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QUESTION: If God inspired Paul to write that women are to have a covering on their head during corporate worship, then surely it must be obeyed. So please explain to me how HE (God) in the Scriptures can teach one thing and yet tell another that they don't have to obey what HE put into writing because of their own conscience? Is there dissimulation in God?

The basic issue is by sound exegesis of the text does God require a woman to wear a headcovering or not? It cannot be a matter of conscience which determines what the text says. Paul removes any such argument in his last remark,

So, is Paul saying that "we" (Apostles) have no custom of teaching women should wear a covering on their head over their natural hair and that no other Christian church anywhere outside of Corinth practices headcoverings? OR is Paul saying that "we" (Apostles) teach no such custom of allowing women to enter into corporate worship without a covering on their head and that there is no Christian church anywhere that allow women to enter into their assembly for corporate worship without a headcovering?

This is not a matter of scruples, i.e., Christian Liberty where one may choose to abstain from drinking alcohol, or from eating certain types of food, etc., even though Scripture teaches that all is permitted if used in moderation. What Paul is addressing is 1) the creation order of God, 2) the worship of God, and 3) how God's people are to conduct themselves as His created and redeemed people in that God-ordained worship.