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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mistake #1: Using life experience to answer what the Bible says — 'I know I'm called' as a bypass of scripture.

Mistake #1: Life experience overriding scripture

bypassing scripture calling experience-based theology

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Linda Belleville's argument: Genesis 2 speaks of order and source, not authority -- Mike's rebuttal: these aren't mutually exclusive; primogeniture is precisely about order implying authority.

Egalitarian counter-argument from Belleville

Linda Belleville Gen 2 order and source

Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Cyrus limits the carrier to the letter's content, not expanding authority

Mike examines the second ancient source.

letter carrier as teacher ancient letter customs Xenophon

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-09

Burer's 2015 paper brings 71 new supporting texts

Mike details the new evidence Burer marshals.

Romans 16:7 Romans 16:7 Michael Burer Burer 2015 paper

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-30

Introduction: Mike feared he had not heard the best egalitarian arguments

Mike explains why he avoided answering women-in-ministry questions for years — he worried he had not been exposed to strong egalitarian arguments due to his complementarian upbringing.

Mistake #1: Using life experience to answer what the Bible says — 'I know I'm called' as a bypass of scripture.

Linda Belleville's argument: Genesis 2 speaks of order and source, not authority -- Mike's rebuttal: these aren't mutually exclusive; primogeniture is precisely about order implying authority.

Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Cyrus limits the carrier to the letter's content, not expanding authority

Burer's 2015 paper brings 71 new supporting texts

Introduction: Mike feared he had not heard the best egalitarian arguments

1 Corinthians 12:29-30 — Paul's rhetorical questions show not everyone is supposed to teach

The central question: Does Galatians 3:28 limit interpretation of other passages?

The whole debate hinges on how far 'sonship status' can be stretched

The egalitarian challenge: stretching sonship status to include eldership

Rhetorical challenge: if 'no Jew or Gentile' means Gentiles can be elders, why can't women?

Hypothetical: if Scripture required Jewish elders, would you accept it?

Mike's goal is not a summary of what to think, but a thorough, comprehensive biblical view that navigates all relevant debates.

Video format: five interpretive approaches, then 14 questions (central vs. peripheral)

Summary of why the judging prophecy view is superior: answering all four key questions

Overview of application questions this video will address

The series has 40+ hours of free content and has had over 4 million views

Confusion of 'pastor' title across churches — example of 8 different pastor titles

Easy cases: women as ushers — clearly permissible

Teaching Christian doctrine at conferences and Bible colleges — probably permissible

Wednesday/off-service teaching: if a non-elder man could do it, probably a woman could too

Teaching on a Sunday morning — the hardest case; various approaches churches take

Women worship leaders: depends on whether the role becomes pastoral

The cost of over-restriction: limiting ministry and spiritual development of women

Mike's personal disappointment with egalitarian arguments

Matthew 24 context: Temple destruction and two distinct questions

Book of Job handled dismissively by the Bethel movement: Johnson's position is 'Job is the question, Jesus is the answer'

Bill Johnson Q&A answer on whether God causes sickness: 'You can't give what you don't have — God doesn't have cancer, so He can't give it'

Q&A — Is lack of faith why we cannot heal? Mike: faith is one factor, but not the only one — Paul's thorn in the flesh demonstrates God can say 'no' even to a man of great faith

Closing exhortation: don't pull back from healing, prophecy, or the Spirit because of Bethel's errors — the hunger of their movement reveals a real need the church should meet genuinely

LDS Church's official position: understand the Book of Abraham through 'careful study of its teachings and by the witness of the Holy Spirit'

Argument from the Mormon authority hierarchy: when the Bible, LDS standard works, and the Holy Spirit contradict each other, which do Mormons follow?

Second video: Tom Fischer performs a leg-lengthening healing. Mike distinguishes this as likely not deliberate fraud but rather sincere self-deception.

Subjects being 'healed' often give ambiguous answers ('h,' 'I feel a little better') rather than clear confirmations — reflecting social pressure to humor the healer rather than genuine healing.

Scoliosis diagnosis via back-twisting is medically invalid — a 'pop' is not confirmation of healing, and Todd White has cultivated a deliberately low threshold for confirming healings.

Fifth video: Todd White heals a boy's leg outdoors on a gridded sidewalk. Mike notes the advantage of using the sidewalk grid lines as fixed reference points to track actual foot movement.

Todd White's consistent pattern of asking questions and answering them for the subject ('You feel better now? Yes, you're totally better') is manipulative and suppresses honest reporting.

Sixth video: a vision-healing video where a woman prays for a boy with one good eye and one bad eye using countdowns, but key problems include: covering the good eye during prayer, then uncovering it before asking if vision is clear.

Rushing to confirmation rather than allowing honest, pressure-free self-reporting is a key problematic tactic in these healing ministries.

Todd White's 'divine knowing' is undermined by the guessing game that precedes it — if he already knew, why ask multiple wrong questions first?

Q&A: Mike shares his own experience witnessing apparent miracles, including a cancer that disappeared after prayer — while acknowledging the difficulty of definitive verification.

2 Peter 3:8 in context: the passage teaches God's patience and the unexpectedness of judgment — not a mathematical formula for calculating dates

Q&A: How should Christians prepare for the end of the world?

Q&A: Why does Jesus now know the day/hour when he said he didn't while on earth? — Kenosis and the limitation of incarnation

Q&A: Age of the earth — Mike's honest agnosticism between young-earth and old-earth positions

Catholic counter-argument: James 2:24 is the only place 'faith alone' appears in Scripture — and it negates it

Challenge to Catholics: Romans 11:6 — grace and works are diametrically opposed; if works, grace is no longer grace

Tim Staples' argument: 'you can't separate the person from the works' — and Mike's rebuttal

Jimmy Akin's (Catholic Answers) soft interpretation of 2 Maccabees: the passage presupposes that prayer can help the dead on their journey to heaven

Catholic apologetic response: the amulets were 'lucky charms' not idolatrous — Jimmy Akin's baseball sock analogy

Q&A — Revelation 21:27 and the need for purification before heaven: answered by 1 Corinthians 15

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