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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-19

@MaxBlumenthal Actually, he means “I don’t believe in God but the history and ar

@MaxBlumenthal Actually, he means “I don’t believe in God but the history and archaeological facts documented in the Bible are clear that Israel belongs there.”

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-12

What is magical however is how some men seem to have an inherent defect—they can

What is magical however is how some men seem to have an inherent defect—they can’t learn truth from a female teacher/pastor yet women can learn from either. Why is that? https://t.co/oyzR5P3Vee

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@rfl3tcher @Toneskeee If context is key, then how can you ignore that Paul was writing about false teachers? And Paul speaks about women (pl) in 2:9-10 and then uses the singular in 2:11-12. He doesn’t say “women are not to teach…men” but refers to ‘...

@rfl3tcher @Toneskeee If context is key, then how can you ignore that Paul was writing about false teachers? And Paul speaks about women (pl) in 2:9-10 and then uses the singular in 2:11-12. He doesn’

in 2:11-12 in 2:9-10 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Grump_Old_Man @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Ah, hi again Grumpy! Paul said he was responding to things the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1). After quoting from their letter in 1Co 14:34-35, Paul writes: “What? came the word of God out from you ...

@Grump_Old_Man @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Ah, hi again Grumpy! Paul said he was responding to things the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1). After quoting from their letter in 1Co 14:34-35, Paul

1Co 14:34-35 1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for 1Ti 3:11-15, you have to read this passage in context. Paul wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrines, not to stop anyone from teaching anyone else the truth. That...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for 1Ti 3:11-15, you have to read this passage in context. Paul wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrines, not to sto

1Ti 2:15 1Ti 3:11-15 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 Regarding the requirements for elders, nowhere is it stated “must not be a female.” The requirements Paul lists are related to character, things you can change, not things you have no control over such as whether you are mal...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 Regarding the requirements for elders, nowhere is it stated “must not be a female.” The requirements Paul lists are related to character, things you can change, not things yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for Is 3:12, this was after all the strong had been taken away. So even if it is referring to women and children, it would be the weak ones. There is a variant reading in the LXX which doesn’t mention women. Lastly that w...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for Is 3:12, this was after all the strong had been taken away. So even if it is referring to women and children, it would be the weak ones. There is a variant reading in

Is 3:12 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee That is also being misinterpreted as obviously the Bible isn’t teaching that universally all women can be deceived and men can’t or even that all women are more easily deceived than men. Paul uses Adam and Ev...

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee That is also being misinterpreted as obviously the Bible isn’t teaching that universally all women can be deceived and men can’t or even that all women are mor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@parabellum7711 @DoulosDean68 This issue is not a matter of heresy. Heresy has t

@parabellum7711 @DoulosDean68 This issue is not a matter of heresy. Heresy has to do with the essentials of the faith. I believe the Bible and interpret it carefully. I don’t see roles in Ge 1-3.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Only if you read it completely out of context, miss that Paul was writing this in a personal letter to Timothy, miss his grammatical cues showing he was referring to a specific deceived wife teaching heresy and don’t know wh...

@LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Only if you read it completely out of context, miss that Paul was writing this in a personal letter to Timothy, miss his grammatical cues showing he was referring to a specif

1Ti 2:15 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@MarkAnthonyNel4 @rightresponsem As for “right at the door,” It’s like saying, “You can hear the knock; the arrival is certain and close.” In Hebrew thought, “at the door” often marks a decisive point as in Gen 4:7 (“sin is crouching at the door”) or...

@MarkAnthonyNel4 @rightresponsem As for “right at the door,” It’s like saying, “You can hear the knock; the arrival is certain and close.” In Hebrew thought, “at the door” often marks a decisive point

Gen 4:7 Jas 5:9 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@ronhenzel @sola_chad The law of noncontradiction applies within a defined system of premises, but the real question is whether your theological system actually reflects what Scripture teaches. Claiming other interpretations are inconsistent simply ...

@ronhenzel @sola_chad The law of noncontradiction applies within a defined system of premises, but the real question is whether your theological system actually reflects what Scripture teaches. Claim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad And again you became a Calvinist under only the preachi

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad And again you became a Calvinist under only the preaching of a non Calvinist pastor and reading your Bible without commentary?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad So you read Romans 3 and thought that there is no one who did good and didn’t wonder whether that idea would mean Paul was quoting Ps 14 out of context? Was your pastor or those you were listening to (aka the commentaries) n...

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad So you read Romans 3 and thought that there is no one who did good and didn’t wonder whether that idea would mean Paul was quoting Ps 14 out of context? Was your pastor or th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@ronhenzel @sola_chad So you can say with a completely straight face that there

@ronhenzel @sola_chad So you can say with a completely straight face that there is no other possible Biblically consistent interpretation of the scriptures except yours? It’s not that you just disagre

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@sola_chad You become a Calvinist by reading commentaries and systematic theolog

@sola_chad You become a Calvinist by reading commentaries and systematic theology not by just reading the Bible.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-09

This is faulty interpretation. Paul is quoting from the Corinthians: “Now concer

This is faulty interpretation. Paul is quoting from the Corinthians: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote...” (1Co 7:1). Then after he quotes them, he writes: “What? came the word of God o

1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-09

@Truth_matters20 The problem is that this is a misreading of the text. Paul said he is responding to what the Corinthians wrote to him: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote…” (1Co 7:1) After quoting them, Paul writes: “What? came the wor...

@Truth_matters20 The problem is that this is a misreading of the text. Paul said he is responding to what the Corinthians wrote to him: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote…” (1Co 7:1) Af

1Co 7:1 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-08

@sanderson1611 You cut off the first part of verse 14 which says that they are s

@sanderson1611 You cut off the first part of verse 14 which says that they are suffering the same things from their own countrymen (non-Jews) that the early church did from the Jews (ie those who reje

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-06

@dalepartridge What’s interesting is that the Bible commends strong liquor (Dt 14:26) and seems generally ok with alcohol consumption (Jesus producing large quantities of wine after people had been drinking for days). Yes, drunkenness is a sin. Glutt...

@dalepartridge What’s interesting is that the Bible commends strong liquor (Dt 14:26) and seems generally ok with alcohol consumption (Jesus producing large quantities of wine after people had been dr

Dt 14:26 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-06

@LifeGetsButter @grok @hmcrem If Barak lacked courage, have you considered what

@LifeGetsButter @grok @hmcrem If Barak lacked courage, have you considered what he said was the same thing Moses said? And why did the author to the Hebrews include him in the hall of faith? https://t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-06

@JanZizkasburner @rightresponsem Well, Heb 11:32 settles the question: “And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets…” Barak is listed among those who “through f...

@JanZizkasburner @rightresponsem Well, Heb 11:32 settles the question: “And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prop

Heb 11:32 Heb 11:33 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-06

@BeRegener8ed @rightresponsem Strange, that’s not how the author to the Hebrews

@BeRegener8ed @rightresponsem Strange, that’s not how the author to the Hebrews framed it when including Barak in the chapter on faith. The term shame wasn’t used. Barak would rather have God’s word w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@SKArmsCo @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Sounds like you are talking about two differen

@SKArmsCo @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Sounds like you are talking about two different things. Egalitarian does NOT mean forcing men to be women or someone who isn’t skilled into a job ahead of a skilled p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Don’t teach false doctrine is what it says. A woman

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Don’t teach false doctrine is what it says. A woman in Ephesus was teaching heresy. Why on earth people think Paul literally meant that women shouldn’t lead when we have cl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

That women can’t teach truth to men or lead. https://t.co/IhwasgSeT4

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Finding an interpretation that makes sense of all the details in the context, the grammar and the rest of scripture is not looking for loopholes. I prefer the scripture over man’s infallible interpretation. If you want to...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Finding an interpretation that makes sense of all the details in the context, the grammar and the rest of scripture is not looking for loopholes. I prefer the scripture ov

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen You are using a similar argument to what I am except I am combining the clear reading “I do not permit a woman to teach” with the context about stopping false teaching and drawing the only reasonable logical conclusion. I...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen You are using a similar argument to what I am except I am combining the clear reading “I do not permit a woman to teach” with the context about stopping false teaching and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Here are the facts: - Both knew the commandment and the consequences of not obeying. - Adam was right beside Eve and heard her voice speaking to the serpent. - Paul says Adam wasn’t deceived and linked deception with the t...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Here are the facts: - Both knew the commandment and the consequences of not obeying. - Adam was right beside Eve and heard her voice speaking to the serpent. - Paul says Ad

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As I already explained, Paul is describing a deceive

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As I already explained, Paul is describing a deceived wife who was teaching heresy, not anyone teaching truth. You are misinterpreting the passage and then claiming that yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Curious…who was Paul speaking to in the following? W

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Curious…who was Paul speaking to in the following? Women? Only women can be tricked? “I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led

2Co 11:3 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Well, that’s what we are debating. It doesn’t say specifically that women cannot lead. I agree that all scripture is God breathed. But submitting to an incorrect reading—like the idea that circoncision is required—can be...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Well, that’s what we are debating. It doesn’t say specifically that women cannot lead. I agree that all scripture is God breathed. But submitting to an incorrect reading—

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul’s clear statement in 1Ti 2:13-14 was that Adam

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul’s clear statement in 1Ti 2:13-14 was that Adam was not deceived though Genesis says he was right beside her and “heard her voice” meaning he was there to hear what she

1Ti 2:13-14 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen I’m confused. I mean Jesus was submissive. Paul was

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen I’m confused. I mean Jesus was submissive. Paul was submissive. So I guess it does end the argument for hierarchy.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-05

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain why women can be led by either but men seem to have ...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@notabreadliner @TheRealJamieKay @waltercool11 @TheLaurenChen That's the most misquoted and most abused out of context passage in the entire Bible. How about reading it in context? Paul's stated purpose is for Timothy to instruct certain people to st...

@notabreadliner @TheRealJamieKay @waltercool11 @TheLaurenChen That's the most misquoted and most abused out of context passage in the entire Bible. How about reading it in context? Paul's stated purpo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but y

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but your statement is not Biblically faithful. Where does the Bible ever say 'women cannot be pastors'?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@MattTravisBlog @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 So now you've expanded the discussion to what...the whole letter to the Romans? Um, ok. But I've got to get to sleep as I fly out of Korea early tomorrow. But again, your comment "They refuse to let Paul int...

@MattTravisBlog @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 So now you've expanded the discussion to what...the whole letter to the Romans? Um, ok. But I've got to get to sleep as I fly out of Korea early tomorrow. Bu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes through promise, not flesh. Ishmael was Abraham’s son, y...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes throug

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 72, He explicitly told them to not bring anything with them and to stay with someone who would feed them and give them lodging so they could share the gospel with that town. That is the context of wha...

@HvacRoar24011 When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 72, He explicitly told them to not bring anything with them and to stay with someone who would feed them and give them lodging so they could share the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 The context of Ro 2:28-29 is Jews who were preaching one thing and doing another: “you, therefore, who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one is not to steal, do you steal? You who say that one is not t...

@HvacRoar24011 The context of Ro 2:28-29 is Jews who were preaching one thing and doing another: “you, therefore, who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one is not to

Ro 2:28-29 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 The background of 2 John is itinerant teachers who traveled from house to house in the early church. Hospitality in that context often meant giving them lodging, food, and sometimes financial support, effectively endorsing them and hel...

@HvacRoar24011 The background of 2 John is itinerant teachers who traveled from house to house in the early church. Hospitality in that context often meant giving them lodging, food, and sometimes fin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 This passage does relate to the Judaizers, those who accepted Chr

@HvacRoar24011 This passage does relate to the Judaizers, those who accepted Christ as messiah but then tried to push Jewish fables and commandments of men on other believers which was a problem that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsmen according to the flesh...

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” ...

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who b

Ro 1:16 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor wil

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor will it save him. Again, you keep conflating salvation with God's purposes for Israel in the flesh which Paul clearly state

Ro 9:3-4 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 You are calling me a liar and condemning me to hell for a non-ess

@HvacRoar24011 You are calling me a liar and condemning me to hell for a non-essential interpretation of scripture. Is that the fruit of a Christian? Please tell me.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I coul...

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 The return from Babylon was a partial fulfillment. The exile to Babylon isn't considered as a scattering to the nations and the language in Ezekiel clearly has things that have not occurred as all Israel is not believing yet. If the c...

@HvacRoar24011 The return from Babylon was a partial fulfillment. The exile to Babylon isn't considered as a scattering to the nations and the language in Ezekiel clearly has things that have not occu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals That's right, salvation is not based on your ethnic origin, not based on being a physical descendent of Abraham, but based on belief in Christ. You keep repeating the things we agree on and ignoring the script...

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals That's right, salvation is not based on your ethnic origin, not based on being a physical descendent of Abraham, but based on belief in Christ. You keep repeat

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@MaxBlumenthal Actually, he means “I don’t believe in God but the history and ar

What is magical however is how some men seem to have an inherent defect—they can

@rfl3tcher @Toneskeee If context is key, then how can you ignore that Paul was writing about false teachers? And Paul speaks about women (pl) in 2:9-10 and then uses the singular in 2:11-12. He doesn’t say “women are not to teach…men” but refers to ‘...

@Grump_Old_Man @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Ah, hi again Grumpy! Paul said he was responding to things the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1). After quoting from their letter in 1Co 14:34-35, Paul writes: “What? came the word of God out from you ...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for 1Ti 3:11-15, you have to read this passage in context. Paul wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrines, not to stop anyone from teaching anyone else the truth. That...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 Regarding the requirements for elders, nowhere is it stated “must not be a female.” The requirements Paul lists are related to character, things you can change, not things you have no control over such as whether you are mal...

@Toneskeee @SuzanneLucy78 As for Is 3:12, this was after all the strong had been taken away. So even if it is referring to women and children, it would be the weak ones. There is a variant reading in the LXX which doesn’t mention women. Lastly that w...

@Contains_NaCl @LaughingBrook @Toneskeee That is also being misinterpreted as obviously the Bible isn’t teaching that universally all women can be deceived and men can’t or even that all women are more easily deceived than men. Paul uses Adam and Ev...

@parabellum7711 @DoulosDean68 This issue is not a matter of heresy. Heresy has t

@LaughingBrook @Toneskeee Only if you read it completely out of context, miss that Paul was writing this in a personal letter to Timothy, miss his grammatical cues showing he was referring to a specific deceived wife teaching heresy and don’t know wh...

@MarkAnthonyNel4 @rightresponsem As for “right at the door,” It’s like saying, “You can hear the knock; the arrival is certain and close.” In Hebrew thought, “at the door” often marks a decisive point as in Gen 4:7 (“sin is crouching at the door”) or...

@ronhenzel @sola_chad The law of noncontradiction applies within a defined system of premises, but the real question is whether your theological system actually reflects what Scripture teaches. Claiming other interpretations are inconsistent simply ...

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad And again you became a Calvinist under only the preachi

@REFINED_DIRT @sola_chad So you read Romans 3 and thought that there is no one who did good and didn’t wonder whether that idea would mean Paul was quoting Ps 14 out of context? Was your pastor or those you were listening to (aka the commentaries) n...

@ronhenzel @sola_chad So you can say with a completely straight face that there

@sola_chad You become a Calvinist by reading commentaries and systematic theolog

This is faulty interpretation. Paul is quoting from the Corinthians: “Now concer

@Truth_matters20 The problem is that this is a misreading of the text. Paul said he is responding to what the Corinthians wrote to him: “Now concerning the things about which you wrote…” (1Co 7:1) After quoting them, Paul writes: “What? came the wor...

@sanderson1611 You cut off the first part of verse 14 which says that they are s

@dalepartridge What’s interesting is that the Bible commends strong liquor (Dt 14:26) and seems generally ok with alcohol consumption (Jesus producing large quantities of wine after people had been drinking for days). Yes, drunkenness is a sin. Glutt...

@LifeGetsButter @grok @hmcrem If Barak lacked courage, have you considered what

@JanZizkasburner @rightresponsem Well, Heb 11:32 settles the question: “And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets…” Barak is listed among those who “through f...

@BeRegener8ed @rightresponsem Strange, that’s not how the author to the Hebrews

@SKArmsCo @Eric_Conn @Brian_Sauve Sounds like you are talking about two differen

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Don’t teach false doctrine is what it says. A woman

That women can’t teach truth to men or lead. https://t.co/IhwasgSeT4

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Finding an interpretation that makes sense of all the details in the context, the grammar and the rest of scripture is not looking for loopholes. I prefer the scripture over man’s infallible interpretation. If you want to...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen You are using a similar argument to what I am except I am combining the clear reading “I do not permit a woman to teach” with the context about stopping false teaching and drawing the only reasonable logical conclusion. I...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Here are the facts: - Both knew the commandment and the consequences of not obeying. - Adam was right beside Eve and heard her voice speaking to the serpent. - Paul says Adam wasn’t deceived and linked deception with the t...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen As I already explained, Paul is describing a deceive

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Curious…who was Paul speaking to in the following? W

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Well, that’s what we are debating. It doesn’t say specifically that women cannot lead. I agree that all scripture is God breathed. But submitting to an incorrect reading—like the idea that circoncision is required—can be...

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Paul’s clear statement in 1Ti 2:13-14 was that Adam

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen I’m confused. I mean Jesus was submissive. Paul was

@JohnRayKite @TheLaurenChen Leading is demonstrating by example as Jesus said that no Christian is to ‘Lord it over’ another. So it’s not about a position of authority over others. Can you explain why women can be led by either but men seem to have ...

@notabreadliner @TheRealJamieKay @waltercool11 @TheLaurenChen That's the most misquoted and most abused out of context passage in the entire Bible. How about reading it in context? Paul's stated purpose is for Timothy to instruct certain people to st...

@TheLaurenChen I know nothing of this woman in the OP you are replying to, but y

@MattTravisBlog @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 So now you've expanded the discussion to what...the whole letter to the Romans? Um, ok. But I've got to get to sleep as I fly out of Korea early tomorrow. But again, your comment "They refuse to let Paul int...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes through promise, not flesh. Ishmael was Abraham’s son, y...

@HvacRoar24011 When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 72, He explicitly told them to not bring anything with them and to stay with someone who would feed them and give them lodging so they could share the gospel with that town. That is the context of wha...

@HvacRoar24011 The context of Ro 2:28-29 is Jews who were preaching one thing and doing another: “you, therefore, who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one is not to steal, do you steal? You who say that one is not t...

@HvacRoar24011 The background of 2 John is itinerant teachers who traveled from house to house in the early church. Hospitality in that context often meant giving them lodging, food, and sometimes financial support, effectively endorsing them and hel...

@HvacRoar24011 This passage does relate to the Judaizers, those who accepted Chr

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsmen according to the flesh...

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” ...

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor wil

@HvacRoar24011 You are calling me a liar and condemning me to hell for a non-ess

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I coul...

@HvacRoar24011 The return from Babylon was a partial fulfillment. The exile to Babylon isn't considered as a scattering to the nations and the language in Ezekiel clearly has things that have not occurred as all Israel is not believing yet. If the c...

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals That's right, salvation is not based on your ethnic origin, not based on being a physical descendent of Abraham, but based on belief in Christ. You keep repeating the things we agree on and ignoring the script...

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