Nothing in common

1 Corinthians 11:6 (KJV)
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.


This is from Rick Renner
"This passage may be best interpreted as a scriptural principle encased within a specific cultural context of New Testament times. In First Corinthians 11:6, it says, “For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn...” This may refer to the conduct of Corinthian women when they cropped their hair after the manner of Corinthian prostitutes. In that culture at that time, women who did this risked incurring the same kind of disgrace as if they were prostitutes themselves. The principle presented here may be this: If society has an association between the customary appearance of a practice that is sinful before God, Christians should avoid such appearances so as not to bring shame to the name of Christ."


1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV)
²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.


How needed this is for all of us to understand. We may dress like our culture, talk like our culture, behave like our culture, but when culture clashes with the biblical standard of behavior, there must be a divorce between us and them. Any desire within me to identify with the world's sin in likeness, thus projecting a commonality, is evidence I am sliding backwards.