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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-04

@evaanderberg @Grump_Old_Man @MikeWingerii Yes, there are those who see parts of

@evaanderberg @Grump_Old_Man @MikeWingerii Yes, there are those who see parts of the Bible as in error. Critical theory is another issue but I’m referring to those who agree with your interpretation o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-04

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Let’s take this from another angle then. What kinds

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Let’s take this from another angle then. What kinds of commands from a pastor uniquely require obedience to him and not someone else if they said the same thing but weren’t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-02

@Unique95185 @rightresponsem Yes and aspiring to serve as an overseer is a good

@Unique95185 @rightresponsem Yes and aspiring to serve as an overseer is a good thing. “It is a trustworthy statement: if anyone aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work they desire to do

1Ti 3:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-03-01

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Looking at Eph 5:22,24, Col 3:18, Tit 2:5, 1Pe 3:1, the key verb used is ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō), which means “to place or arrange under, to subject, to submit.” It is often used in the middle/passive voice, indicating a volu...

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Looking at Eph 5:22,24, Col 3:18, Tit 2:5, 1Pe 3:1, the key verb used is ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō), which means “to place or arrange under, to subject, to submit.” It is often u

Eph 5:22 1Pe 3:1 Col 3:18 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-27

@riecker “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, n

@riecker “I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock” (Ac 20:29) ⎯ the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians Elders, ~AD 57.

Ac 20:29 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-25

@TomBuck He’s making the point that these things are not primary. If your weaker

@TomBuck He’s making the point that these things are not primary. If your weaker brother is offended by you not wearing a mask, is it really the end of the world and worth leaving a church? The pastor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-25

@WWUTTcom You’d be surprised how many pastors don’t know what this passage means

@WWUTTcom You’d be surprised how many pastors don’t know what this passage means. I used it when interviewing pastors and was quite shocked at the results.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-24

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are lying by saying that "Paul never so much as hints at" since he states "certain people teaching strange doctrines" in 1Ti 1:3. That's at least a hint. And this is not a translation issue⎯it's an inte...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi You are lying by saying that "Paul never so much as hints at" since he states "certain people teaching strange doctrines" in 1Ti 1:3. That's at least a hint.

1Ti 1:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@cjhormes @rightresponsem Doesn’t Trump support female pastors? Also, heresy isn’t just disagreeing on debatable matters but on the primary things that unify all Christians like the nature of God, the gospel, the physical resurrection, the deity of ...

@cjhormes @rightresponsem Doesn’t Trump support female pastors? Also, heresy isn’t just disagreeing on debatable matters but on the primary things that unify all Christians like the nature of God, th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@rightresponsem What about Christians who support female pastors? Would you allo

@rightresponsem What about Christians who support female pastors? Would you allow them to be sworn in to office?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-22

@dalepartridge I agree with you. And so women who are leaders and teachers and p

@dalepartridge I agree with you. And so women who are leaders and teachers and pastors shouldn’t be relegated to just children or women but be able to minister to the entire body! You made a great arg

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@WonderingBashir @ronhenzel Well let’s see—how would you like it if you were tol

@WonderingBashir @ronhenzel Well let’s see—how would you like it if you were told to be silent for your whole life and you had a gift and calling to teach or pastor?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You commented and I thought I’d comment—which I’m comple

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You commented and I thought I’d comment—which I’m completely free to do. Now I feel you are deliberately wasting my time…again, curious.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You are completely free to do whatever you wish, Ron.

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe You are completely free to do whatever you wish, Ron.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe I agree about the bots. But I’m not sure how you assess

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe I agree about the bots. But I’m not sure how you assess a ‘deliberate waste of time’ since it’s up to you what to respond to/read and there is a mute button for this purpose.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe Interesting strategy you have for blocks.

@ronhenzel @Pastor_Gabe Interesting strategy you have for blocks.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-18

@that_foot_is_me That’s a good passage to keep in mind regarding those that twis

@that_foot_is_me That’s a good passage to keep in mind regarding those that twist Paul’s words.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-18

@Crystalisives @rightresponsem Yeah, it's always a bit shocking to hear people a

@Crystalisives @rightresponsem Yeah, it's always a bit shocking to hear people actually say this. I think it would have been much better to just say "I have no idea what this passage means" than to sa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-17

@RobChristisKing @smashbaals Fourth, this is the same pattern we see in Ro 11: “They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear… otherwise you too will be cut off” (Ro 11:20-22). Both passages teac...

@RobChristisKing @smashbaals Fourth, this is the same pattern we see in Ro 11: “They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear… otherwise you too w

Ro 11:20-22 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-17

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals If this passage only referred to nations,

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals If this passage only referred to nations, it would imply nations are saved or lost collectively. But salvation is *always* individual in Paul’s theology: “If you

Ro 10:9 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist “God’s people” is not a reference to an authorita

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist “God’s people” is not a reference to an authoritative hierarchy or something a pope or bishop could claim without evidence backing it up.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-14

@Autumn_Armyworm @dougponder @BenMandrell @markedpodcast The scripture governs c

@Autumn_Armyworm @dougponder @BenMandrell @markedpodcast The scripture governs churches. 1Ti 3 and Tit 1 do not indicate that elders must be males unless you think they must be married men with 2 or m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-14

Finally, for his TL;DR post (https://t.co/iNJCUobNmN), Ponder calls Mandrell a t

Finally, for his TL;DR post (https://t.co/iNJCUobNmN), Ponder calls Mandrell a thin and narrow ideological complementarian who is one in name only. However, I don't think Ponder takes the passages he

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-14

In his next post (https://t.co/RzkrAGIuu6), Ponder raises his angst stating "most insidious of all, Mandrell says, 'Let's get away from nomenclature,' by which he means the church needs to stop talking about titles (pastors and elders)." No, Mandrel...

In his next post (https://t.co/RzkrAGIuu6), Ponder raises his angst stating "most insidious of all, Mandrell says, 'Let's get away from nomenclature,' by which he means the church needs to stop talkin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@ChappyMacc @rightresponsem @ZacharyGarris I have Zachary’s book. He didn’t seem to have the fortitude to discuss scripture with me, so he blocked me. Tough guy I guess. Jezebel is never called a pastor. In fact, there is no one explicitly referred ...

@ChappyMacc @rightresponsem @ZacharyGarris I have Zachary’s book. He didn’t seem to have the fortitude to discuss scripture with me, so he blocked me. Tough guy I guess. Jezebel is never called a pas

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Paul’s teaching in 1Ti 2:11-15 are specific to a wife teaching false doctrine and a husband who is informed but silent—likely an elder who refuses to stop the false teaching b/c it’s hi...

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Paul’s teaching in 1Ti 2:11-15 are specific to a wife teaching false doctrine and a husband who is informed but silent—likely an elder

1Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@ROM_12_2 @Eric_Conn I ask you again, what does physical strength have to do wit

@ROM_12_2 @Eric_Conn I ask you again, what does physical strength have to do with teaching and pastoring? Are you wrestling people to your point of view in church?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@pickles344873 @SavedbygraceIII @Eric_Conn Jezebel? I do not support false teachers including women who teach false doctrine and entice people to sin. Why do you presume that all women teach false doctrine? It’s mainly just liberal women who are pa...

@pickles344873 @SavedbygraceIII @Eric_Conn Jezebel? I do not support false teachers including women who teach false doctrine and entice people to sin. Why do you presume that all women teach false do

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@SavedbygraceIII @JohnJoh26521652 @Eric_Conn Matthew He tu was confused by this passage too. First, teaching itself has not authority as the Bereans demonstrated—it is the content, if true, that has authority. Second, if women can teach at home, at w...

@SavedbygraceIII @JohnJoh26521652 @Eric_Conn Matthew He tu was confused by this passage too. First, teaching itself has not authority as the Bereans demonstrated—it is the content, if true, that has a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@JRowley11 @Just_A_Man67 That’s completely incorrect. I mean that I’ve read the passages that complementarians and patriarchalists rely on to restrict women and I draw a different conclusion. For example, 1Co 14:34-35 is clearly Paul quoting from the...

@JRowley11 @Just_A_Man67 That’s completely incorrect. I mean that I’ve read the passages that complementarians and patriarchalists rely on to restrict women and I draw a different conclusion. For exam

1Co 14:34-35 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Huh? Is that th

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Huh? Is that the best you’ve got? 12 Jewish male apostles yet you don’t believe all pastors have to be Jewish, right?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@theOutlawJW1 @Eric_Conn Qualifications are related to godliness and character,

@theOutlawJW1 @Eric_Conn Qualifications are related to godliness and character, not things that you cannot change like whether you are male or female, Jewish or Gentile, slave or free, etc. Further,

1Ti 3:2 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@MikeWingerii Especially the faithful female pastors. No one mentions them…

@MikeWingerii Especially the faithful female pastors. No one mentions them…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@JohnJoh26521652 @Eric_Conn I’ll amend: A man who lives in constant fear of a q

@JohnJoh26521652 @Eric_Conn I’ll amend: A man who lives in constant fear of a qualified woman serving as an elder and teaching truth to all including men—and who doesn’t rightly divide scripture—is u

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@Eric_Conn A man who lives in constant fear of a qualified woman serving as an e

@Eric_Conn A man who lives in constant fear of a qualified woman serving as an elder and teaching truth to all including men is unfit to serve as a leader in the church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not t

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not truly shepherding and helping others develop in their gifting.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@I_Been_Raptured @MikeWingerii Heresy? Heresy is related to the person and work of Jesus, the nature of God, the gospel—basically the fundamentals of the faith. Whether women can teach truth or serve as elders is not a fundamental and shouldn’t be re...

@I_Been_Raptured @MikeWingerii Heresy? Heresy is related to the person and work of Jesus, the nature of God, the gospel—basically the fundamentals of the faith. Whether women can teach truth or serve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@MikeWingerii And sometimes it’s men who underestimate the Holy Spirit’s gifting

@MikeWingerii And sometimes it’s men who underestimate the Holy Spirit’s gifting and choosing when it is pastoral gifts given to women and His selecting them for elders and overseers.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-07

@MikeWingerii “…his own ministry is suspending his work while this investigation is ongoing.” Some have protested that Brown is still doing active ministry work and they want him to stop until the investigation is done. So removing a good past inter...

@MikeWingerii “…his own ministry is suspending his work while this investigation is ongoing.” Some have protested that Brown is still doing active ministry work and they want him to stop until the in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-06

@IsaiahofNZ @MikeWingerii One more thing—Mike says that the issue of whether wom

@IsaiahofNZ @MikeWingerii One more thing—Mike says that the issue of whether women can be pastors or not is secondary despite his strong beliefs. All I’m saying is that Mike needs to treat secondary a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-06

@akn0187rmb @MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii Repent of what? Teaching that women can

@akn0187rmb @MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii Repent of what? Teaching that women can be elders and pastors?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-06

@Tailfeathers_WA @MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii Ok, so will my works be burned up b

@Tailfeathers_WA @MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii Ok, so will my works be burned up but I’ll be saved or will I be cast into the lake of fire for teaching that women can teach truth to men and serve as pas

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-05

@MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii He told those who are spreading egalitarian teaching

@MtotheBWilly @MikeWingerii He told those who are spreading egalitarian teaching to repent. Specifically the idea that women can be elders / pastors. https://t.co/8Uw6UHSvFE

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-05

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals And an overseer. While Paul isn’t explicitly r

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals And an overseer. While Paul isn’t explicitly referred to as an elder or overseer, he does all the things an overseer does. And Peter shows one can be both an apostle

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Indeed! No overseer should have “wives” either. Oh, and Paul was unmarried…so he who is making the requirements is disqualified. And also, elders must have at least 2 or more believing children, so all of you elders...

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Indeed! No overseer should have “wives” either. Oh, and Paul was unmarried…so he who is making the requirements is disqualified. And also, elders must have at least

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Never mind the modern titles—they are made up.

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Never mind the modern titles—they are made up. The question is what does scripture teach related to pastors and whether there are gender-based restrictions.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@onedayatatimeLB @ymmotrojam @smashbaals I think that some biblical instructions like this are less explicit to test our discernment. Take 1Ti 3:2—those who insist “an elder must be male” overlook that just a few verses later (1Ti 3:4-5), elders are...

@onedayatatimeLB @ymmotrojam @smashbaals I think that some biblical instructions like this are less explicit to test our discernment. Take 1Ti 3:2—those who insist “an elder must be male” overlook th

1Ti 3:2 1Ti 3:4-5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Keith83361 @UndeadOrlan @smashbaals Interesting. Are you saying she preached au

@Keith83361 @UndeadOrlan @smashbaals Interesting. Are you saying she preached authoritatively to the pastor? Or took authority over him?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@UndeadOrlan @Keith83361 @smashbaals Also, in 1Ti 2:12 the term authentein is wh

@UndeadOrlan @Keith83361 @smashbaals Also, in 1Ti 2:12 the term authentein is what some believe means to “exercise authority over” someone. This is the only place it is used in the Bible. Why isn’t it

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@UndeadOrlan @Keith83361 @smashbaals Ok, thanks for explaining your context. Wha

@UndeadOrlan @Keith83361 @smashbaals Ok, thanks for explaining your context. What do you mean by “exercise authority” over you? Can you give me some examples? I served as an elder so I’m curious.

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