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Direct Answer The transcript’s key warning is that modern preferences can drive people to invent explanations that remove the force of Scripture, especially when a practice becomes unpopular. Bercot doesn’t list today’s pressure points, but he gives a method: test claims against primary sources and beware of convenient stories that appear when obedience becomes costly.

Support from Transcript:

• He says in the 19th century, as women stopped covering, “commentators started making things up about Corinth.”
• The invented claim: prostitutes in Corinth supposedly went uncovered, so uncovered women were “assumed… prostitute[s].”
• He insists: “Where did they get that?… There is no ancient writing that says anything about that. Totally made up.”
• He argues Paul wasn’t making a Corinth-only rule; Corinth was “departing from the traditions… not following what the rest of the church is doing.”
• He notes evidence against the myth: Roman images/writers show many pagan women uncovered; the prostitute claim is “totally made up… to fit what somebody in the 20th or 21st century wants to hear.”