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@ronhenzel T Wives submitting does not preclude husbands also submitting (Eph 5

@ronhenzel T Wives submitting does not preclude husbands also submitting (Eph 5:21, Phil 2).

Eph 5:21 debate

@ronhenzel Yes, true, wives submit. No disagreement there. And now tell me why

@ronhenzel Yes, true, wives submit. No disagreement there. And now tell me why husbands do not also submit? Did you read anywhere that commands husbands *not* to submit? Eph 5:21 and Phil 2.

Eph 5:21 debate

@howertonjosh [36:31] “She respects him with prose—this is words. … Whatever you say about your husband, his heart will begin to believe ‘she’s right.’ …Don’t focus on [his struggles], focus on the 1 area in his life where you see evidence of grace…”...

@howertonjosh [36:31] “She respects him with prose—this is words. … Whatever you say about your husband, his heart will begin to believe ‘she’s right.’ …Don’t focus on [his struggles], focus on the 1

@howertonjosh The key he is actually stating is not that the wife prioritizes he

@howertonjosh The key he is actually stating is not that the wife prioritizes her husband and he simply basks in being prioritized (though he seems to suggest this as she’s calling him king), but that

Eph 5:21 debate

@howertonjosh “A Christian wife respects her husband (Eph 5:33). …You respect hi

@howertonjosh “A Christian wife respects her husband (Eph 5:33). …You respect him by giving him the appropriate place in your life (one flesh priority). …in general, husbands are going to prioritize t

Eph 5:33 general

@howertonjosh [31:14] “There’s a line in the movie [My Big Fat Greek Wedding] where one of the ladies says ‘the husband is the head, but the wife is the neck. She can turn him any way she wants.’ Now, kinda funny, but also kind of demonic, little dem...

@howertonjosh [31:14] “There’s a line in the movie [My Big Fat Greek Wedding] where one of the ladies says ‘the husband is the head, but the wife is the neck. She can turn him any way she wants.’ Now,

[30:48] “Husbands, are you seeing a theme? I want to bless and protect my wife.

[30:48] “Husbands, are you seeing a theme? I want to bless and protect my wife. In all those things, Janet might say I disagree but there’s moments I’ll defer.” Yes and this is because he is serving

“A wife submitting to her husband is honouring his role as the loving head of th

“A wife submitting to her husband is honouring his role as the loving head of the family and taking a posture that acknowledges, encourages and follows his leadership in both words and actions as the

“The whole reason God gave her to you as a helper is cause you need her voice… H

“The whole reason God gave her to you as a helper is cause you need her voice… Husbands, do not be surprised when your helper starts helping.” [24:16] This is good, though it presumes only one is a h

“You should submit like Jesus submitted to His head, God the Father in Gethsemen

“You should submit like Jesus submitted to His head, God the Father in Gethsemene.” [23:50] This arrangement has the woman playing the part of “the human” and the husband the part of “God” and is why

Howerton—frantically waving his arms—then makes a list of important caveats (“for the internet” 😂), some of which are necessary for comps to state. He believes women can be CEOs but at home, the husband is the boss. Not all comps believe this! My t...

Howerton—frantically waving his arms—then makes a list of important caveats (“for the internet” 😂), some of which are necessary for comps to state. He believes women can be CEOs but at home, the husb

“What’s your headship to look like? I’m willing to die for your blessing, protec

“What’s your headship to look like? I’m willing to die for your blessing, protection and flourishing” [19:26]. This is a nice framing for a complementarian, but being willing to die for some future o

The passage he reads from says “of which He is the Savior” but he doesn’t seem t

The passage he reads from says “of which He is the Savior” but he doesn’t seem to note the significance of this is relation to the head metaphor (kephale). This is all about Jesus as the source of li

“A Christian wife is submissive to her husband” [17:29]. “My goal is not to take us back 70 years to the 50s but 2000 years to the Bible.” 👏 (then reads starting at Eph 5:22…) Uh, if Josh TRULY wants to be Biblical, then why didn’t he read Eph 5:...

“A Christian wife is submissive to her husband” [17:29]. “My goal is not to take us back 70 years to the 50s but 2000 years to the Bible.” 👏 (then reads starting at Eph 5:22…) Uh, if Josh *TRULY* wa

Eph 5:21 Eph 5:22 debate

BOTH the wife and the husband can become a hindrance and not a helper to each

*BOTH* the wife and the husband can become a hindrance and not a helper to each other. This seems so obvious. /18 https://t.co/B0Glk2t94w

While it is true that if both partners don’t support each other, they will drag

While it is true that if both partners don’t support each other, they will drag each other down and they likely won’t reach their full potential, how can’t he see that the husband can easily do the sa

He says the power that the wife has is that “where [her] family and her husband

He says the power that the wife has is that “where [her] family and her husband ends up is largely influenced by [her]—that’s the power [she] has” [13:29]. He then refers to a quip Winston Churchill’

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He asks “The question is will you use that power to build up or break down your

He asks “The question is will you use that power to build up or break down your husband?” [12:12]. But the same can be said of the husband towards his wife! /15 https://t.co/wzxnv90Xb3

He then goes on to claim that “God has designed marriage for husbands to be the

He then goes on to claim that “God has designed marriage for husbands to be the loving heads (authority)…and wives to be respectful helpers” [9:44]. He then addressed how this makes the wives look “d

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-11

@JamMom89 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Kephale doesn’t mean authority or ruler over. God made Eve from Adam’s flesh and bone: he was her source. Every husband and wife after this are patterned after the first one-flesh couple. The woman isn’t inherently ...

@JamMom89 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Kephale doesn’t mean authority or ruler over. God made Eve from Adam’s flesh and bone: he was her source. Every husband and wife after this are patterned after the fi

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-06

@totalgenius777 @MikeWingerii I suppose, though we have in Priscilla someone who

@totalgenius777 @MikeWingerii I suppose, though we have in Priscilla someone who taught Apollos more accurately, and someone who is shown as more prominent than her husband, who led a home church and

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Where does it say her desire will be

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Where does it say her desire will be to “rule over” her husband? Why are you adding to scripture?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-02

@VincentBrocato @Eric_Conn @NathanHodg3268 A husband isn't called to rule his wi

@VincentBrocato @Eric_Conn @NathanHodg3268 A husband isn't called to rule his wife.

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Today the husband is the head (source) of his wife

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Today the husband is the head (source) of his wife not because she came from his side, but because marriage is defined by the first marriage for which this was the case.

@RenOfMen We are not supposed to subjugate another human against their will. Of

@RenOfMen We are not supposed to subjugate another human against their will. Of course if they violate the law of the land, we do this regularly. However, a husband is never to do that to his wife!

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii There is no 'womankind' separated from 'mankind'⎯there are no kinds of humans like kinds of animals. Both male and female are humankind or mankind. The grammar doesn't agree with your proposal. She will be saved [future...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii There is no 'womankind' separated from 'mankind'⎯there are no kinds of humans like kinds of animals. Both male and female are humankind or mankind. The grammar doesn't a

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You know that T was admonished not to be timid (2T

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You know that T was admonished not to be timid (2Ti 1:7), so the reason Paul is giving him ‘his’ authority is because T is timid. T is intervening between a husband and a

2Ti 1:7 debate

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine If you read 1Ti 3 overliterally an overseer has to be married and have at least 2 believing children. Those who read “husband” and rather than asserting married say “must be male” are not taking the text literally as they c...

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine If you read 1Ti 3 overliterally an overseer has to be married and have at least 2 believing children. Those who read “husband” and rather than asserting married say “must be

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul uses this prototypically and so reaches for a specific word which illustrates what is going on⎯that a deceived and ignorant (and therefore unnamed) wife is teaching false doctrine and her undeceived husband (likely ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul uses this prototypically and so reaches for a specific word which illustrates what is going on⎯that a deceived and ignorant (and therefore unnamed) wife is teaching

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul sees a situation that is not unlike that of the garden of Eden⎯the wife is deceived and attempting to lead Adam into the same sin; the husband (Adam) is not deceived but silent, not correcting or protecting her give...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul sees a situation that is not unlike that of the garden of Eden⎯the wife is deceived and attempting to lead Adam into the same sin; the husband (Adam) is not deceived

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-13

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Paul is advocating for singleness as he himself is in 1Co 7:7-8,32-34,38 and suggesting it is better. Yet translations all have 1Ti 3:2 as saying husband or “faithful to his wife.” The text is clear—it is refe...

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Paul is advocating for singleness as he himself is in 1Co 7:7-8,32-34,38 and suggesting it is better. Yet translations all have 1Ti 3:2 as saying husband or “f

1Co 7:7-8 1Ti 3:2 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-12

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry If it says husband but you say doesn’t h

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry If it says husband but you say doesn’t have to be a husband then on what basis are you disagreeing with the literal word in the text?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-12

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Does husband apply to a single men like

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Does husband apply to a single men like Paul and Timothy?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus and relating what is happening back to the fall in...

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden where Eve was made from and for Adam. Both were com...

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden w

Ge 1:28 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@quackitude @smashbaals The thing is that I like the term “complementarian” as m

@quackitude @smashbaals The thing is that I like the term “complementarian” as men and women complement each other. But they add—as a requirement—that a husband is to rule his wife and by extension he

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@Whatsinaname41 @AVER735 Exactly! But he’s going to then use "Eph 5:24: 'Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.'" Yet he takes this in isolation forgetting the context of mutual submission a...

@Whatsinaname41 @AVER735 Exactly! But he’s going to then use "Eph 5:24: 'Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.'" Yet he takes this in isola

Eph 5:24 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft But still there isn’t anything on the record to say what the women were specifically teaching and why the men were using their prayers to argue. And Paul doesn’t tell the women who are claiming godliness to have s3x ...

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft But still there isn’t anything on the record to say what the women were specifically teaching and why the men were using their prayers to argue. And Paul doesn’t tell

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-21

@AVER735 Wait, the husband’s sin is losing his temper and the wife’s is attempte

@AVER735 Wait, the husband’s sin is losing his temper and the wife’s is attempted murder or adultery?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-21

@theobro4sammich How about the husband cooks or does dishes?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-21

Brian thinks the elders should be called if his wife “rebels against her husband

Brian thinks the elders should be called if his wife “rebels against her husband.” So is this like if she doesn’t make the dinner he demands or doesn’t clean the house when he commands? So then a bunc

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Timothy, he gives him his apostolic authority to hel...

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Ti

1Ti 2:12 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Who is saying “did God really say?” Let me ask you this: was Paul disqualifying himself in 1Ti 3:1-13? He said “husband” and referring to managing one’s home with multiple believing children. Paul ...

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Who is saying “did God really say?” Let me ask you this: was Paul disqualifying himself in 1Ti 3:1-13? He said “husband” and referring to managing

1Ti 3:1-13 question

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley The desire for her husband followed the statement of her toil in childbearing and increased conception rate. So despite the painful toil, she wouldn’t separate from Adam but would desire him. The same word is used in Song of ...

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley The desire for her husband followed the statement of her toil in childbearing and increased conception rate. So despite the painful toil, she wouldn’t separate from Adam but w

Titus 1:5-9 1Ti 3:1-13 debate

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Yes, and I spent time explaining "one wife husband" and how it is an idiom. Gary, I don't know where you were trained or what Greek you took, but the "he"'s in the entirety of 1Ti 3:1-13 and Titus 1:5-9 ar...

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Yes, and I spent time explaining "one wife husband" and how it is an idiom. Gary, I don't know where you were trained or what Greek you took, but the "he"'

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Hi Gary. I'm not sure why you highlighted 1Ti 3:1. It uses the pronoun τις (tis) which means anyone or someone, not "any man" (like the NASB translates) or "a man" (as the NKJV translates). As for μιᾶς γυν...

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Hi Gary. I'm not sure why you highlighted 1Ti 3:1. It uses the pronoun τις (tis) which means anyone or someone, not "any man" (like the NASB translates) or

1Ti 3:1 commentary

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale He says many people who are able are unqualified. That is right. But to be disqualified because you are too short, too overweight, too old, the wrong nationality, the wrong socioeconomic status, or the not ...

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale He says many people who are able are unqualified. That is right. But to be disqualified because you are too short, too overweight, too old, the wrong nation

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

Yikes! Gen 3 doesn’t curse the man and woman; it curses the serpent and the ground. The woman’s increased toil in childbirth and her desire for her husband suggest a continued affection and bond to him, not dominance. Adam’s blaming Eve is the reas...

Yikes! Gen 3 doesn’t curse the man and woman; it curses the serpent and the ground. The woman’s increased toil in childbirth and her desire for her husband suggest a continued affection and bond to

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley How about how the family should be seen and treated day

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley How about how the family should be seen and treated day to day? BTW, if the husband is at work and the wife is at home, is she to wait 30 minutes for her husband to drive home

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley The husband ought to serve his family in the gifting he has, which includes his strength. It is pretty rare that you need to defend your family nowadays, preventing women from protecting their families if their husband is not...

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley The husband ought to serve his family in the gifting he has, which includes his strength. It is pretty rare that you need to defend your family nowadays, preventing women from