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1 Corinthians 14 Titus 1:6 1 Corinthians 14 apostleship Titus 1:6

Additional evidence: Titus 1:6, male-only apostles, biblical rules about NT prophecy

Mike stacks additional scriptural evidence for Pillar 2.

Judges 2:16 Judges 2:18 Judges 4-5 Deborah Barak Judges 2:16

Deborah as the chief counter-example to patriarchalist restrictions

Mike presents a detailed analysis of Deborah as judge.

Isaiah 3:12 Deborah Isaiah 3:12 women ruling as judgment

Isaiah 3:12 does not prove women ruling is always God's judgment

Mike addresses the patriarchalist use of Isaiah 3:12.

Deborah women in government government vs marriage authority

Conclusion from Deborah: women can be in high roles of government

Mike draws the application from Deborah.

1 Corinthians 11 John MacArthur 1 Corinthians 14:29-35 1 Corinthians 11 John MacArthur judgment of prophecy

1 Corinthians 14:29-35 — women silent in judging prophecy, not silent in general

Mike interprets the controversial silence passage.

Mike Winger idea 2023-11-22

Stanley Porter's objection: future tense 'shall be saved' doesn't work with Eve

Mike addresses Porter's argument that the future tense of sozo contradicts Eve as the subject.

Romans 5:9 1 Timothy 4:16 2 Timothy 4:18 Stanley Porter Jared August future tense objection

Mike Winger idea 2018-01-10

JW article's core claim about Matthew 25:31-33

The JW article cites Matthew 25:31-33 as evidence for Christ's second coming

Matthew 25:31-33 Matthew 25:31-33 Judgment of the nations Throne of glory

Mike Winger idea 2018-01-10

JW misconception #1: Clouds represent judgment/hiddenness

JW misinterpretation of 'clouds' in Matthew 24:30

Matthew 24:30 Clouds of heaven Matthew 24:30 Visibility debate

Psalms 85:10 Bill Johnson hermeneutics superior and inferior truths

Bill Johnson's 'superior and inferior truths' teaching: the judgment of God is true but the mercy of God is 'more true'; anything not seen in Jesus is an inferior truth

Mike plays and deconstructs a specific Johnson video on the hierarchy of truths

Revelation 2:22-23 Bill Johnson healing theology Revelation 2:22-23

Revelation 2:22-23 — Jesus threatens to cast a false teacher into a sick bed and kill her followers: direct scriptural refutation of Johnson's 'God cannot give sickness' claim

Mike cites a key New Testament text to disprove Johnson's theology from within the very Jesus-focused framework Johnson uses

Revelation 6:16-17 Revelation 11:15-18 kingdom of God eschatology Revelation 6:16-17

Revelation 6:16-17 and Revelation 11:15-18 show that the coming of God's kingdom involves wrath and judgment, not just signs and wonders

Mike cites specific Revelation texts to establish what Scripture means by 'the kingdom coming'

evangelism Bill Johnson gospel

Q&A — Has Mike ever heard Johnson preach a clear gospel message? No — he's heard Johnson affirm the gospel but it's always followed by a pivot to signs and wonders

Q&A question from Chavita

Mike Winger idea 2018-02-21

Colossians 2:16-20: the JW misapplication of 'let no one judge you' to justify their blood refusal, when the passage actually condemns submission to regulations about food and drink as worldly.

Mike refutes a common JW counter-use of Colossians 2 to defend their blood doctrine.

Colossians 2:16 Colossians 2:20-22 Christian freedom food law abrogation Colossians 2:16

Genesis 7:4 false prophecy David Mead numerology

David Mead's third Scripture abuse: Genesis 7:4 'seventeenth day of the second month' read as the year 2017

Mead takes Noah's ark entry date from Genesis 7 and treats it as a numerological code predicting the year 2017.

false prophecy Harold Camping Family Radio

Harold Camping's 2011 prediction (May 21st): billboards, followers selling homes, and the aftermath

The 2011 prediction was Camping's most globally visible campaign, involving massive advertising funded by donated savings.

Psalm 90:4 2 Peter 3:8-11 Second Coming hermeneutics Harold Camping

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

Mike reads 2 Peter 3:8-11 in full to demonstrate that Camping's formula rips the verse from its actual argument.

false prophecy David Mead Harold Camping

Why do predictors keep trying to predict despite the clear scriptural prohibition? Possible motives: excitement, arrogance, novelty-seeking in Bible study

Part of the same Q&A exchange; Mike speculates on motivations.

Mike Winger idea 2017-12-27

Relationships area: evaluate whether you are fulfilling your calling — not whether others are fulfilling theirs

Elaboration on the 'relationships' area within Tip 4.

calling personal responsibility accountability

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

James 2:19 — 'Even demons believe and shudder' — intellectual assent alone is not saving faith

Verse-by-verse analysis of James 2:19

James 2:19 dead faith saving faith James 2:19

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

Contrast between demons (believe and tremble) and the easy-believer (believes and boasts) — the worse of the two

Pastoral application — comparing dead faith to demonic belief

James 2:19 dead faith easy believism James 2:19

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

Degrees of sin — some sins are worse than others; the Law has different consequences; Jesus said some will suffer greater judgment

Within the Q&A on murder and saving faith

Matthew degrees of sin Mosaic Law judgment

1 Corinthians 3:12 ministry works judgment

Gold, silver, precious stones vs. wood, hay, straw: quality of ministry, not purity of the person

Exegesis of 1 Corinthians 3:12 — the building materials metaphor

1 Corinthians 3:13 works purgatory purification

Critical distinction: it is the WORKS that are tested and potentially destroyed by fire, not the person

Core exegetical argument against the Catholic use of 1 Corinthians 3

1 Corinthians 3:14-15 salvation purgatory rewards

1 Corinthians 3:14-15: rewards or loss, not purgatorial suffering — salvation is never in question

Exegesis of the closing verses of the passage

1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 15 eschatology resurrection

Q&A — Sequence of events: go to heaven first, receive new bodies later at the future resurrection (1 Corinthians 15)

Follow-up on eschatological sequence — heaven, judgment, glorification, new earth

Mike Winger idea 2018-04-11

Q&A: Satan's final judgment — is Satan already in the lake of fire because of the cross?

Viewer question: Did Christ's victory at the cross cast Satan into the lake of fire? Is Satan now just a puppet?

Revelation eschatology Revelation preterism

Mike Winger idea 2018-04-25

Preterism as one response to the 'failed prophet' problem

Mike introduces preterism as the main alternative to his own futurist interpretation, with no intent to attack preterists.

preterism full preterism partial preterism

Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

CoG teaches Saturday Sabbath-keeping is required for salvation

Chapter 1 of Kim's book. Page 15 states Sabbath must be kept 'to enter eternal rest.' Page 25 states rejecting the Sabbath brings God's judgment; teaching against it earns hell.

World Mission Society Church of God salvation by works/observance Sabbath

Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

Christians are not under the Mosaic law — Sabbath observance is a liberty, not a requirement for salvation

Mike's rebuttal to Kim's Sabbath-as-salvation teaching.

Romans 14:5 Colossians 2:16-17 Sabbath law vs. grace Romans 14:5

Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

People deceived from childhood into false belief are still accountable, but God's judgment is calibrated to what they genuinely could have known — general revelation (creation, conscience) remains available to everyone

Q&A: question about accountability for someone deceived from before the age of accountability.

accountability general revelation judgment

Mike Winger idea 2018-08-16

Winger openly admits he uses reason to discover truth but not to determine it; Sye argues this distinction shows reason is not autonomous — which is the presup point

Discussion of autonomous reason vs. God-dependent reason

1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 15 presuppositional apologetics autonomous reason

Mike Winger idea 2018-08-16

Sye reframes 1 Kings 18: Elijah was not convincing people of something unknown but displaying God's glory to suppressors of truth; the event was judgment, not persuasion

Sye's counter-reading of 1 Kings 18

1 Kings 18 judgment presuppositional apologetics 1 Kings 18

Jeremiah 7:24-26 hierarchy of sin qualitative sin Old Testament narrative

Jeremiah 7:24-26 — Israel 'did worse than their fathers,' a qualitative moral judgment, not merely a count of more sins.

Mike cites another Old Testament narrative statement about moral deterioration across generations to reinforce qualitative distinctions in sin.

Matthew 11:20-22 judgment hierarchy of sin Jesus

Matthew 11:20-22 — Jesus declares that judgment will be 'more bearable' for Tyre and Sidon than for Chorazin and Bethsaida, indicating degrees of future condemnation.

Mike looks at Jesus' words about future judgment to show that not only are some sins worse, but the punishments in final judgment are also graduated.

Revelation 20:13 hell eschatology hierarchy of sin

Revelation 20:13 — At the final judgment, each person is judged 'according to what they had done,' indicating individualized and tailored condemnation, not a uniform punishment.

Mike rounds out his biblical survey with the great white throne judgment in Revelation to show that eschatological judgment is personalized.

judgment hell eschatology

Hell likely involves graded punishment — Jesus' teaching about more or less tolerable judgment supports the idea that individual experience in final condemnation varies.

Q&A section: a viewer asks whether hell's punishment bends to the severity of the sin.