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Mike Winger idea 2022-12-04

It may not be necessary to decide exclusively who judged prophecy

Mike suggests the identity of the judges may not need to be precisely defined for the view to work.

Mormonism self-validation prohibition Islam
Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Egalitarians treat their position as a moral mission, not just a theological view

Mike describes the activist nature of egalitarian scholarship.

egalitarianism scholarly methodology social justice
Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Pillar 2 was not debated throughout church history — it is a very new debate

Mike argues from historical consistency.

church history novelty of doctrine prophecy exception
Mike Winger idea 2023-11-22

Schreiner's objection 1: the Messianic view requires seeing 'she' as Mary

Mike addresses Tom Schreiner's first objection to the Messianic interpretation.

1 Timothy 2:15 Genesis 3:15 Tom Schreiner 1 Timothy 2:15 Genesis 3:15
Mike Winger idea 2023-11-22

Summary of positive evidence for the Messianic view

Mike lists the accumulated arguments in favor of his preferred interpretation.

Genesis 3:15 1 Timothy 2:4-6 Galatians 4 converging evidence Messianic interpretation Genesis 3:15
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-14

The central theological pillar of Bethel: 'Jesus is perfect theology' — everything in Scripture must be filtered through Jesus and inferior revelations discarded

Mike identifies the one foundational doctrinal distinctive driving all of Bethel's theology

Bill Johnson hermeneutics christocentrism
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-07

Frame-by-frame analysis of Tom Fischer's leg-lengthening reveals that the 'short' leg is swinging outward, not growing — the foot that supposedly lengthened is actually the one moving, not the short one.

Detailed visual analysis of the second video with before/after comparisons.

Tom Fischer healing fraud leg lengthening
Mike Winger idea 2018-02-07

Key challenge to Todd White: why are the only visible physical healings the ones (leg lengthening) that are easiest to fake, and the ones that fall apart under examination?

Direct accountability question posed to Todd White.

discernment healing Todd White
Mike Winger idea 2018-04-18

Q&A: Premillennial vs. postmillennial; why Mike identifies himself as premillennial in this context

Question from B.C.B. Lloyd about millennial views.

Revelation eschatology premillennialism Revelation
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

Romans 4:4-5 — wages vs. gift; faith counted as righteousness to the one who does not work but believes

Additional Pauline argument against Catholic soteriology

Romans 4:4-5 justification by faith sola fide grace
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-14

Q&A: Romans 4:16 — is it about saving faith? Is Abraham a prototype for saving faith?

Viewer asks Mike's view on Romans 4:16

Romans 4:16 justification by faith Abraham saving faith
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Mass hallucination theory: the appearances of Jesus were mass hallucinations rather than physical encounters

Third alternate theory — described as the most popular among skeptics

resurrection Richard Carrier alternate theories
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

The resurrection is the one rational explanation that accounts for all five ALIVE facts

Conclusion of the evidence survey section

resurrection ALIVE acronym inference to best explanation
Mike Winger idea 2018-03-28

Apologetics is not 'hijacking history' — the historical facts preexist apologetic use; it is skeptics who abuse historical disciplines

Response to the charge that Christian apologists are inappropriately co-opting history

resurrection apologetics Richard Carrier
Mike Winger idea 2018-04-25

Mark 13:9-13 — the disciples' calling is faithful witness unto death, not watching for signs

Mike reads the persecution section of Mark 13 and draws out its theological implication for the disciples' posture.

Mark 13:9-13 Mark 13:9-13 persecution gospel to all nations
Mike Winger idea 2018-04-25

Mark 13:14 — the abomination of desolation is the actual sign Jesus gives

The pivot point in Mark 13: Jesus shifts from describing the delay to identifying the one sign that signals his coming is truly near.

Mark 13:14 Mark 13:14 abomination of desolation sign of the end
Mike Winger idea 2018-08-22

Kim selectively applies Old Testament law — takes Sabbath but ignores everything else in the same passage (Ezekiel 22:26)

Kim quotes Ezekiel 22:26 as proof that disregarding the Sabbath profanes God. Mike shows the verse also mentions distinctions between holy/common and clean/unclean — the entire Levitical system.

Ezekiel 22:26 proof-texting Joo-Cheol Kim Sabbath
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
Mike Winger idea 2018-08-16

In a culture of moral relativism, presuppositionalism doesn't prove the Word is true — it shows that you can't make sense of truth without the Word

Audience question about moral relativism; Sye's key presup move

presuppositional apologetics moral relativism truth as borrowed concept
Mike Winger idea 2018-08-16

1 Corinthians 8:6-7 — 'not everyone has this knowledge'; Winger argues this shows not all people know the God of the Bible; Sye says it refers to saving knowledge, not general knowledge

Winger's Scripture argument against universal conscious knowledge of God

1 Corinthians 8:6-7 general revelation knowledge of God saving knowledge
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-17

John 19:11 — Jesus tells Pilate that the one who handed him over 'has the greater sin,' demonstrating a qualitative comparison of two specific sins.

Mike examines the conversation between Jesus and Pilate during the Passion narrative as a direct statement by Jesus about comparative sin.

John 19:11 hierarchy of sin Jesus John 19:11
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-17

Luke 12:47-48 — The servant who knew his master's will and disobeyed receives a severe beating; the one who did not know receives a light beating. Knowledge and intent factor into the moral weight of a sin.

Mike examines a parable of Jesus about two servants with differing levels of knowledge to show that the same act can be morally worse depending on the actor's awareness.

Luke 12:47-48 hierarchy of sin Jesus Luke 12:47-48
Mike Winger idea 2018-10-17

James 2:10 does not teach that all sins are identical; it teaches that breaking any one point of the law makes a person a law-breaker before the same Lawgiver — a relational, not equivalence, statement.

Mike addresses the primary proof-text used to argue all sin is the same and offers an exegesis that resolves the apparent tension.

James 2:10 James 2:11 Romans 3:23 hermeneutics exegesis James 2:10
Mike Winger idea 2018-11-07

The one invalid way to use the Bible to prove itself is simple circularity: 'The Bible says it's God's Word, therefore it is.' This same logic could be applied to the Book of Mormon or the Quran, and Winger agrees with skeptics that this form of reasoning is illegitimate.

circular reasoning apologetics Bible reliability
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-05

Sin concerns specific bedroom behaviors, not identity, orientation, or the relationship as a whole

Winger clarifies what he means — and what the Bible means — when calling homosexual behavior sin.

sexual ethics biblical clarity sin
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-20

Introduction of the skeptical objection: Paul didn't know much about Jesus

Mike opens by framing the topic as a response to a common skeptical objection he hears when doing Christian apologetics.

apologetics Paul the Apostle historicity of Jesus
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-20

Romans 12:17 echoes Matthew 5:39 — do not repay evil for evil / turn the other cheek

Another parallel between Paul's ethical instructions and the Sermon on the Mount.

Romans 12:17 Matthew 5:39 Romans 12:17 Paul echoing Jesus's teaching Matthew 5:39
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Vatican II text: Lumen Gentium chapter 16 — what it actually says about Jewish people, Muslims, and the unevangelized

Mike goes to the primary source Barron cited to evaluate his claim that Vatican II is 'very clear'

conscience Vatican II Lumen Gentium
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Mike's disagreement with Vatican II's claim that Muslims worship the one true God

Responding to Lumen Gentium's statement about Muslims

Islam Christology monotheism
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-19

Romans 4:1-5 — Abraham justified by faith, not works, citing Genesis 15:6

Mike uses Abraham as the foundational Old Testament example of faith-based justification

Genesis 15:6 Romans 4:1-5 justification by faith Abraham imputed righteousness
Mike Winger idea 2019-01-23

Mother's life exception — ectopic pregnancy and similar cases are not 'abortion' by definition; they are pro-life decisions

Q&A — question about whether abortion is acceptable when the mother's life is at stake

pro-life bioethics mother's life exception
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-13

There is no single "the one" person to marry — biblical principles guide spouse selection, not divine designation

Viewer asking whether there is only one possible spouse and how that relates to free will

Proverbs 2 Corinthians 6:14 marriage sanctification Proverbs
Mike Winger idea 2019-03-13

1 Timothy 2:5 mediator concept underlies John 20:17 — Jesus is the one mediator between God and man.

Continuing the John 20:17 discussion.

1 Timothy 2:5 John 20:17 1 Timothy 2:5 John 20:17 Jesus as mediator
Mike Winger idea 2019-04-10

Abraham and David in Romans 4 as Old Testament examples of justification apart from works

Exegesis of Romans 4 on OT salvation

Romans 4 Genesis 15:6 David Abraham Romans 4
Mike Winger idea 2019-04-24

Q&A: Why is church attendance dropping? Glenn Stanton's "The Myth of the Dying Church" — mainline churches are dying, not Bible-believing churches

Audience question about church decline, particularly among Millennials and Gen Z

Southern Baptist Convention Barna Research The Myth of the Dying Church
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-16

The Angel of the Lord as the messianic figure — Malachi 3 and Judges 2

McLatchie connects the Angel of the Lord to the "messenger of the covenant" in Malachi 3, establishing the Angel of the Lord as a messianic figure.

Malachi 3:1 Judges 2:1 Malachi 3:1 Jonathan McLatchie Trinity in Old Testament
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-22

The seven deacons chosen in Acts 6 all have Greek names; one (Nicholas) is explicitly a proselyte. The Jerusalem church remains predominantly Jewish.

Acts 6:5 analysis

Acts 6:5 proselytes early church Acts 6:5
Mike Winger idea 2019-05-30

Q&A: God does not share his glory with anyone — how does receiving a glorified body fit? — Different senses of glory

Viewer asks how receiving a glorified resurrection body is consistent with God not sharing his glory.

resurrection God's glory glorified body
Mike Winger idea 2019-08-07

Q&A: Does God hate the sinner? Psalm 11:5 and the complexity of divine attitude

Viewer question on whether God's attitude toward the wicked is hatred.

Romans 9 Psalm 11:5 election God's love Romans 9
Mike Winger idea 2019-08-07

Q&A: Severity of the Oneness doctrine — compromises the very nature of God

Viewer asks about the theological severity of the Oneness Pentecostal position.

Trinity Christology theological error
Mike Winger idea 2019-09-04

Q&A: Polygamy is inherently sinful; one-flesh marriage precludes a second wife by definition

A viewer asks how to demonstrate that polygamy is sinful for Christians. Winger argues from the nature of marriage itself and from both Testaments.

1 Timothy 3:2 Genesis 2:24 Titus 1:6 1 Timothy 3:2 Genesis 2:24 Titus 1:6
Mike Winger idea 2019-10-02

Third meaning: all roads lead to God in judgment — this is true and sober

The one coherent interpretation of the slogan

Hebrews 9:27 gospel proclamation final judgment exclusivity of Christ
Mike Winger idea 2020-08-28

Romans 14 shows that observing the Sabbath is a matter of conscience, not universal Christian obligation; liberty must be exercised in love

Continuing the Sabbath question with a detailed reading of Romans 14.

Colossians Romans 14 Colossians Romans 14 Christian liberty
Mike Winger idea 2020-09-04

Matthew 21 has two animals at the Triumphal Entry while Mark and Luke have one; the young donkey points to Jesus's sacrificial nature

Q from Flora about why Matthew 21:1-8 mentions both a donkey and a colt while other Gospels only mention one animal.

Mark Luke Matthew 21:1-8 Gospel harmonization Mark Luke
Mike Winger idea 2020-09-25

The one cup of communion is conceptual, not physical — referring to the blood of Christ

Resolution of the one-cup communion question

Lord's Supper blood of Christ eucharist
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-02

Degrees of judgment in hell: God factors in knowledge when judging — sinning in ignorance vs. sinning with full knowledge results in different severity of judgment

Expanding the Hebrews 10 discussion to address differentiated eschatological judgment

Luke 12:47-48 judgment unevangelized hell
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-02

Near-death / heaven-visiting accounts: deep skepticism warranted; Paul's 2 Corinthians 12 model shows the right posture is silence, not book tours

Question from S.M. Hart about people selling books on visiting heaven or hell

2 Corinthians 12 Paul 2 Corinthians 12 false prophets
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-17

God as matchmaker — Mike rejects "the one" theology applied universally

Q from Haruhi Anderson about the doctrine that God has one divinely chosen spouse for every Christian.

Proverbs Genesis 24 Proverbs Marriage The One
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-17

Proverbs: "He who finds a wife finds a good thing" — find a good one, not the one

Mike applies Proverbs to marriage decision-making.

Proverbs 18:22 Marriage Guidance Proverbs 18:22
Mike Winger idea 2020-10-23

The one true sign in Matthew 24 is the Abomination of Desolation — referenced from Daniel 9

Mike identifies the single definitive sign Jesus gives in Matthew 24.

Matthew 24:15 Daniel 9 Matthew 24 Matthew 24:15 Daniel 9 eschatology