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@jeanlucjocund The thing is that Paul said his concern was not who was preaching

@jeanlucjocund The thing is that Paul said his concern was not who was preaching or even if their motives were pure but that the message was preached. How then could he say that in the church he won’t

@ChaseLutron Paul killed believers because he was deceived…he was like Eve in th

@ChaseLutron Paul killed believers because he was deceived…he was like Eve in that way, not Adam. Shepherds that fail to protect but feed God’s people to wolves were removed. https://t.co/CWJuYvVR8S

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 But then who are the 'they'? It is 'she will...if they <do things>'? What if these women were weaving jewelry into their hair to try to show who to trust because of the false teaching spreading. Paul didn't want them ...

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 But then who are the 'they'? It is 'she will...if they <do things>'? What if these women were weaving jewelry into their hair to try to show who to trust because of th

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 FYI: The only way to make sense of the 'she' and the 'they' is that the 'she' is a particular wife and the 'they' is her and her husband. It doesn't say 'they' will be saved because her husband is not deceived, just like Ada...

@BronWen727104 @Paula_333 FYI: The only way to make sense of the 'she' and the 'they' is that the 'she' is a particular wife and the 'they' is her and her husband. It doesn't say 'they' will be saved

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Jesus also didn't choose a Gentile as one of his 12 ap

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Jesus also didn't choose a Gentile as one of his 12 apostles. So by the same logic you are using regarding women, how is any leader in the church allowed to be a Gentile?

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 At any rate, thanks for the conversation. Thanks for u

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 At any rate, thanks for the conversation. Thanks for using mute and not block.

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 The text says: "She [singular] will be saved [future]

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 The text says: "She [singular] will be saved [future] through the childbearing [definite noun] if they [plural] (do something...)" Childbearing is not a verb.

@Paula_333 No, it's not false doctrine in the sense of primary matters. Just bec

@Paula_333 No, it's not false doctrine in the sense of primary matters. Just because you have a different view on a secondary matter doesn't mean we classify every error as 'false doctrine.'

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 That's correct. I guess we agree on something :-) But

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 That's correct. I guess we agree on something :-) But I wasn't appealing to authority. One doesn't know what is true by appealing to one person over another.

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 What happens to women who don't bear children? Can the

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 What happens to women who don't bear children? Can they be saved?

@Paula_333 The fruit you have seen is of someone who exposits scripture in a way

@Paula_333 The fruit you have seen is of someone who exposits scripture in a way that makes sense of the context, the audience, the grammar and all details So because I disagree with your husband, th

Mt 7:16-21 debate

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Interesting way of discerning and interpreting scriptu

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Interesting way of discerning and interpreting scripture. What if your husband and I disagree?

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Yes, and that meaning is discovered by the context! These are not merely idioms, but sometimes Jesus says things like “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” which isn’t an idiom but you can’t take the “plain me...

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Yes, and that meaning is discovered by the context! These are not merely idioms, but sometimes Jesus says things like “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” whi

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Of course I understand how Jesus uses stories! Listen, the teachers and scribes said that Jesus was speaking of the literal temple. The disciples thought Jesus was speaking about bread when talking about the yeast ...

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Of course I understand how Jesus uses stories! Listen, the teachers and scribes said that Jesus was speaking of the literal temple. The disciples thought Jesus was

@Paula_333 Take the arguments I have provided in their context and prove them wr

@Paula_333 Take the arguments I have provided in their context and prove them wrong. Please. Just do it.

@Paula_333 No, that’s not how this works. You cannot assess my motives based on

@Paula_333 No, that’s not how this works. You cannot assess my motives based on what you see. That is not judging rightly because you cannot see inside me. You don’t have access to my mind. Only I and

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Paula, you’ve said yourself that women are more easily

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Paula, you’ve said yourself that women are more easily deceived. Given that belief, how can you be sure you aren’t deceived on this subject—and that I, a man, whom you believ

@Paula_333 You don’t know my motives and you are not God, so I suggest to stick

@Paula_333 You don’t know my motives and you are not God, so I suggest to stick with facts that you can easily discern. Let’s talk about ‘plain meaning’, shall we? Because whatever that means it cann

@Paula_333 Well, Paula, I would like you to actually walk through and show where

@Paula_333 Well, Paula, I would like you to actually walk through and show where I am twisting scripture. This has nothing to do with what I like or don't like.

@Paula_333 The facts are that Paul's description links the time sequence order of creation with deception. So something about the order and how he prepared Adam to guard the garden ensured he wouldn't be deceived, whereas Eve being the last thing cre...

@Paula_333 The facts are that Paul's description links the time sequence order of creation with deception. So something about the order and how he prepared Adam to guard the garden ensured he wouldn't

@Paula_333 Hm. If that's the case, why would Paul say that he was worried an entire church could be deceived like Eve? When I was growing up, I could much more easily get away with a lie with my dad than my mom. So even that experience seems to sugge...

@Paula_333 Hm. If that's the case, why would Paul say that he was worried an entire church could be deceived like Eve? When I was growing up, I could much more easily get away with a lie with my dad t

@Paula_333 I go into all of these details and demonstrate clearly that Paul is q

@Paula_333 I go into all of these details and demonstrate clearly that Paul is quoting and refuting the Corinthians in 1Co 14:34-35. https://t.co/NGWOMj1n8o

1Co 14:34-35 general

1Co 14:34-35 1Co 7:1 debate

@Paula_333 No, that's not it. Paul is clearly responding to things that the Corinthians wrote (see 1Co 7:1), but there are not quotation marks in the Greek manuscript, so you have to infer the quotes. 1Co 14:34-35 clearly stand out from the rest of t...

@Paula_333 No, that's not it. Paul is clearly responding to things that the Corinthians wrote (see 1Co 7:1), but there are not quotation marks in the Greek manuscript, so you have to infer the quotes.

@Paula_333 The word didaskein (ie. to teach) is there, but why do you think it has to do with teaching truth when the letter was about stopping false teaching? Also, authentein doesn't mean authority in a good sense. That word is extremely rare and ...

@Paula_333 The word didaskein (ie. to teach) is there, but why do you think it has to do with teaching truth when the letter was about stopping false teaching? Also, authentein doesn't mean authority

@Paula_333 Why shouldn't a woman teach truth to a man? Can men not handle truth

@Paula_333 Why shouldn't a woman teach truth to a man? Can men not handle truth coming from a woman? What is wrong with men that they can't stand to hear God's word and truth spoken by a woman?

@Paula_333 Also, that 1Ti 2:12-14 applies to teaching in the church isn't what is being stated. Paul is writing Timothy to deal with strange (ie. false) teaching, not to stop the teaching of truth by anyone. Nowhere is 'authentein' being used positiv...

@Paula_333 Also, that 1Ti 2:12-14 applies to teaching in the church isn't what is being stated. Paul is writing Timothy to deal with strange (ie. false) teaching, not to stop the teaching of truth by

1Ti 2:12-14 general

@Paula_333 That rule you state about "when the church recognizes young males to

@Paula_333 That rule you state about "when the church recognizes young males to have matured into manhood" is nowhere found in scripture. It also happens at different times in different places and cul

@Paula_333 Can women teach male children? At what age can they no longer teach t

@Paula_333 Can women teach male children? At what age can they no longer teach them? I challenge you to support the idea from the Bible that "preaching is to be done by qualified elders, ie, exclusive

@Paula_333 So teaching true doctrine about Christ is not allowed? Preaching in s

@Paula_333 So teaching true doctrine about Christ is not allowed? Preaching in scripture was only ever done towards unbelievers. In the church, it was teaching, exhortation, edification, encouragement

Imagine Paul rejoicing when Christ is proclaimed even under false pretences, but then stopping women from doing so. Paul's rejoicing that in every way Christ is preached doesn't make sense of the idea of women being prevented from preaching Christ b...

Imagine Paul rejoicing when Christ is proclaimed even under false pretences, but then stopping women from doing so. Paul's rejoicing that in every way Christ is preached doesn't make sense of the ide

@CoreyJMahler Who is siding with anyone against Jesus? Can you show me where the

@CoreyJMahler Who is siding with anyone against Jesus? Can you show me where the apostle Paul treated the Jews like you do?

@thebrighttunnel @Rach4Patriarchy No, that is completely false. Paul nowhere forbids women from serving as elders! 1Ti 3 uses masculine forms in the grammar but in Koine Greek, the male form can be used when intending either men or women. And Is 3:...

@thebrighttunnel @Rach4Patriarchy No, that is completely false. Paul nowhere forbids women from serving as elders! 1Ti 3 uses masculine forms in the grammar but in Koine Greek, the male form can be us

Is 3:12 debate

@LamoralOfEgmont @CoreyJMahler Paul’s comments in Rom 11 were after the coming of the Messiah. Paul didn’t curse the Jews like you. He treated them preferentially concerning the preaching of the gospel and when they refused to believe he prayed for t...

@LamoralOfEgmont @CoreyJMahler Paul’s comments in Rom 11 were after the coming of the Messiah. Paul didn’t curse the Jews like you. He treated them preferentially concerning the preaching of the gospe

@EricisAmerican @Protestia Also, the passages you listed about the requirements for elders do not say that an elder must not be a woman. The fact that they both use an idiom, directly translated ‘one woman man’ or ‘one wife husband’ is an idiom. When...

@EricisAmerican @Protestia Also, the passages you listed about the requirements for elders do not say that an elder must not be a woman. The fact that they both use an idiom, directly translated ‘one

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@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 What was the point that Paul was making? If it wasn’t that husbands are the only ones to love their wives like Christ, then maybe wives are also not the only ones to submit to their husbands…but husbands also to their...

@LiamHarperBlack @autocorrect2_0 What was the point that Paul was making? If it wasn’t that husbands are the only ones to love their wives like Christ, then maybe wives are also not the only ones to s

Eph 5:21 debate

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@jdogmac117830 @subq Yes. Which is absolutely not what Calvinism teaches. I argu

@jdogmac117830 @subq Yes. Which is absolutely not what Calvinism teaches. I argue Calvinists misread Rom 3:10-12 taking it out of its original context from Paul’s quote from Ps 14 and 53.

Rom 3:10-12 debate

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@Truth_matters20 The apostle Paul is quoting from Ps 14 where it is clear from t

@Truth_matters20 The apostle Paul is quoting from Ps 14 where it is clear from the context that “no one” is “not one of those fools who says in his heart, ‘there is no God.’” Paul is not taking Ps 14

@darylsterk I’ve heard this one being proposed many times. Yet Paul is actually using this wording to explain how ‘she’ (ie. ‘the woman’ of v14 who cannot be Eve as Eve is dead and nothing can be done in the present to affect her salvation) will be s...

@darylsterk I’ve heard this one being proposed many times. Yet Paul is actually using this wording to explain how ‘she’ (ie. ‘the woman’ of v14 who cannot be Eve as Eve is dead and nothing can be done

@darylsterk Paul’s letter to Timothy is explicitly to stop strange doctrines clouding the gospel of salvation which is by faith from spreading at the church in Ephesus. While it is certainly possible that more is going on here as you describe, I am n...

@darylsterk Paul’s letter to Timothy is explicitly to stop strange doctrines clouding the gospel of salvation which is by faith from spreading at the church in Ephesus. While it is certainly possible

Solomon 12:6 1Ti 2:12 general

@darylsterk In Wisdom of Solomon 12:6, authentas is used (the accusative plural noun form), whereas in 1Ti 2:12, authentein is a present active infinitive verb form. They are related, and I do agree with you that there is a sense of murder here which...

@darylsterk In Wisdom of Solomon 12:6, authentas is used (the accusative plural noun form), whereas in 1Ti 2:12, authentein is a present active infinitive verb form. They are related, and I do agree w

@darylsterk Sorry, I just saw this now. There are certainly false teachings and myths that were coming in. Paul’s explicitly statements suggest Jewish myths: “…myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to useless speculation rather than advanc...

@darylsterk Sorry, I just saw this now. There are certainly false teachings and myths that were coming in. Paul’s explicitly statements suggest Jewish myths: “…myths and endless genealogies, which g

@____Alice_White @YerFavColonizer This confirms that the gospel Paul preached wa

@____Alice_White @YerFavColonizer This confirms that the gospel Paul preached was consistent with that of the apostles as nothing needed to be corrected or added. So do you reject all the apostles’ te

@____Alice_White @YerFavColonizer If you are a Bible believing Christian, how is

@____Alice_White @YerFavColonizer If you are a Bible believing Christian, how is it that you reject half the New Testament having been written by Paul?

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii No, you cannot interpret them any way you want. The context always determines meaning. But one must recognize that establishing a doctrine on a hapax logomena is not a good idea. In this case, the English tran...

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii No, you cannot interpret them any way you want. The context *always* determines meaning. But one must recognize that establishing a doctrine on a hapax logomena

@____Alice_White Hm. Well, Jesus was single and was very fruitful. Imagine if al

@____Alice_White Hm. Well, Jesus was single and was very fruitful. Imagine if all became Christians…wouldn’t that be enough? Isn’t that being fruitful? So Paul is advocating for increased fruitfulness

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Peter was married. Paul wasn’t. But Paul wishes that all people were like him being able to focus their entire lives on serving Christ. However, you can obviously still serve Christ even being married an...

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Peter was married. Paul wasn’t. But Paul wishes that all people were like him being able to focus their entire lives on serving Christ. However, you can

@____Alice_White I don’t think Paul specified skin color at all. The same advice

@____Alice_White I don’t think Paul specified skin color at all. The same advice applies irrespective of your ethnicity.

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Where did you get that idea from? Paul’s letter was addressed “to the church of God which is at Corinth” (1Co 1:2). Further, his comments in 1Co 7:7 show he is speaking to “all people”: “Yet I wish that...

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Where did you get that idea from? Paul’s letter was addressed “to the church of God which is at Corinth” (1Co 1:2). Further, his comments in 1Co 7:7 show

1Co 1:2 1Co 7:7 question

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Please, I’m all ears—what’s the c

@BronzAgeLarper @KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem Please, I’m all ears—what’s the context? Please interpret Paul’s meaning for all of us.

@KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem The apostle Paul’s writing—scripture—is the ‘blac

@KevinCanale24 @rightresponsem The apostle Paul’s writing—scripture—is the ‘black pill response’?