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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-29

@Rach4Patriarchy There are certainly a lot of problems in the protestant church (well, most churches), but it would seem that your main issue is with egalitarian views on gender. Treating this as a major issue and not a secondary matter is serious. ...

@Rach4Patriarchy There are certainly a lot of problems in the protestant church (well, most churches), but it would seem that your main issue is with egalitarian views on gender. Treating this as a m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-19

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yep, there’s that line again where what complementarians view as clear Biblical teaching gets applied in a remarkably varied fashion. Dr. Dani Treweek recently explained how wonderful of a reception women had at a conference of c...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yep, there’s that line again where what complementarians view as clear Biblical teaching gets applied in a remarkably varied fashion. Dr. Dani Treweek recently explained how wonde

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The exact same thing applies to your interpretation as well.

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The exact same thing applies to your interpretation as well. Why don’t you take another look at a consistent, Biblically faithful, egalitarian interpretation of 1 Cor 14:34-36 and

1 Cor 14:34-36 1 Tim 2:11-15 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

RT @ryanschatz: @danitreweek If I reflected (as an egalitarian) how cool it was

RT @ryanschatz: @danitreweek If I reflected (as an egalitarian) how cool it was to see males prioritized over females you’d have every righ…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-17

@danitreweek If I reflected (as an egalitarian) how cool it was to see males pri

@danitreweek If I reflected (as an egalitarian) how cool it was to see males prioritized over females you’d have every right to raise an eyebrow and suggest I sounded like a complementarian. The labe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-16

@danitreweek It's genuinely heartening to hear about your experience with complementarians who demonstrated such respect and equality. Indeed, the very best complementarians are those who, in practice, embody an egalitarian approach. =) The challeng...

@danitreweek It's genuinely heartening to hear about your experience with complementarians who demonstrated such respect and equality. Indeed, the very best complementarians are those who, in practice

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@William_E_Wolfe Intersectionality is a disease but egalitarianism is not. https

@William_E_Wolfe Intersectionality is a disease but egalitarianism is not. https://t.co/4tYGBalq90

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@William_E_Wolfe It is true that churches that don’t base their views on scriptu

@William_E_Wolfe It is true that churches that don’t base their views on scripture will likely become more and more progressive. That is a legitimate concern. But it doesn’t follow that the egalitar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-13

@JohnMoo26668690 @ChristOverChaos The history of feminism is a fundamental of Christianity?? Wowzers. I merely suggested a possible reason for the reaction in our culture. I’m not denying feminism shares claims some things in common with egalitari...

@JohnMoo26668690 @ChristOverChaos The history of feminism is a fundamental of Christianity?? Wowzers. I merely suggested a possible reason for the reaction in our culture. I’m not denying feminism

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-12

@JohnMoo26668690 That’s rediculous and completely false. Why would you fight ag

@JohnMoo26668690 That’s rediculous and completely false. Why would you fight against a Biblical worldview of the church? Don’t you know about feminism? Egalitarianism is not feminism! https://t.co/4

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I’m not dismissing anything. I’m exegeting this idiom in context. I think we need to first address your comment “That’s the behaviour of an egalitarian, not a Believer.” Are you suggesting I’m not a Christian...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I’m not dismissing anything. I’m exegeting this idiom in context. I think we need to first address your comment “That’s the behaviour of an egalitarian, not a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-08

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Egalitarianism is a philosophy that says there is no hierarchy of one gender over the other, no ruling or authority of simply because of gender. Gender and ethnicity are baked into the OT system. Any male with ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Egalitarianism is a philosophy that says there is no hierarchy of one gender over the other, no ruling or authority of simply because of gender. Gender and ethni

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris You are right that it is dangerous to say that you don't like what the Bible says and then come up with your own way. But what if we've been reading these passages on women wrong in the first place and one can be faithful to...

@RenOfMen @ZacharyGarris You are right that it is dangerous to say that you don't like what the Bible says and then come up with your own way. But what if we've been reading these passages on women w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-07

@reformedrandy @thatssocheeky @lagracelaverite Take another look. Here's a cons

@reformedrandy @thatssocheeky @lagracelaverite Take another look. Here's a consistent Biblically faithful egalitarian interpretation of 1 Cor 14:34-35. Paul is quoting from the Corinthian letter and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-31

@richjmatt26 @MikeWingerii Debating a position is different from insisting or forcing your rights. I can debate the truthfulness of the egalitarian position but I don’t believe we should force that equal right on our churches. It should come by con...

@richjmatt26 @MikeWingerii Debating a position is different from insisting or forcing your rights. I can debate the truthfulness of the egalitarian position but I don’t believe we should force that e

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-31

@HwsEleutheroi Ugh. I agree with you and think this is very unwise and cultural

@HwsEleutheroi Ugh. I agree with you and think this is very unwise and cultural syncretism. But this doesn’t mean egalitarian beliefs are wrong. Only that there are many falling prey to culture. I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-31

@bebookled @canonpress Please explain why we should listen to you, a woman? (ps

@bebookled @canonpress Please explain why we should listen to you, a woman? (ps: I’m egalitarian myself…I just wonder how you can justify your critique and commentary against other women who give com

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-29

@gloriousolitude I’m egalitarian when it comes to the facts but I also think tha

@gloriousolitude I’m egalitarian when it comes to the facts but I also think that biblically we are called to serve each other so while I feel called to help people see things my way :-) I don’t belie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-25

@William_E_Wolfe The answer to patriarchalism and feminism which are on the right and left is egalitarianism. Egalitarians understand general differences between men and women but that these do not prevent qualified women from leadership. In fact, ...

@William_E_Wolfe The answer to patriarchalism and feminism which are on the right and left is egalitarianism. Egalitarians understand general differences between men and women but that these do not p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-24

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian. I don’t do use emotive language and feelings.

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian. I don’t do use emotive language and feelings. Just the cold hard facts.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-24

@BogdanOancea77 I'm not starting from a pre-conceived idea of egalitarianism. I was raised with the idea that women were not allowed to preach and that the leadership role was male only. The CBE article you linked makes the following comment: "In J...

@BogdanOancea77 I'm not starting from a pre-conceived idea of egalitarianism. I was raised with the idea that women were not allowed to preach and that the leadership role was male only. The CBE art

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-23

@GlennDavies @danitreweek I guess I was just responding to Dani's Egalitarian pl

@GlennDavies @danitreweek I guess I was just responding to Dani's Egalitarian playbook which is apparently that we avoid dealing with these hard passages. Well... here's an egalitarian who isn't doin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-23

@GlennDavies @danitreweek Ok, I appreciate you updating me. Not sure what you mean by conclusion based? I'm just showing how you can have an egalitarian interpretation of this difficult passage which is Biblically faithful. Is that "conclusion bas...

@GlennDavies @danitreweek Ok, I appreciate you updating me. Not sure what you mean by conclusion based? I'm just showing how you can have an egalitarian interpretation of this difficult passage whic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-22

@danitreweek Maybe it’s time for the new new egalitarian playbook which focuses

@danitreweek Maybe it’s time for the new new egalitarian playbook which focuses on exposition and less on feelings? Try me.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-22

@GlennDavies @danitreweek Interesting. I’m egalitarian. I think I have exegesi

@GlennDavies @danitreweek Interesting. I’m egalitarian. I think I have exegesis that makes sense of the hard passages. No need for slander or wading into feelings and experiences. Try me.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

Q: "What does being the head of the wife mean?" @MikeWingerii You sound like yo

Q: "What does being the head of the wife mean?" @MikeWingerii You sound like you are 95% egalitarian. It seems it's now down to making the final call when there is a disagreement. Is that it??? ht

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

Thanks for clarifying! I don't see Genesis 1-3 as fatal for an egalitarian view at all. There's certainly a lot of poor scholarship (though I see it on both sides), but if we focus only on the best arguments, Gen 1-3 is actually a critical foundati...

Thanks for clarifying! I don't see Genesis 1-3 as fatal for an egalitarian view at all. There's certainly a lot of poor scholarship (though I see it on both sides), but if we focus only on the best

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

Thanks for clarifying! I don't see Genesis 1-3 as fatal for an egalitarian view at all. There's certainly a lot of poor scholarship (though I see it on both sides), but if we focus only on the best arguments, Gen 1-3 is actually a critical foundati...

Thanks for clarifying! I don't see Genesis 1-3 as fatal for an egalitarian view at all. There's certainly a lot of poor scholarship (though I see it on both sides), but if we focus only on the best

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii That is precisely what the egalitarian view is.

@justasbefuddled @MikeWingerii That is precisely what the egalitarian view is. That there are no gender based hierarchy or authority structures promoted in the Bible for families and churches.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@MikeWingerii As an egalitarian, I agree with points #1-4. I take issue with #5 because it says there is an inherent hierarchy and authority structure between the husband and wife and between males and females in the church. That said, if you do a ...

@MikeWingerii As an egalitarian, I agree with points #1-4. I take issue with #5 because it says there is an inherent hierarchy and authority structure between the husband and wife and between males a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-21

@MikeWingerii Most of these are just guesses that don’t hold up. Egalitarians a

@MikeWingerii Most of these are just guesses that don’t hold up. Egalitarians are fundamentally on the right track but many guess on these hard passages. For a view that is consistent with all the d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

Creating a proper thread. Egalitarian and Biblically faithful exposition of 1 T

Creating a proper thread. Egalitarian and Biblically faithful exposition of 1 Timothy 2:11-15. https://t.co/dvkKdPd1sy

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-20

1/🧵In light of some who believe that female pastors (and those who support them) are in high-handed rebellion against God, I'd like to provide an exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 which is egalitarian and Biblically faithful. We need to remember that thos...

1/🧵In light of some who believe that female pastors (and those who support them) are in high-handed rebellion against God, I'd like to provide an exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 which is egalitarian and B

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-19

@_nomadic_soul Church is about people. It is very understandable how you feel. I recently got pushed out of a church and 3 that I looked into won't ever allow me into leadership because I am egalitarian. The church I'm now going to seems focused o...

@_nomadic_soul Church is about people. It is very understandable how you feel. I recently got pushed out of a church and 3 that I looked into won't ever allow me into leadership because I am egalita

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-14

@RegManMinistry @NoSup4u @shawnthebeachy @MikeWingerii The issue here is that th

@RegManMinistry @NoSup4u @shawnthebeachy @MikeWingerii The issue here is that the text itself presents difficulties. Egalitarians are (hopefully) just pointing them out and then trying to find ways t

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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 2023-07-14

@MikeWingerii Your bias may not be to want male power, but you may simply have a bias nonetheless which is preventing you from seeing a Biblically faithful egalitarian solution. It may in fact be hiding in amongst all the other chaff you place aroun...

@MikeWingerii Your bias may not be to want male power, but you may simply have a bias nonetheless which is preventing you from seeing a Biblically faithful egalitarian solution. It may in fact be hid

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-14

@MikeWingerii If only one egalitarian response was provided which made sense of

@MikeWingerii If only one egalitarian response was provided which made sense of the text in context without disagreeing with other scripture, would you accept it?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-11

@William_E_Wolfe Isn’t it a sin to be unbiblically partial in your confession to

@William_E_Wolfe Isn’t it a sin to be unbiblically partial in your confession to exclude egalitarians? In the same way you claim to not be partial based on ethnicity should equally apply to gender. W

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-07

@MikeWingerii @evanwickham However, your job—should you choose to accept it⎯is not to see whether all egalitarian guesses can be harmonized or not, but to find the truth. This means that many proposed views don’t hold up to scrutiny but doesn’t mean...

@MikeWingerii @evanwickham However, your job—should you choose to accept it⎯is not to see whether all egalitarian guesses can be harmonized or not, but to find the truth. This means that many propose

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-07-05

@MikeWingerii Yes, as with most difficult issues, you have found that there are a lot of egalitarians guessing at what is going on here.  Only the solution(s) that work in the context with the grammar and without contradicting other scripture work.  ...

@MikeWingerii Yes, as with most difficult issues, you have found that there are a lot of egalitarians guessing at what is going on here.  Only the solution(s) that work in the context with the grammar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-29

Fantastic summary of the current state of the SBC by Terran Williams!  Terran co

Fantastic summary of the current state of the SBC by Terran Williams!  Terran compares the issue of women being prevented from pastoral, elder and deacon positions to how the SBC advocated for slavery

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-24

@tome708 @RupertP46422908 @JustinPetersMin You are wrong sir. I’m in a church t

@tome708 @RupertP46422908 @JustinPetersMin You are wrong sir. I’m in a church that is egalitarian and is leaving the denomination because they were accepting gay pastors. A female pastor is not an a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-22

@BibleBashed I’m an egalitarian and don’t reject the Biblical anthropology in Ge

@BibleBashed I’m an egalitarian and don’t reject the Biblical anthropology in Gen 1-2. Unless you are referring to roles only for men or gender hierarchy or authority of the man over the woman, but t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-20

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian and I can agree with this.

@William_E_Wolfe I’m egalitarian and I can agree with this.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-17

@MikeWingerii @kitchenSvenk30 Except there seems to be a number who feel support

@MikeWingerii @kitchenSvenk30 Except there seems to be a number who feel supporting women pastors or likely even being egalitarian as “high handed rebellion” https://t.co/PFGfoVyXTt

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-16

@revjeffvox @5pointsMckinley Mike Winger responds to most of the egalitarian arguments which are poor. But the ones which are good he spends little time on and some he ignores. But he does not have an exegesis of the key passages which makes all th...

@revjeffvox @5pointsMckinley Mike Winger responds to most of the egalitarian arguments which are poor. But the ones which are good he spends little time on and some he ignores. But he does not have

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-14

@William_E_Wolfe @RickWarren Correction.... "egalitarian churches" to be disfellowshipped. No matter what you think of Rick Warren, this decision means if you believe women can be pastors, you will not be tolerated in the SBC. Sad as its a secondar...

@William_E_Wolfe @RickWarren Correction.... "egalitarian churches" to be disfellowshipped. No matter what you think of Rick Warren, this decision means if you believe women can be pastors, you will n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@brmorris @CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam I suppose the corresponding term to feminism

@brmorris @CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam I suppose the corresponding term to feminism would be chauvinism. The tendency is to prioritize or force your way, but the Biblical way is mutual submission. Mayb

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-06-13

@CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam @brmorris Egalitarian means shared authority or mutual submission. Complementarian is male authority. Patriarchy is more extreme. Feminism is female authority. Extreme feminism is female priority and authority. So there...

@CherylSchatz @ymmotrojam @brmorris Egalitarian means shared authority or mutual submission. Complementarian is male authority. Patriarchy is more extreme. Feminism is female authority. Extreme fe

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