that once, through seeing the beauty of the daughters of men, the holy angels themselves fell—even that thought ought to make you feel that it is not seemly for you to be without a veil [of which your "power on your head," i.e., your hair, is the type] in those assemblies where the angels are present as God's ministering spirits.

It has been urged [by Meyer & others] that the word "angels," in the NT, always signifies good angels, & it is in that sense I would regard it here, for the thought surely is, that they are good angels, & should not, therefore, be tempted. I presume the idea was also that the fallen angels were "good" before their fall. _______________________________________________________

Ephesians 5:1-33 | Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, & walk in love, just as Christ loved us & gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ & of God.

Let no one deceive you w/ empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Therefore do not be partakers w/ them.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, & truth.

Test & prove what pleases the Lord.

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord—So in Romans 12:2, the “proving what is the good & acceptable & perfect will of God,” is the fruit of transformation “in the renewing of the mind.” “To prove” is to try in each case, by the full light of God, what is accordant to His will; it is a work partly of thought, partly of practical experience; & it always implies a searching examination of heart & action by the touchstone of God’s word [Ellicott].

Have no fellowship w/ the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, & Christ will shine on you.” Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled w/ the Spirit.

Speak to one another w/ psalms, hymns, & spiritual songs.

Sing & make music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church & gave Himself up for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing w/ water through the word, & to present her to Himself as a glorious church, w/out stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy & blameless. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes & cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

For we are members of His body.

“For this reason a man will leave his father & mother & be united to his wife, & the two will become one flesh.”

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ & the church. Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, & the wife must respect her husband.

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samanthasroberts · 7 years

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‘It’s flavourful as hell’: welcome to Hawaii’s annual Spam festival

In Britain its a joke. In Hawaii its a delicacy. Why does the luncheon meat have such a cult following?

Not even the drizzle can deter the crowds unspooling along Hawaiis Waikiki Beach. As late April showers fall upon Kalakaua Avenue, the roads are lined three-deep with sunburned tourists, surfer bros and silver-haired pensioners. Their colourful T-shirts, flower garlands and fancy dress costumes are soaked by rain, but eagerly they wait. Suddenly, a chorus of tiny ukuleles starts to play. The procession begins. Are they waiting to pay homage to a visiting dignitary or religious leader? No. Theyre here to celebrate Hawaiis favourite food: the immortal luncheon meat called Spam.

I join snaking queues for seemingly endless food stalls, each dish more absurd than the last: Spam pizza, Spam fried rice, Spam crackers, Spam pho, deep-fried mac and cheese bites (with Spam) and, of course, Spam fritters. I spot some Spam-infused macadamia nuts, and a slab of grilled Spam atop sticky rice, doused in soy and bound with seaweed: Spam sushi. Theres even Spam dipped in chocolate.

Serious Spam fans are focused on buying up rare flavours such as Spam Mezclita, Spam Tocino and Spam Portuguese Sausage. Others snap selfies beneath a giant arch of Spam cans, or gawp at a catamaran festooned with Spam tins. Kids try their luck at the Spam wheel of fortune, hoping to take home a branded T-shirt or headphones. I stumble into a king-sized Spam can made of foam, with human arms and legs sticking out. Inside is Honolulu Foodbank employee John Valdez. What would Hawaii be without Spam? he shouts through the costume. It would be boring!

Welcome to Spam Jam, the largest gathering of tinned pork enthusiasts on Earth. Today, I am one of 20,000 fans at the 15th annual event. The residents of Americas 50th state eat more Spam per capita than anywhere on earth, with Hawaiian steak found on five-star restaurant menus and at McDonalds. Last year, 8m cans were sold here and thats just the regular-sized ones, not counting Spam Singles, Spam Spread or smaller tins. But its not just Hawaii that adores Spam: in time for Spams 80th birthday on 5 July, global can sales topped 8bn.

Cans of Spam on display at the Spam Jam. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

In Britain, Spam is derided as fish bait, furniture varnish or gun grease; there have long been rumours that it contains pigs lips, snouts, trotters and tail. In fact, it lists just a half-dozen ingredients: pork with ham (Two cuts of the pig. One perfectly tender and juicy flavour), water, salt, sugar, potato starch and sodium nitrite. Spams makers are keen to point out that theres no hidden scrapings or useless bits of pork, and that its all from the shoulder or rear. In fact, at 90% pork, Spam rivals some luxury sausages. Yet in the UK its reputation is up there with Turkey Twizzlers, while its high salt and fat content make it the kind of processed food we now avoid for our health. If Spam is known in Britain as a culinary punchline, why is it so popular across the Atlantic?

In Austin, Minnesota, population 24,716, all roads lead to Spam. Spamtown USA, as it is sometimes known, is a cutesy, model version of a city, all straight lines and artificial lakes. It was here in 1891 that George A Hormel founded a family meatpacking firm that would one day become a Fortune 500 mainstay, employing one in six of Austins inhabitants. Hormels got his feet sticking out the window again, schoolchildren used to say, when the porky odour floated out factory doors.

Georges son, Jay Hormel, was a born opportunist: as a child, hed pay two cents for housewives unwanted sink grease, then hawk it to his fathers soap-making divisionfor twice the price. In 1929, he succeeded George as president and soon came up with a way to make use of rarely butchered pork shoulder meat. He adapted a Napoleonic food preservation technique, adding salt and sodium nitrite to keep it pink and ward off botulism, and at the same time making it indefinitely edible. By 1942, Hormel Foods was selling $120m- worth of Spam a year.

Anne and Mark I Love Spam Benson are in town to marry at the local Spam museum. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

Hormel-owned structures still dominate Austins skyline. Theres the stinky plant, rolling office blocks and the Hormel Institute, a biomedical research centre. The apex of the citys microscopic tourist industry is a newly revamped Spam museum, an Ikea-coloured time capsule of social, military and pop culture history. With Spam print beanbags, touch-sensitive screens and a jungle gym, the museum is aimed at the meat lovers of tomorrow, but when I visit it is also packed with elderly locals and Mormon missionaries. Inside, a bespectacled tour guide finds everything Spamazing, including a production line of cans that whizz overhead like Scalextric.

It is the meat that won the war, my guide cheerily informs me. During the second world war, allied soldiers consumed 68,000 tonnes of Spam, but Jay Hormel was devastated by the hate mail he received. The language people use! he told the New Yorker in 1945. If they think Spam is terrible, they ought to have eaten the bully beef we had in the last war. Hormel died in 1954, before President Eisenhower sent a letter with a personal pardon. I ate my share of Spam Ill even confess to a few unkind remarks about it, he wrote, on the firms 75th anniversary in business. But as former commander-in-chief, I believe I can still officially forgive you your only sin: sending us so much of it.

Spam couture. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

Today, the Spam museum is hosting its first wedding. Tying the knot are an eccentric British couple, Anne Mousley, 33, and Mark Benson, 42. A smiley care worker from Liverpool, Benson recently changed his middle name by deed poll to I Love Spam.His grandfather worked in Liverpools Spam factory after the war. No prizes for guessing the wedding buffet. Its like nothing else, says Benson of his favourite food, which he eats at least twice a week. Bit of a bacon flavour, bit of a porky flavour. Its totally unique. Spam aficionados of such calibre are rare, although I do learn of one Nebraskan man who in 2007 survived a 30-day Spam-only eating challenge.

Meanwhile, in South Korea, second only to America for Spam consumption, profits are booming. During the lunar new year, Spam is given as a gift, and budae jjigae, a Spam-infused army stew from the second world war, remains popular.

I learn that island territories such as Guam and Micronesia see Spam as a life-saver. During extreme weather, Spams limitless shelf life makes it a Pacific Islanders best friend. Later, I speak to a wild-haired Spam celebrity in rural Alaska, known as Mr Whitekeys. For 26 years, he ran a Spam-themed bar, complete with frequent Spammer cards buy 10 meals, get one free. If you want meat, you gotta have Spam, he says via Skype. Why? You cant get fresh supplies in large amounts, and half the time you dont have refrigeration.

Back in sunny Hawaii, breakfast beers are noisily slammed on a plastic folding table. Three miles from Waikiki Beach, I am mingling with professional chefs at the esteemed Kakaako farmers market, surrounded by organic produce and artisanal pasta. Keen to know what islanders really think of Spam, I talk to chef Mark Gooch Noguchi, 43, who runs the Pili Group, a culinary movement based around healthy, sustainable food. The opposite, one would assume, of Spam.

Spam-based dishes on display at Spam Jam 2017. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

But I love, love, love Spam, Noguchi tells me, unprompted, between swigs of beer, dressed in shorts, flip-flops and a loud flowery shirt. We grew up on it, he explains, passing me a pan-fresh beef taco. I remember when I was cooking in New York, other chefs would joke with me, like, Ha, you guys eat Spam, he says. But our parents had gone through the second world war. The big joke among local people is that if you visit your grandparents and look downstairs, theres six cases of toilet paper, four cases of paper towels and three cases of Spam. In Hawaii, Spam is the cement that bonds its many cultures from Japanese, Filipino and Hawaiian native, through to mainland United States. Noguchi proudly boasts that locals can tell Spam from its canned-pork competitors Tulip and Treet. Elsewhere, Spam is slowly being appropriated by hipster culture, just like scotch eggs and avocado before it. Its both an indulgence of nostalgia and two fingers up to eating clean. In Londons Soho, Jinjuu restaurant makes a Spamarita cocktail, mixing Spam-infused Ocho tequila with mezcal, pineapple, citrus, mandarin orange and agave nectar. And Saint Marc, an upscale restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, has a hidden Spam speakeasy known as the Blind Pig.

Flipping Spam burgers. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

Its revered, man, says Nina Pullella, 36, a chef I meet at Kakaako market. I think its the challenge of taking a can off the shelf this strange food from the second world war and doing something spectacular. Pullella is a vegan, from New Jersey via Italy, yet she still oozes praise for Spam as an ingredient (Its flavourful as hell, right?). After three hours at the market, I find just one person down on Spam. And she wont talk on record. Are you kidding? Ill have the whole island on my back, she whispers.

Night falls on Waikiki Beach. As the raindrops evaporate, a female rock band loudly tests the suspension of a flatbed stage. There is a snaking queue for OnoPops, an ice-cream company that flogs a Spam-based popsicle. Its a heartstrings thing, explains owner Josh Lanthier-Welch, 46, a stout man with a goatee. Though a Spam devotee, he warns of the dangers of excess: The Spam musubi [sushi] is a symbol of whats wrong with the local diet. It is so beloved, but living on Spam, white rice and nori will kill you.

As the festival comes to a close, I decide to break my 20-plus years of Spam abstinence (I havent touched the stuff since childhood). Im handed a skewer of cold cubed Spam and crunchy vegetables. I sink my teeth into the soft meat, and am transported back to my youth. The salty, pork-ish flavour wafts up my nostrils. I feel dirty and a little bit sick. Next I try a hot Spam katsu sandwich, from Hula Grill. I take a small bite. Then a larger one. It has a deep, smoky bacon flavour, offset by rich katsu sauce. It is, Im almost embarrassed to say, tremendous. Spam tempura fries, Spam corn dogs and Spam dim sum soon follow.

As I chew, I wonder if Spam deserves its reputation. Perhaps Brits just lack the imagination to cook Spam right. Or maybe, like KitKats in Japan or David Hasselhoffs mega-stardom in Germany, Spam should simply remain a pop culture anomaly the American Marmite that one either loves or hates.

Spam-flavoured macadamia nuts. Photograph: Marco Garcia for the Guardian

Spam fritters

Serves three.

340g Spam (ie, 1 can) 150g plain flour 225ml cold water 3 tbsp olive oil Buttered roll (optional) Cut the Spam lengthways into six thick slices. Put the flour in a mixing bowl and slowly introduce the water, whisking, until you have a smooth batter.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Dip each slice of Spam in the batter mix, shake to drain off any excess and lay in the hot pan. When its golden and crisp on one side, flip and repeat until its brown and crisp on both sides.

Serve in a buttered roll, if desired, with chips and peas on the side.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/08/its-flavourful-as-hell-welcome-to-hawaiis-annual-spam-festival/

from All of Beer https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/its-flavourful-as-hell-welcome-to-hawaiis-annual-spam-festival/

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