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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@E_C_Onugha @tolusefrancis @Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi I’m not looking for your confirmation. Mutual submission is all over the New Testament. 1.Phil 2:3-4 - “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above...

@E_C_Onugha @tolusefrancis @Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi I’m not looking for your confirmation. Mutual submission is all over the New Testament. 1.Phil 2:3-4 - “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or va

Phil 2:3-4 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@tolusefrancis @Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi However, when someone lays their life down for others, this is the ultimate act of submission. "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than you...

@tolusefrancis @Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi However, when someone lays their life down for others, this is the ultimate act of submission. "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humili

Phil 2:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@Solomon_Buchi Being submitted to someone is doing something they want or need i

@Solomon_Buchi Being submitted to someone is doing something they want or need instead of what you want or need. https://t.co/rFutuQOkTI

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi He said "A Christian man was not instructed to submit to his wife" and yet this passage says "the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does"⎯If the husband does not submit to his wife, then t...

@Zeeleciouz @Solomon_Buchi He said "A Christian man was not instructed to submit to his wife" and yet this passage says "the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does"⎯

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@Solomon_Buchi Verse 22 doesn’t have the Greek word “submit” in it. It is in ve

@Solomon_Buchi Verse 22 doesn’t have the Greek word “submit” in it. It is in verse 21 and implied in v22. https://t.co/dTFPU7uoFX

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-30

@Solomon_Buchi There’s a verse that explicitly calls the man to also submit to his wife: "The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife...

@Solomon_Buchi There’s a verse that explicitly calls the man to also submit to his wife: "The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does

1 Cor 7:4 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-28

“The instructions for mutual submission and sacrificial love in Ephesians 5:1–2

“The instructions for mutual submission and sacrificial love in Ephesians 5:1–2 and 21 are given to all Paul’s whole audience, to men and to women. Submission isn’t just for wives, sacrificial love is

Ephesians 5:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-24

@Based_Byzantine @HabitualLinest @Booksbyjess__ @smashbaals Paul is saying that this specific deceived woman who is teaching false doctrine is to receive instruction quietly with submissiveness. She is to be corrected and to submit to correction. P...

@Based_Byzantine @HabitualLinest @Booksbyjess__ @smashbaals Paul is saying that this specific deceived woman who is teaching false doctrine is to receive instruction quietly with submissiveness. She

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-19

@pauldirks @PerinDana I am glad that you agree there is mutual submission as that is there in the text. As for the asymmetry, I certainly see it also. I think the reason for the asymmetry is because of the cultural asymmetry that’s already there wh...

@pauldirks @PerinDana I am glad that you agree there is mutual submission as that is there in the text. As for the asymmetry, I certainly see it also. I think the reason for the asymmetry is because

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-19

@pauldirks @PerinDana But my point is not that Sarah doesn't submit to Abraham,

@pauldirks @PerinDana But my point is not that Sarah doesn't submit to Abraham, but that they have a mututally submissive relationship.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-18

@jaginger @godlywomanhood If the instruction is to submit to one another, how ca

@jaginger @godlywomanhood If the instruction is to submit to one another, how can it not apply to husbands not submitting to wives in some way? In fact, if a husband is to lay down his life for his w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-15

@William_E_Wolfe And it's my duty to inform you that your confession is needlessly dividing Jesus' church. "Reform their practice and submit [to] the Bible" ⎯ you are asking them to submit to something we are permitted to disagree on, not the Bibl...

@William_E_Wolfe And it's my duty to inform you that your confession is needlessly dividing Jesus' church. "Reform their practice and submit [to] the Bible" ⎯ you are asking them to submit to somet

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-14

@JohnPiper Judgment begins with the church. “For it is time for judgment to beg

@JohnPiper Judgment begins with the church. “For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of

1 Pet 4:17 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-14

@godlywomanhood Ok, but the husband and wife both submit to each other. Submit

@godlywomanhood Ok, but the husband and wife both submit to each other. Submit is in Eph 5:21, not in Eph 5:22. https://t.co/Z58JiQI6JM https://t.co/T5r9cgv2Xx

Eph 5:21 Eph 5:22 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-11

@rabinahakin Yes, wives should submit to their husbands⎯not as owners or overlords, but as unto the Lord⎯with that same love and affection. But the "submit" is actually in verse 21: "...and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ." ...

@rabinahakin Yes, wives should submit to their husbands⎯not as owners or overlords, but as unto the Lord⎯with that same love and affection. But the "submit" is actually in verse 21: "...and subject y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-09

@sleeper_awoke @emilykmay Adam wasn’t deceived because he was created first and observed God creating that tree from the dust..the one that the forbidden fruit came from. Eve didn’t experience that. Her deception doesn’t come from her gender or bec...

@sleeper_awoke @emilykmay Adam wasn’t deceived because he was created first and observed God creating that tree from the dust..the one that the forbidden fruit came from. Eve didn’t experience that.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-31

There should be no “head” leadership or those who command to obey them. All (no

There should be no “head” leadership or those who command to obey them. All (not just leaders) are given the authority to call others to obey Christ. https://t.co/rFutuQOkTI

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-28

@SonicReformati1 @CherylSchatz Sonic, the point is that God didn’t predestine th

@SonicReformati1 @CherylSchatz Sonic, the point is that God didn’t predestine their evil. He predestined Jesus to die knowing precisely what manner of death He would endure. The plan was that Jesus

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-28

@DST_QA The NASB has "submit" in italics because this is how the translators have decided to indicate that a word is not present in the Greek. κεφαλὴ (kephalē) can mean the head part of the body, the source of a stream like the headwaters, the corne...

@DST_QA The NASB has "submit" in italics because this is how the translators have decided to indicate that a word is not present in the Greek. κεφαλὴ (kephalē) can mean the head part of the body, the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-28

@DST_QA Yes, when we submit to others, we are looking out for their interests above our own. We set aside what we want and we do what someone else wants. Husbands have a calling to do that too. "I believe that when a man submits to his wife, he is...

@DST_QA Yes, when we submit to others, we are looking out for their interests above our own. We set aside what we want and we do what someone else wants. Husbands have a calling to do that too. "I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-28

@Andrew5tuff @PastorMark Totally tracking with you in agreement if you remove “r

@Andrew5tuff @PastorMark Totally tracking with you in agreement if you remove “roles.” What specific roles are you referring to? The role of decision maker for the husband and the role of submittor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-26

@Rach4Patriarchy @ABDada Well, every Christian is called to be subservient ("Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" Eph 5:21 NIV). And keeping home and raising children is a commendable job. I think we forget that you can do a business ...

@Rach4Patriarchy @ABDada Well, every Christian is called to be subservient ("Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ" Eph 5:21 NIV). And keeping home and raising children is a commendable j

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-26

@harmonizedgrace Also a great day for your husband to submit to you in the fear

@harmonizedgrace Also a great day for your husband to submit to you in the fear of Christ (Eph 5:21)! https://t.co/k3OyXdEihu

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-26

@DST_QA When a woman is treated like property, a means to obtaining children or as a slave to keep things in order for the husband, she doesn’t submit to him fully like to Christ. We are all called to submit one to another out of fear of Christ. Ep...

@DST_QA When a woman is treated like property, a means to obtaining children or as a slave to keep things in order for the husband, she doesn’t submit to him fully like to Christ. We are all called t

Eph 5:22 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-25

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica It doesn’t need to say that here. If everyone submits to everyone, then we know that Eph 5 cannot be encouraging one to rule over the other or a gender hierarchy. Everything goes back to Genesis, and there w...

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica It doesn’t need to say that here. If everyone submits to everyone, then we know that Eph 5 cannot be encouraging one to rule over the other or a gender hierar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-22

@pauldirks @KaeleyT In your second lecture on Sex and Gender, you suggest that gender reflects the Trinity in that the Son submits to the Father and the Father loves the Son (an almost exact quote of (this is nearly word for word what Bruce Ware says...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT In your second lecture on Sex and Gender, you suggest that gender reflects the Trinity in that the Son submits to the Father and the Father loves the Son (an almost exact quote of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I think I may not have stated what you were meaning properly. Sorry if I misrepresented you. What I hear you saying is that both women and men submit directly to the Lord, but while husbands may take out the garbage or go get a ...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I think I may not have stated what you were meaning properly. Sorry if I misrepresented you. What I hear you saying is that both women and men submit directly to the Lord, but wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT You make it seem that husbands and wives don’t *equally* submit to the Lord. In other words, you appear to be saying that a woman has a mediator between herself and the Lord, her husband, and that she submits to the Lord through h...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT You make it seem that husbands and wives don’t *equally* submit to the Lord. In other words, you appear to be saying that a woman has a mediator between herself and the Lord, her h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wives submitting to their husbands is in the context of the

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Wives submitting to their husbands is in the context of the body submitting one to another, leaders to congregants included. Submitting is not about authority structures but an at

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf It’s tricky to write something comprehensively and concisely that captures everything. Here’s my attempt! The husband uses his gifts to serve his wife (as does the wife to her husband). Christ’s example of setti...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf It’s tricky to write something comprehensively and concisely that captures everything. Here’s my attempt! The husband uses his gifts to serve his wife (as does th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck You missed: “And I submit to her as a groo

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck You missed: “And I submit to her as a groom.” If you think I’m advocating for “a power-brokers entitled, resentful manipulation” I can see why you are upset at m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@prot_zoomer @ErnestVanceJr @TomBuck So the next verses apply to the church? How would Moses’ audience have known this? Deuteronomy 30:7–10 (NIV): 7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8 You will ...

@prot_zoomer @ErnestVanceJr @TomBuck So the next verses apply to the church? How would Moses’ audience have known this? Deuteronomy 30:7–10 (NIV): 7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on yo

Deuteronomy 30:7 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@AJG797 @TomBuck Yes, God gave "man" dominion, the "male and female" man (aka mankind). True, most people are not gifted to properly handle authority, but it has nothing to do with one's gender or how much muscle they have...or how angry they can ge...

@AJG797 @TomBuck Yes, God gave "man" dominion, the "male and female" man (aka mankind). True, most people are not gifted to properly handle authority, but it has nothing to do with one's gender or ho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@William_E_Wolfe I think it is definitely a red flag. 🚩 But this is a secondar

@William_E_Wolfe I think it is definitely a red flag. 🚩 But this is a secondary issue so it would depend on how divisive they are about it. Remember…Jesus’ example was to submit himself and serve n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-04

@ronhenzel @YouHaveFought Does Deut 30:6 not apply to the people in the time of Moses who were commanded to love and obey God or else He would judge them? I believe it does. This is how we see those like Caleb of which scripture says "But as for My...

@ronhenzel @YouHaveFought Does Deut 30:6 not apply to the people in the time of Moses who were commanded to love and obey God or else He would judge them? I believe it does. This is how we see those

Deut 30:6 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-23

@BogdanOancea77 We see the answer from Jesus in Mark 7:1-13. I would think that anything that prevents people from doing what God said. In this case, preventing women from speaking and preventing women from learning prevented them from obeying what...

@BogdanOancea77 We see the answer from Jesus in Mark 7:1-13. I would think that anything that prevents people from doing what God said. In this case, preventing women from speaking and preventing wo

Mark 7:1-13 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@BarakWatson @justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii To subject yourself to one another simply means to submit to and serve one another's needs. Jesus demonstrated this when He humbled Himself to become a man and die on our behalf, washing the feet of Judas ...

@BarakWatson @justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii To subject yourself to one another simply means to submit to and serve one another's needs. Jesus demonstrated this when He humbled Himself to become a man

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek I don't disagree with you, but we're talking about what Paul wrote and you seem to be avoiding admitting things I pointed out from Paul's text that are right in front of you. Once you ad...

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek I don't disagree with you, but we're talking about what Paul wrote and you seem to be avoiding admitting things I pointed out from Paul's

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Wait, so you agre

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Wait, so you agree that the word submit is not after "wives" in verse 22? So you admit that this isn't some sort of hierarchical arrange

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Verse 22 doesn’t have the verb submit in it. Check it out. So if verse 21 is true then verse 22 CANNOT mean that wives are like the slaves of their husbands. That’s actually how the cu...

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Verse 22 doesn’t have the verb submit in it. Check it out. So if verse 21 is true then verse 22 CANNOT mean that wives are like the sla

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Huh? Jezebel? How does she seek authority over men? Ephesians 5:21 says “submit to one another in the fear of Christ.” That means men submitting to women and women submitting to men. ...

@LauraRicha42528 @_nomadic_soul @LifeWithoutLack @DrFrankTurek Huh? Jezebel? How does she seek authority over men? Ephesians 5:21 says “submit to one another in the fear of Christ.” That means men

Ephesians 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

@jmmooreo @brmorris “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” (Ephesi

@jmmooreo @brmorris “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” (Ephesians 5:21, NIV). This most certainly means men to women and women to men, leaders to congregants and congregants to lead

Ephesians 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

4/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 3) 1 Timothy 2:11-12 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 4-1. Paul then switches to the singular form in verse 11 (singular feminine) when he gives the command that "a woman" must receive instruction in quietness and in full submission to...

4/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 3) 1 Timothy 2:11-12 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 4-1. Paul then switches to the singular form in verse 11 (singular feminine) when he gives the command that "a woman" must receive

1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:11-12 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-18

@TravelerChurch I think source fits with the description in Eph 5:22-25.  As I was studying this, I noticed that the NASB showed “submit” as in “Wives, submit…” in italics, which means it wasn’t in the original.  I looked at the NET (New English Tran...

@TravelerChurch I think source fits with the description in Eph 5:22-25.  As I was studying this, I noticed that the NASB showed “submit” as in “Wives, submit…” in italics, which means it wasn’t in th

Eph 5:22-25 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-14

@RegManMinistry @MikeWingerii I’m egalitarian and I’m attempting to obey scriptu

@RegManMinistry @MikeWingerii I’m egalitarian and I’m attempting to obey scripture as faithfully as possible. Recognize that this is not a matter of sin and that these passages are difficult for good

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-22

@brmorris Seems like mutual submission was not the narrative they wanted from th

@brmorris Seems like mutual submission was not the narrative they wanted from the Apostle Paul.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris 2/ But since He gave it up it had to be give

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris 2/ But since He gave it up it had to be given back to Him later. And the Father listens to the Son’s will and the Son listens to the father’s will. There is clear

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks We are not to unnecessarily divide the body. It doesn’t mean that we cannot believe different things. For example, as an egal, I can submit to comp leadership but I know 3 churches where I asked the p...

@Mcnerd8 @William_E_Wolfe @sbcamendment @9Marks We are not to unnecessarily divide the body. It doesn’t mean that we cannot believe different things. For example, as an egal, I can submit to comp le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris 3/ “The second type of submission (type II) is one that comes from personal relationships and is often based on love or compassion. In this second type, submission is the voluntary giving up of power in order to t...

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris 3/ “The second type of submission (type II) is one that comes from personal relationships and is often based on love or compassion. In this second type, submission

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris Padgett says “(type I) comes from the realm

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @brmorris Padgett says “(type I) comes from the realm of political and military struggle. This type of submission is obedience to an external authority, which can be volunta

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