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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@HakamYaaqub @sola_chad What does 1Ti 2:12 have to do with this conversation? Paul's purpose was to stop false teaching, not to stop anyone from teaching truth...and the OP wasn't about teaching. Second, 1Co 11 is dealing with issues arising with ma...

@HakamYaaqub @sola_chad What does 1Ti 2:12 have to do with this conversation? Paul's purpose was to stop false teaching, not to stop anyone from teaching truth...and the OP wasn't about teaching. Sec

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@washghost1 @Oilfield_Rando Deal with the false teaching as it doesn't matter who teaches it or whether they are female or male. Also, Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians and refuting it: “What? came the word of God out from you [me...

@washghost1 @Oilfield_Rando Deal with the false teaching as it doesn't matter who teaches it or whether they are female or male. Also, Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians and refutin

1Co 14:36 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@TzarTheIncel @Toneskeee It's also one people take out of context and misapply.

@TzarTheIncel @Toneskeee It's also one people take out of context and misapply. Paul wasn't saying Timothy was to remain in Ephesus to instruct anyone to stop teaching truth. The purpose of Paul's let

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@aaron_p_edwards Actually, the apostle Paul told Timothy to remain in Ephesus so that he might instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines. The issue is about strange or false doctrines. This has nothing to do with stopping someone fro...

@aaron_p_edwards Actually, the apostle Paul told Timothy to remain in Ephesus so that he might instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines. The issue is about strange or false doctrines

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@KathleenRawner @immortalnchrist Paul's purpose was that Timothy remain in Ephes

@KathleenRawner @immortalnchrist Paul's purpose was that Timothy remain in Ephesus to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines (1Ti 1:3). His purpose was not to stop anyone from teac

1Ti 1:3 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@cpiisbs @MattWalshBlog That translation does not accurately reflect the Greek and therefore obfuscates Paul's meaning. The grammar is literally "She (singular) will be saved through the childbearing (definite noun) if they (plural) continue in faith...

@cpiisbs @MattWalshBlog That translation does not accurately reflect the Greek and therefore obfuscates Paul's meaning. The grammar is literally "She (singular) will be saved through the childbearing

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-01

@imnotderrek @MikeWingerii I’ll respond to your questions in sequence. The KJV English has ‘the woman’ in 2:11, but it is not in the Greek. Translators often make interpretive choices which don’t always reflect the original language. 2:14 has ‘the w...

@imnotderrek @MikeWingerii I’ll respond to your questions in sequence. The KJV English has ‘the woman’ in 2:11, but it is not in the Greek. Translators often make interpretive choices which don’t alw

language. 2:14 of 2:15 in 2:11 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-29

@tom_huguenard Just reminds me of when John Wick killed two men with a pencil an

@tom_huguenard Just reminds me of when John Wick killed two men with a pencil and someone claiming pencils are dangerous. How about: "When oppression’s shadow falls on the Bible’s pages, it’s man’s d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Staying with the text of the Bible and not relying on commentaries. Always going back to treating the context as the primary determinant of authorial meaning and intent and treating the text incl...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Staying with the text of the Bible and not relying on commentaries. Always going back to treating the context as the primary determinant of autho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA This isn’t a redefining but a going back to the source of marriage and the origin of the church as the focal point for each finding their ultimate purpose in these defining accounts. If you revi...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA This isn’t a redefining but a going back to the source of marriage and the origin of the church as the focal point for each finding their ultimat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Well, it shows that 1Tim 2:12 doesn’t mean what most presume it means. If it’s not stopping women from teaching truth to anyone but has to do with a deceived teacher teaching heresy, and Jesus al...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Well, it shows that 1Tim 2:12 doesn’t mean what most presume it means. If it’s not stopping women from teaching truth to anyone but has to do wit

1Tim 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA “On the basis of the studies of George Knight (1984) and Leland Wilshire (1988) in NTS, the 2000 edition of BDAG eliminated ‘domineer over’ as a meaning of the Greek word αὐθεντέω and substituted...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA “On the basis of the studies of George Knight (1984) and Leland Wilshire (1988) in NTS, the 2000 edition of BDAG eliminated ‘domineer over’ as a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA You may also wish to consider Belleville’s excellent work on authentein leaning towards my interpretation. The forbidden fruit brought death. This wasn’t about usurping male authority as Paul doe...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA You may also wish to consider Belleville’s excellent work on authentein leaning towards my interpretation. The forbidden fruit brought death. Thi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewhere in scripture positively. And Jesus explicitly te...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul is known for his creative use of Greek. BDAG doesn’t take that into consideration here. But if this means authority, it is not used elsewher

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul identified in chapter 1 that there are two types of blasphemers: ones like himself who were ignorant and deceived and should receive mercy, and others like Hymenaeus and Alexander who blasph...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Paul identified in chapter 1 that there are two types of blasphemers: ones like himself who were ignorant and deceived and should receive mercy,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@Valhrolf @turnedwife However, shouldn't "Judeo-christian men" care about taking

@Valhrolf @turnedwife However, shouldn't "Judeo-christian men" care about taking scripture in its context? https://t.co/XIjnmMyTX5

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definit

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definite noun, not a verb. Plus it's referring to salvation, and no woman is saved by bearing children as some cannot bear chil

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Thanks! I understand your resistance. I appreciate your concern as I’m sure you are just wanting to do what is right and not support sin. Also, I appreciate your apology—apology accepted. 😊 Many who believ...

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Thanks! I understand your resistance. I appreciate your concern as I’m sure you are just wanting to do what is right and not support sin. Also, I appreciate

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Thanks for the question. I don’t believe it’s necessary to produce a list of qualified women pastors any more than it is to produce a list of qualified men to affirm what scripture teaches. I think that th...

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Thanks for the question. I don’t believe it’s necessary to produce a list of qualified women pastors any more than it is to produce a list of qualified men

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC I’m not sure how you got to “women a

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC I’m not sure how you got to “women are not to be pastors” in the same way I don’t understand how you got that pastors don’t have to be married.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC It’s not a primary issue to me. I to

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC It’s not a primary issue to me. I tolerate his view and he tolerates mine. The church is complementarian.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC My pastor is a complementarian BTW.

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC My pastor is a complementarian BTW.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-27

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC When taken in context, Paul is not s

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC When taken in context, Paul is not stopping anyone from teaching truth to anyone. Paul wrote to Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching *false d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-24

@rootcausesleuth Paul is quoting from Ps 14/53 and assuming he isn’t taking the

@rootcausesleuth Paul is quoting from Ps 14/53 and assuming he isn’t taking the Psalmist out of context, this is talking about all the fools who deny the existence of God, not every single person. ht

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-23

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother If Paul is addressing the women in v9-10 in the plural, why does he suddenly switch to the singular? Also, why would Paul stop anyone from teaching truth to anyone when he said in 1Ti 1:3 that he ...

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother If Paul is addressing the women in v9-10 in the plural, why does he suddenly switch to the singular? Also, why would Paul stop anyone from teachin

1Ti 1:3 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-23

@RealerBrogan @YoungOneJosh1 @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem Do you see your wife

@RealerBrogan @YoungOneJosh1 @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem Do you see your wife as sin which you have to master? Gen 4 is a completely different context. The Bible has one ultimate author: God. Con

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@YoungOneJosh1 @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem You interpret something purely based on sentence structure? 🤔 If your see your wife as equivalent to sin, then I guess you must master her… Maybe that’s why men are so off base on this. Song 7:10 is the...

@YoungOneJosh1 @cheryl_hanks @rightresponsem You interpret something purely based on sentence structure? 🤔 If your see your wife as equivalent to sin, then I guess you must master her… Maybe that’s

Song 7:10 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@ymmotrojam @5SolasMissy It surely includes at least those who do and will believe. However, 2Pe 2:3 talks about false teachers who “deny the Master who bought them” and later, “For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the kno...

@ymmotrojam @5SolasMissy It surely includes at least those who do and will believe. However, 2Pe 2:3 talks about false teachers who “deny the Master who bought them” and later, “For if, after they ha

2Pe 2:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You are just explaining what you think this passage means. I mean the context of the letter. Who was Paul writing it to? What is the purpose of his writing? What does he say about those who blasph...

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You are just explaining what you think this passage means. I mean the context of the letter. Who was Paul writing it to? What is the purpose of hi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@1Maccabees2_68 @BornIn2Soul @thelovergirljas You might want to revisit these verses in their context. Paul said in 1Tim 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange doctrines. His purpose was not to stop anyone from...

@1Maccabees2_68 @BornIn2Soul @thelovergirljas You might want to revisit these verses in their context. Paul said in 1Tim 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to instruct certain people to stop teaching strange

1Tim 1:3 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@NotGunaGive @saltstyles @5Solas2 Wow...that's embarrassing... did you read the

@NotGunaGive @saltstyles @5Solas2 Wow...that's embarrassing... did you read the context? Paul was stopping certain people from teaching false doctrine. He wasn't stopping women from speaking. My good

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@Chi_Rho_PC I don’t rely on Dr. Keener’s treatment but get to a similar result a

@Chi_Rho_PC I don’t rely on Dr. Keener’s treatment but get to a similar result as him by analyzing the text of scripture alone.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Mark, you said “God gives distinct, complementary roles…” and “Roles are not oppressive—they’re ordained.” Where are you getting “role” from? It’s not even in the New Testament Greek text. Also, roles are fungible in no...

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Mark, you said “God gives distinct, complementary roles…” and “Roles are not oppressive—they’re ordained.” Where are you getting “role” from? It’s not even in the New Te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@pjgurry Your argument is not even needed for your view because submit is elsewh

@pjgurry Your argument is not even needed for your view because submit is elsewhere explicitly use of wives to their husbands. But does it mean hierarchy and authority? That is the question. https://

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@wilson_mar11767 @refiners_forge @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii While I

@wilson_mar11767 @refiners_forge @AndyStanley @mattbpeine @MikeWingerii While I disagree with Andy on things, Mike is the one twisting scripture on this subject. I’ve watched all 43 hours of his serie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—includin

Finally, Paul is not instituting a hierarchy, but calling all believers—including husbands—to lives of self-giving, Spirit-filled mutuality. To miss this is to risk treating the gospel’s transforming

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which is normal in Koine Greek, and that it is stated explicitly elsewhere (Col 3:18, Tit 2:4-5 and also 1Pe 3:5-6). However,

Eph 5:22 1Pe 3:5-6 Col 3:18 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst What is the answer to the question “For i

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst What is the answer to the question “For is it shameful for a woman to speak in church?” It is right after a statement suggesting they aren’t supposed to ask ques

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Well, I certainly do agree with that. It’s this stuff about married women as a group being immature that I’m pushing back on. Why would Paul say: “What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you onl...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Well, I certainly do agree with that. It’s this stuff about married women as a group being immature that I’m pushing back on. Why would Paul say: “What? came the

1Cor 14:36 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silencing of women in v36. So the married women are as a...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst I have no resentment and sarcasm towards the verse. My view is that vs34-35 is a quote from the letter from the Corinthians and that Paul is refuting the silenci

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

"If the church is the new Israel...and you believe that all the curses were on Israel and fulfilled literally, then how can you say that the promises given by the prophets in the same breath are all to be fulfilled figuratively? That is an impossible...

"If the church is the new Israel...and you believe that all the curses were on Israel and fulfilled literally, then how can you say that the promises given by the prophets in the same breath are all t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@tom_huguenard @aigkenham Historical knowledge? Are you assuming they have some kind of authority that transcends the Biblical accounts? Do these historians recognize the existence of a global flood which in itself changes how long it would take to ...

@tom_huguenard @aigkenham Historical knowledge? Are you assuming they have some kind of authority that transcends the Biblical accounts? Do these historians recognize the existence of a global flood

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@tom_huguenard @aigkenham Doesn’t your statement assume you have God’s perspecti

@tom_huguenard @aigkenham Doesn’t your statement assume you have God’s perspective on religious authority? 🤔 He’s not claiming unique access to divine truth.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst But isn’t v34-35 just addressing married women interr

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst But isn’t v34-35 just addressing married women interrupting with questions? What if the woman has a prophecy or a scripture to share?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So Paul can't address the whole church and then speci

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So Paul can't address the whole church and then specifically the men?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst “Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy” (1Co 14:1) This is addressed to the whole church, not just men. Shouldn’t women pursue love and spiritual gifts? If they desire to p...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst “Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy” (1Co 14:1) This is addressed to the whole church, not just men. Shouldn’t women pu

1Co 14:1 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Not as a requirement. I cannot invite 200 to my home

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Not as a requirement. I cannot invite 200 to my home even if I wanted to. But if 20 came and a newcomer came in the midst and all were prophesying… Today’s churches don’t f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Do all prophesy when you meet? Does each one share a

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst Do all prophesy when you meet? Does each one share a Psalm, a teaching, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation? If a word comes to someone does your pastor sit down? C

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst A verse taken out of its context is a pretext for a p

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst A verse taken out of its context is a pretext for a proof text. Paul’s stated purpose was for Timothy to instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines. The idea of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Women are not forbidden by God to be

@DoctrineTruth @CherylSchatz @JoeyRogersMBC Women are not forbidden by God to be pastors or to teach people including men. https://t.co/VI2qbiI67E

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