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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-20

@TarienCole @TWFtrish @SimonReye @ronhenzel There’s nothing explicitly in the text telling us that Paul appointed her to take his letter because she could explain it, so perhaps he gave it to her because she was already planning to go to Rome. We don...

@TarienCole @TWFtrish @SimonReye @ronhenzel There’s nothing explicitly in the text telling us that Paul appointed her to take his letter because she could explain it, so perhaps he gave it to her beca

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-20

@TarienCole @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @SimonReye I tend to agree that we don’t know whether Phoebe explained the letter to the Romans because it is not explicitly stated. However, the fact that you admit she is a deaconess is intriguing because 1Ti 3:12 s...

@TarienCole @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @SimonReye I tend to agree that we don’t know whether Phoebe explained the letter to the Romans because it is not explicitly stated. However, the fact that you admit s

1Ti 3:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@Jason93044787 @LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jason's expert assessment of me: 1. empty 2. prideful 3. foolish 4. worthy of roasting 5. is ignorant of Greek 6. eisegetes texts 7. swallower of 🐪 8. doesn’t read with understanding 9. misrepresents texts 10. f...

@Jason93044787 @LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jason's expert assessment of me: 1. empty 2. prideful 3. foolish 4. worthy of roasting 5. is ignorant of Greek 6. eisegetes texts 7. swallower of 🐪 8. doesn’t re

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Because the church did something doesn’t mean it is a pre

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Because the church did something doesn’t mean it is a prescription. Only Jewish males presided—should we require Jewish male leaders?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@Jason93044787 @LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel You are certainly free to call me empty, p

@Jason93044787 @LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel You are certainly free to call me empty, prideful, foolish and roast me all you wish and call me ignorant of the Greek (anything else?), but the only way you will

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz Or it makes it about hierarchies of authority which

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz Or it makes it about hierarchies of authority which completely misses Jesus will for His church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@DiscoverJesus3 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz I wouldn’t say that last statement as many have come to Christ in patriarchal and complementarian churches. As an egalitarian I have no problem working with complementarians who sincerely think this is the...

@DiscoverJesus3 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz I wouldn’t say that last statement as many have come to Christ in patriarchal and complementarian churches. As an egalitarian I have no problem working wit

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too and how God had to show them that the Gentiles were ...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @NBidnz Ok. But every single believer already has the authority given by Christ himself to teach all nations everything that Jesus commanded and taught his disciples. Perhaps you mean that a person is recognized as sound in the ...

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @NBidnz Ok. But every single believer already has the authority given by Christ himself to teach all nations everything that Jesus commanded and taught his disciples. Perhaps you

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @NBidnz Remind me again—what exactly does an “authoritative

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @NBidnz Remind me again—what exactly does an “authoritative teaching position” look like? So this is the office of speaker who speaks with authority and all who hear obey?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-15

@Lazicus520 @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals Not only did priests have to be men but also Jewish and of only one tribe (Levite) and they had to be without defect. Everything you are referring to is before the start of the church, before the resurrection a...

@Lazicus520 @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals Not only did priests have to be men but also Jewish and of only one tribe (Levite) and they had to be without defect. Everything you are referring to is before

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Egalitarian

@btgolz @VoicesHead100 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Egalitarianism is the same thing as not requiring leaders to be Jewish males. If you have a Gentile pastor, then you would be follo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Hi Kim. So is a woman allowed to

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad Hi Kim. So is a woman allowed to teach the Bible each Sunday so long as she isn’t called an elder or pastor or bishop? What part of pastoring is off lim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-11

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz Clearly Paul highlights how Phoebe

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz Clearly Paul highlights how Phoebe is a leader of others calling others to support her as she serves others. You do that for leaders. https://t.co/IgMCuMs

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-11

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz It has been clearly demonstrated given Priscilla teaching Apollos. And a reading that makes sense of the grammar, the specific purpose of this personal letter to Timothy and the contextual details like s...

@ronhenzel @TWFtrish @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz It has been clearly demonstrated given Priscilla teaching Apollos. And a reading that makes sense of the grammar, the specific purpose of this personal l

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-11

@ScottCross_8 Yes, another good point. Or given things started with the Jews (th

@ScottCross_8 Yes, another good point. Or given things started with the Jews (the apostles were all Jewish), we should have only Jewish pastors and leaders.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-10

@ronhenzel @NBidnz @SindlandOz34748 @TWFtrish You are right that we are not told that Phoebe is sent to exegete the text, but neither was it stated that she was simply sent to hand over the letter. Just because she was a deacon doesn’t mean that she ...

@ronhenzel @NBidnz @SindlandOz34748 @TWFtrish You are right that we are not told that Phoebe is sent to exegete the text, but neither was it stated that she was simply sent to hand over the letter. Ju

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-10

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz Paul wasn’t writing Romans to an individual or just the leadership, but the whole congregation. He was dealing with issues surrounding the relationship of the law, the gospel and Christian liberty and iss...

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @SindlandOz34748 @NBidnz Paul wasn’t writing Romans to an individual or just the leadership, but the whole congregation. He was dealing with issues surrounding the relationship of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@TBush1689 @DaxEverts @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @Doctrinesof

@TBush1689 @DaxEverts @pastherandie @Ashwin_Vengayil @TimothyMHurst @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii Can those who are not pastors admonish someone? Correct someone? Counsel someone? Advise someone?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@Jim7699 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel Paul could have made this more clear by saying something like "an elder must not be a woman" or "women must only teach other women." Paul's statement isn't vague as he already told us his purpose which was for Timothy t...

@Jim7699 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel Paul could have made this more clear by saying something like "an elder must not be a woman" or "women must only teach other women." Paul's statement isn't vague as he a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@pastherandie @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii That is right! There’s no need to appeal to someone’s authority, their PhD, if they had one or the lengthy nature of their published work. One simply needs to consider the reasons behind their conclusions, ...

@pastherandie @DoctrinesofRad @MikeWingerii That is right! There’s no need to appeal to someone’s authority, their PhD, if they had one or the lengthy nature of their published work. One simply needs

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel I love how we are a team on this. Why won't the church wake

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel I love how we are a team on this. Why won't the church wake up and realize that they have suppressed women for so long!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel But don't despair...we've got these minority texts too! Careful reading and reflection of these texts by taking all the details in their context including the grammar and they become clear that it's not about restricting godly wo...

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel But don't despair...we've got these minority texts too! Careful reading and reflection of these texts by taking all the details in their context including the grammar and they bec

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @Jim7699 We’ve got better than that because there are excel

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @Jim7699 We’ve got better than that because there are excellent exegetical and Biblically faithful explanations for 1 Tim 2:11-15 and the other passages seemingly restricting wome

1 Tim 2:11-15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@will_servant @KimberleeJayneW I agree with you, but to be fair, the English translations of 1 Cor 14:34-35, 1 Tim 2:11-15; 3:1-13, Tit 1:5-9, etc can sound like they are restricting women. It can take work to undo the stuff we’ve been told is Biblic...

@will_servant @KimberleeJayneW I agree with you, but to be fair, the English translations of 1 Cor 14:34-35, 1 Tim 2:11-15; 3:1-13, Tit 1:5-9, etc can sound like they are restricting women. It can tak

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Tim 2:11-15 Tit 1:5-9 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-09

@KimberleeJayneW Often, complementarians complain saying “feminists are selfish and just want their way” while then advising people to leave a church that has a female pastor showing that they want their way. It’s a pity that it all comes down to a m...

@KimberleeJayneW Often, complementarians complain saying “feminists are selfish and just want their way” while then advising people to leave a church that has a female pastor showing that they want th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@JoshBuice @William_E_Wolfe When you eisegete Genesis 3:16 as God establishing a

@JoshBuice @William_E_Wolfe When you eisegete Genesis 3:16 as God establishing a pattern of leadership in the home, all kinds of wrong things flow from this. https://t.co/iWB1ySMcbN

Genesis 3:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning You are already clearly wrong when you used plain English and came up with the wrong interpretation of Matt 18:20. Is Jesus there with 1, like when Paul was in priso...

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning You are already clearly wrong when you used plain English and came up with the wrong interpretation of Matt 18:20.

Matt 18:20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning No, people in the pulpits. God’s word being taught. The church edifying each other. No priestly class, except the priesthood of all believers. The Bible being underst...

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning No, people in the pulpits. God’s word being taught. The church edifying each other. No priestly class, except the pr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning The English is great until you get it completely wrong and think it is restricting godly women from teaching true doctrine to groups with males in them...

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning The English is great until you get it completely wrong and think it is restricting godly women from t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Is that so! VoicesInHisHead: The Bible is plain. Just read the English. Them: Uh…it was written in Hebrew and Greek. VoicesInHisHead: what? You thin...

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Is that so! VoicesInHisHead: The Bible is plain. Just read the English. Them: Uh…it was written in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtr

@VoicesHead100 @ScottCross_8 @katsandhearts @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Are you one of those people who reads verses like Matt 18:20 to mean that Jesus shows up when churche

Matt 18:20 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@itsHillaryJane Ah, I think I understand you. So it's the presence of the elders that essentially makes the difference? So a woman cannot teach with elders or perhaps all elders and the communion dishes present? But elders oversee the church and it w...

@itsHillaryJane Ah, I think I understand you. So it's the presence of the elders that essentially makes the difference? So a woman cannot teach with elders or perhaps all elders and the communion dish

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

@MegaChurchMouse @CatherineMcNiel @ScottCross_8 @William_E_Wolfe What if Hebrews

@MegaChurchMouse @CatherineMcNiel @ScottCross_8 @William_E_Wolfe What if Hebrews was written by Priscilla but unnamed because the Jewish males would really struggle with it if they knew this fact? Wo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-07

@ball_dummy @William_E_Wolfe You’re tired of it so it’s dishonest? The qualifying language has to do with character, not with the idea that the person must be a husband with multiple children since even Paul is unmarried and encouraged people to rem...

@ball_dummy @William_E_Wolfe You’re tired of it so it’s dishonest? The qualifying language has to do with character, not with the idea that the person must be a husband with multiple children since e

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-06

@Richard89885354 @William_E_Wolfe There is no reason in 1 Tim 3:1-13 and Titus 1

@Richard89885354 @William_E_Wolfe There is no reason in 1 Tim 3:1-13 and Titus 1:5-9 that women cannot be overseers, bishops, shepherds/pastors or deacons. https://t.co/EBzpnqJmk0

Titus 1:5-9 1 Tim 3:1-13 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-05

@Richard89885354 @MarkGrote No, but the translators thought that males were only supposed to be overseers, so they used English that seems confusing. Once you realize the Greek doesn’t have male pronouns in 1 Tim 3:1-13 or Titus 1:5-9, then you start...

@Richard89885354 @MarkGrote No, but the translators thought that males were only supposed to be overseers, so they used English that seems confusing. Once you realize the Greek doesn’t have male prono

Titus 1:5-9 1 Tim 3:1-13 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-04

@JamesDitto12 @HwsEleutheroi Is it lying to explain what I believe the scripture is saying? So if you disagree with me, you are just...right? The account of Job shows that God is free to allow things to happen to us even though we didn't deserve it...

@JamesDitto12 @HwsEleutheroi Is it lying to explain what I believe the scripture is saying? So if you disagree with me, you are just...right? The account of Job shows that God is free to allow thing

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-02

@JTrivoltin2 I'm not changing the Greek, and the NASB has indicated that the English word "everyone" is not in the original. BTW, what is "everyone's" name? So they all have the same name? You can see that "whose," "name," "him" and "his" are all s...

@JTrivoltin2 I'm not changing the Greek, and the NASB has indicated that the English word "everyone" is not in the original. BTW, what is "everyone's" name? So they all have the same name? You can s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-29

@Vestwitt @terryne02461221 @JessicaScroggin @HwsEleutheroi JWs just need to look

@Vestwitt @terryne02461221 @JessicaScroggin @HwsEleutheroi JWs just need to look at their purple interlinear and they will see that the Greek-English interlinear does NOT have the “a” but the NWT tran

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-28

@Pastor_ChrisH @HwsEleutheroi @Soteriology101 @The_Idol_Killer You think he bloc

@Pastor_ChrisH @HwsEleutheroi @Soteriology101 @The_Idol_Killer You think he blocked me simply because I didn’t have any substance in my argument?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-28

@ThreePercentage @scouts_sel41169 @ramzpaul Prov 9:13 simply talks about a fooli

@ThreePercentage @scouts_sel41169 @ramzpaul Prov 9:13 simply talks about a foolish woman, just like how Prov 10:1 talks about a foolish son. There are all kinds of foolish people. Like those who mis

Prov 10:1 Prov 9:13 1 Tim 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-25

@ymmotrojam @NeilShenvi @MikeWingerii There’s a tonne of writing on these passages and through it all would take more than a year. And yes, correcting false teaching is important though you have to first establish what the text does say. If your ex...

@ymmotrojam @NeilShenvi @MikeWingerii There’s a tonne of writing on these passages and through it all would take more than a year. And yes, correcting false teaching is important though you have to f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-23

@Christosalithos @TheMuppetPastor That is a very productive and busy woman. Mig

@Christosalithos @TheMuppetPastor That is a very productive and busy woman. Might I suggest the husband do some mopping, dishes and cooking? If the home is a shared responsibility, other family memb

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-23

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor You realize this was written in Greek, not English, right? All those male pronouns are not in the Greek text but inferred by the translators. If the statement is that an elder must be the “husband of one wife” and yo...

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor You realize this was written in Greek, not English, right? All those male pronouns are not in the Greek text but inferred by the translators. If the statement is that

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor It’s not selfish for men to take ALL leadership

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor It’s not selfish for men to take ALL leadership roles?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor Patriarchy (ie. men taking all leadership roles)

@snarkytwinkie @TheMuppetPastor Patriarchy (ie. men taking all leadership roles) ≠ selfish??

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@freedom4alltime @TheMuppetPastor I agree with that. Tearing down patriarchy and replacing with matriarchy is going too far. It also seems to say that patriarchy is selfish too, hogging all the leadership and sometimes speaking opportunities…no? I...

@freedom4alltime @TheMuppetPastor I agree with that. Tearing down patriarchy and replacing with matriarchy is going too far. It also seems to say that patriarchy is selfish too, hogging all the lead

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@TheMuppetPastor What does it mean “in church”? The church is the people. How many people gathered is “the church”? The English translations of the relevant NT passages does “seem” to prevent females, but upon careful study, I believe we got this ...

@TheMuppetPastor What does it mean “in church”? The church is the people. How many people gathered is “the church”? The English translations of the relevant NT passages does “seem” to prevent femal

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@TheMuppetPastor “Had Ruth been a feminist, thinking only of herself and her nee

@TheMuppetPastor “Had Ruth been a feminist, thinking only of herself and her needs…” Feminism = selfish ?

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