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@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony But interpreting scripture requires t

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony But interpreting scripture requires the ability to read in context. A scripture taken out of its context is a pretext for a proof text. https://t.co/ZQizsThB

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@Flyoverland22 Paul wrote a personal letter to Timothy (which he was aware the c

@Flyoverland22 Paul wrote a personal letter to Timothy (which he was aware the church would read and benefit from) which exhorts Timothy to remain in Ephesus to stop the teaching of strange doctrines,

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony But interpreting scripture requires t

@Flyoverland22 Paul wrote a personal letter to Timothy (which he was aware the c

@RevBCD God is no respect or of persons and if He gifts someone and they have th

@109evictions A scripture out of context is here being used as a pretext for a p

@_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony Excellent point. If God is no repertory of persons then why is whether they are female a problem? If women will judge angels too one day (1Co 6:2-3), then why is serving an elder in this life a sin for someone especially i...

@AMalteseSailor No, you cannot make up sin. The Bible is clear when it comes to sin. Because if someone sins unrepentantly they are not in the kingdom of God. What you call “subverting God’s Word” is actually just careful interpretation and rightly d...

@HollandGreig This takes us back to the same letter in 1Cor 6:2-3. Paul says the saints will judge the world *and angels*. Saints includes both men and women. If we will judge angels, then we ought to be able to judge matters of this life. Thus, "be...

@The_Sig_ @WayneShaff60221 None of these passages refer to 'head of the home'... 1. 1Ti 2:11–15 – Refers to Genesis showing that Eve's deception had to do with her time sequence order of creation after Adam who was created first. There is no mention...

@The_Sig_ @The_Home_Six The Father and the Son are equal in all eternity, but what happened in the incarnation is Jesus set aside His glory and the right to act on His own initiative. Unless you are like the glorified Father and your wife is like the...

Careful, those who speak for God can find themselves in big trouble one day. Bet

@slyoung687 As for 1Cor 14:34-35, let me know if the following helps. It is Paul

@n0lI73_7Im3r3 @morgonnm I guess the question that really needs to be asked is whether the Bible means to use the word ‘head’ to mean ‘the boss of’ someone. Based on my reading, it’s about source relationships. God &gt; origin of Jesus’ body, Jesus &...

This isn’t a theoretical problem. It reveals a deep inconsistency between Calvi

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel That’s right, “gave” (Greek: edōken) is used in all those passages. But the key issue isn’t whether repentance is *from* God—Scripture clearly affirms that. The question is: does “gave” mean it is irresistibly received and ex...

This is a bizarre take. If Jesus wants to preserve a remnant through the tribula

@My_Lord_Grant @smashbaals Note how that passage is in a personal letter to Timo

@DavidEdgington Bitter Reviling Husbands are equivalently bad workers and also d

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii The restrictions are related to character and ability (and teaching truth rather than heresy). The qualifications are not based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, male or female, age, size, whether or not o...

@janine_ped86302 @haymes_joshua I see. So are you ignoring what I presented and just moving on to the next point? In Paul’s personal letter to Timothy regarding his appeal to him to remain in Ephesus to stop the spread of strange teachings (1Ti 1:3)...

@janine_ped86302 @haymes_joshua Paul is describing character traits. He uses the

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua Paul is not requiring one to be a husband or else he is himself disqualified! And the fact that he advocates for people to be single in 1Co 7 would have to have had a clear note that this makes one disqualified for leade...

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua The only explicit pronoun in that passage is in v1 and is ‘tis’ which is generic. Why wouldn’t Paul be more explicit and state ‘must not be a female’? Rather, he uses character which any can attain to and not requirement...

My second question is: when does the wife get to grow up and share the responsib

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situatio

Winger’s lexical defense is weak because: - The word is rare, and his “neutral”

My view differs from claim 4—I believe Paul wants this woman to stop teaching until she learns the truth. Her being silent is about her not teaching, which Winger would agree with. The difference is Winger sees it as a general rule, not a situation-s...

This claim that Winger is responding to sets a problematic precedent by separating Paul’s inspired words from the authority of Scripture. However, I believe it is possible to honour Paul's authority and inspiration while examining what exactly Paul ...

As James requested, let's look at the summary chart he provided which lists 'Ega

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The thread was about Kephale and your question wa

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And we only have Peter and John who self identify as ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon There’s a difference between using generic pronouns like ‘tis’ in 1Ti 3:1 and male forms of words and explicitly calling out “must be a man” or “must not be a woman.” Paul clearly isn’t intending to restrict based on wh...

@LordFerguson09 @outcatching @danitreweek If “must be the husband of one wife” and “keeping his children (plural) under control” is what is literally required then every elder has to be married only once and must have 2 or more believing children. Th...

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be married and have 2 or more children and Paul was neith...

@path1_one @rightresponsem I have no interest in that question as it has little

@path1_one @rightresponsem In the following, I explain Eph 5:22-33 in light of the reciprocity of subjection to one another in v21. I also show how Paul appeals to Philemon to treat Onesimus, his former slave, as Paul himself! Paul appeals rather tha...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't disqualified). Implied pronouns are male but this is...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon A concordance is a fallible tool. The definitive source is the Bible and its context. The word kephale means head. It's used all over, so there's no debate on this. What that means in context is the question. And every ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon You sound like you are presuming your conclusion. If Paul is using an idiom to describe character (which is the case for all the other things Paul lists), then this isn't about being married or male. Paul wasn't marrie...

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historical creed or confession unifying the church says th...

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others including men and provide pastoral counseling, and l...

@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems to be noting something that a wife uniquely has as ...

@TheAwokeSlayer I am confused. You said goodbye but now you are responding. If you don’t want to respond, then just ignore my follow up questions. If you are a complementarian who lives like me, an egalitarian, I have no problem with that. Just say ...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Thanks for highlighting your questions again. How do you know that Jesus nor Paul were egalitarian? I prefer the notion of mutual submission as the Christian view is not about clamouring for high positions but the ups...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Then, in Gen 3:16, after the Fall, God says to E

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem The fact that Jesus chose 12 male apostles has n

Pope Francis made some comments before he died on Monday. He calls everyone children of God, doesn’t seem concerned with the imminent return of Christ and advocates for human induced peace when the Bible says that wars and rumours of wars continue un...

@JamesDitto12 @smashbaals 1. The LXX is an important witness to how the Hebrew was understood very early. 2. The inspired text has only the consonants; vowel markings were added in the 6-10th century AD. So there is a legitimate interpretive questio...

@smashbaals Reminder that you keep misreading scripture. The Bible says no such

John MacArthur is right on this issue—the key is what the Bible says, so we need

@smashbaals Which verse are you quoting from because I don’t read that in my Bib

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@HollandGreig This takes us back to the same letter in 1Cor 6:2-3. Paul says the saints will judge the world and angels. Saints includes both men and women. If we will judge angels, then we ought to be able to judge matters of this life. Thus, "be...

@n0lI73_7Im3r3 @morgonnm I guess the question that really needs to be asked is whether the Bible means to use the word ‘head’ to mean ‘the boss of’ someone. Based on my reading, it’s about source relationships. God > origin of Jesus’ body, Jesus &...

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel That’s right, “gave” (Greek: edōken) is used in all those passages. But the key issue isn’t whether repentance is from God—Scripture clearly affirms that. The question is: does “gave” mean it is irresistibly received and ex...