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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-26

@pudgenet @MikeWingerii There's no positive sense in which a man is said to authentein anyone, so you cannot use a hapax legomenon to establish such doctrine. Since the letter's purpose was about false teaching, you cannot just infer this is about wo...

@pudgenet @MikeWingerii There's no positive sense in which a man is said to authentein anyone, so you cannot use a hapax legomenon to establish such doctrine. Since the letter's purpose was about fals

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@pudgenet @MikeWingerii Thanks. There are differences between men and women, bot

@pudgenet @MikeWingerii Thanks. There are differences between men and women, both physical and emotional. But not so different that they both cannot lead or that women should be excluded from serving

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii We have many places in scripture where sin is made clear. This is important because you cannot continue to sin unrepentantly and be saved. yet we have no scripture that says that a woman leading men or serving as an elder o...

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii We have many places in scripture where sin is made clear. This is important because you cannot continue to sin unrepentantly and be saved. yet we have no scripture that says

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii In that way of arguing, then men are gifted to lead o

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii In that way of arguing, then men are gifted to lead other men (excluding women and children and teenagers). Last I checked, men seem to believe they get to lead everyone as

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii How is it 'more egalitarian'? Scripture commands us a

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii How is it 'more egalitarian'? Scripture commands us all to love. If men struggle more with love, why doesn't this exclude them from leadership? See how this works?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii I think we still struggle with the same problems. But

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii I think we still struggle with the same problems. But the issue I have with how this is characterized is that this is somehow proof that women cannot co-lead their families

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@Whitehorse1255 @MikeWingerii That they have different 'expression' when it come

@Whitehorse1255 @MikeWingerii That they have different 'expression' when it comes to leadership doesn't mean that one is allowed to be a leader or elder and the other is not.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii Interesting you frame gender roles as coming from a dictionary def

@MikeWingerii Interesting you frame gender roles as coming from a dictionary definition. No such definition for male-only authority or leadership exists.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii If you lovingly discuss matters and she is not convinced, authorit

@MikeWingerii If you lovingly discuss matters and she is not convinced, authority says she has to comply because of the authority. This is not true leadership. Leadership is serving by example.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii Authority is commanding demons to leave and they leave. Leadershi

@MikeWingerii Authority is commanding demons to leave and they leave. Leadership is service not command and control. Complementarians misunderstand leadership.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii Leading is encouraging your family to vote. How you vote should be

@MikeWingerii Leading is encouraging your family to vote. How you vote should be your personal conviction. Leading is not control or authority.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii No I am not. You have no right to judge my inner motives as no one knows them except myself and God and those to whom either reveals them. A chronological order of creation does not confer authority of the earlier over t...

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii No I am not. You have no right to judge my inner motives as no one knows them except myself and God and those to whom either reveals them. A chronological order of creati

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God doesn't forbid. We need those differences for a tru...

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@carol66944 @Crystalisives @CherylSchatz It is not made up, it is a reasonable inference from the text. But what is not reasonable is when people think that it is because Adam is male that males alone are to protect or because he was created first o...

@carol66944 @Crystalisives @CherylSchatz It is not made up, it is a reasonable inference from the text. But what is not reasonable is when people think that it is because Adam is male that males alon

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 Government doesn't restrain evil? Really? The Christian may silence

@carol66944 Government doesn't restrain evil? Really? The Christian may silence the objections of foolish people, but it doesn't stop the thief from stealing. Only the government has the authority to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-18

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii Mike is complementarian and believes that it is the

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii Mike is complementarian and believes that it is the man's responsibility alone to be an elder and to be the final authority in the home. https://t.co/mcCOGijq3H

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-17

@Robert_S_Morley @Protestia Well, I’m a Canadian, and my pastor doesn’t talk about Trump. So I’m not directly involved, but I do have opinions. I’m not ignoring biblically sound requirements ‘that should be expected from any human leader.’ No one is ...

@Robert_S_Morley @Protestia Well, I’m a Canadian, and my pastor doesn’t talk about Trump. So I’m not directly involved, but I do have opinions. I’m not ignoring biblically sound requirements ‘that sho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-17

@Robert_S_Morley @Protestia Hm. I think it’s more the other way around. I think you forget that it’s not about voting in a pastor or a morally perfect leader. Trump certainly has issues and a prickly personality (especially if you want him dead or sh...

@Robert_S_Morley @Protestia Hm. I think it’s more the other way around. I think you forget that it’s not about voting in a pastor or a morally perfect leader. Trump certainly has issues and a prickly

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-15

@Methodios007 You only need read them and compare and test them to the OT. Like

@Methodios007 You only need read them and compare and test them to the OT. Like the Bereans who didn't appeal to any other authority. If it worked for the Bereans, it's good enough for us too.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 Well, the basis of your authority is a bishop. If he goes off base

@Methodios007 Well, the basis of your authority is a bishop. If he goes off base, do you take his word over the Bible? If not then you go back to the Bible just like me. If yes, then your authority is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 Well, yes, that’s true, but I can see from scripture that these te

@Methodios007 Well, yes, that’s true, but I can see from scripture that these terms are not meant to be some sort of authority title but a position of service where the terms describe different aspect

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@BahBahBased @smashbaals I am convinced by scripture that women are not excluded

@BahBahBased @smashbaals I am convinced by scripture that women are not excluded from serving as elders or pastoral work like counselling or leadership roles.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@BahBahBased @smashbaals No, I am not. Pastoring is counselling and guiding and leading by example, all things that elders, overseers or shepherds do. Females are not exempt from these roles. In fact, it is far better for a female to be counseled by ...

@BahBahBased @smashbaals No, I am not. Pastoring is counselling and guiding and leading by example, all things that elders, overseers or shepherds do. Females are not exempt from these roles. In fact,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 The Greek word πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros), which literally means "elder" is used to denote someone recognized with wisdom and the ability to lead and teach and with godly character. The term for overseer is ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) which t...

@Methodios007 The Greek word πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros), which literally means "elder" is used to denote someone recognized with wisdom and the ability to lead and teach and with godly character. The

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 I don’t follow a church that calls themselves the right church bec

@Methodios007 I don’t follow a church that calls themselves the right church because they have an extrabiblical succession. The succession is not the problem, but the assertion that I have to follow w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 Orthodoxy simply means correct doctrine. Orthopraxy means right pr

@Methodios007 Orthodoxy simply means correct doctrine. Orthopraxy means right practice. The right practice is to stick to scripture as your sole authority, not extra-biblical tradititions.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-13

@Area121086136 @smashbaals Yes, that’s the definition of authority. But God has

@Area121086136 @smashbaals Yes, that’s the definition of authority. But God has not given husbands the power to give orders to his wife. Submission is not one way but mutual (Eph 5:21)—it means servin

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-11

@Area121086136 @smashbaals You are interpreting the meaning of head to mean auth

@Area121086136 @smashbaals You are interpreting the meaning of head to mean authority which is not the sense in the context.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-11

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Wives have *two* heads—as Eve was created by Christ (her primary source or head) from Adam’s flesh and bone (her second source or head). Therefore she has the authority over her own h...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Wives have *two* heads—as Eve was created by Christ (her primary source or head) from Adam’s flesh and bone (her second source or hea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-11

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals No, I already showed that in Eph 1:22 it is not authority and not head *over* the church but showing that Jesus is primary over all things for the benefit of the church. And I already...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals No, I already showed that in Eph 1:22 it is not authority and not head *over* the church but showing that Jesus is primary over all t

Eph 1:22 1Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Eph 1:22 actu

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Eph 1:22 actually says, “…and made Him head over all things **to** the church”—not head over the church but for the church. If Paul

Eph 1:22 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Yes, v3 and v

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Yes, v3 and v12 are consistent—it’s not about authority.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals More accurate

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals More accurately he never uses the term authority for the man over his wife.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@MikeWingerii Not for church leadership. Question: can you show a case where an

@MikeWingerii Not for church leadership. Question: can you show a case where an unbeliever with two wives is forced to divorce one if he becomes a Christian?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals None of the t

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals None of the things you quoted say or mean authority. That is not the sense of the word kephale in these contexts.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals No, that’s you reading into the text. Headship is origin or priority not authority. God gave Adam more experience as he saw God creating things and so God prepared him to not be decei...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals No, that’s you reading into the text. Headship is origin or priority not authority. God gave Adam more experience as he saw God creat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Being the head can mean being first or given priority. It doesn’t therefore mean authority over like a master/slave. “To the Jew first then the Gentile” means the Jew is the head. Tha...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Being the head can mean being first or given priority. It doesn’t therefore mean authority over like a master/slave. “To the Jew firs

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals That the husband is the “head” of the wife has nothing to do with authority but the fact that rush always goes back to the first instance where the husband’s flesh and bone was the so...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals That the husband is the “head” of the wife has nothing to do with authority but the fact that rush always goes back to the first inst

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Teaching othe

@squidgy201 @alhakim120000 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Teaching others is not taking authority over them though. And it would apply any human to any human not just male -> female.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@LM4819962872993 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning In Ge 1:28 God commanded both the man and the woman to rule over creation. The fact that Adam was created first on day 6 and Eve hours later from his own flesh and bones (and not from the ...

@LM4819962872993 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning In Ge 1:28 God commanded both the man and the woman to rule over creation. The fact that Adam was created first on day 6 and Eve hours lat

Ge 1:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@LM4819962872993 @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Also, head (kephale in Greek) doesn’t mean “authority over”—that meaning is being inferred as we use the word head in that way. But it could simply mean prominent, first, source or origin. Regarding m...

@LM4819962872993 @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Also, head (kephale in Greek) doesn’t mean “authority over”—that meaning is being inferred as we use the word head in that way. But it could simply me

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@LM4819962872993 @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Well, yes, I think the English translation here is misleading. The English isn’t inspired and translators can have bias. No man is the head of the church except Christ—and this is because by His deat...

@LM4819962872993 @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Well, yes, I think the English translation here is misleading. The English isn’t inspired and translators can have bias. No man is the head of the ch

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@Milocinia @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii That verse doesn’t say “an elder must not be a woman”—there is no verse that says a man is allowed to authentein anyone either. Jesus said clearly that whoever wants to be the greatest should be the slave of a...

@Milocinia @spencer_newell @MikeWingerii That verse doesn’t say “an elder must not be a woman”—there is no verse that says a man is allowed to authentein anyone either. Jesus said clearly that whoever

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@LM4819962872993 @MikeWingerii There’s a word commonly used for authority, and a

@LM4819962872993 @MikeWingerii There’s a word commonly used for authority, and authentein isn’t that word. There’s clearly something else going on in Ti 2:11-15. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-07

@1deaman @ProGloriaRegis @SamAshCast @Brian_Sauve No, I’m not ignoring the entire Bible. 1. For 1Ti 2:11-15 see below. 2. Jesus chose the 12 before the church was formed. They were also all Jewish but this doesn’t mean all leaders afterwards had to...

@1deaman @ProGloriaRegis @SamAshCast @Brian_Sauve No, I’m not ignoring the entire Bible. 1. For 1Ti 2:11-15 see below. 2. Jesus chose the 12 before the church was formed. They were also all Jewish b

1Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@ThomisticRednek @AnneEChisholm @FrMatthewLC The evil of excluding gifted and qu

@ThomisticRednek @AnneEChisholm @FrMatthewLC The evil of excluding gifted and qualified women from leadership does not prevail as they are able to find another church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@vivicom1230123 @Riley_Gaines_ What? Did she take authority over you or just say

@vivicom1230123 @Riley_Gaines_ What? Did she take authority over you or just say something true?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@robertbrln @ClintHumfrey I think @ClintHumfrey is ok with women teaching just not holding office of elder. But if they can teach and correct (and have the requisite character and gifting) why can’t they lead? He even thinks they can be deacons who ...

@robertbrln @ClintHumfrey I think @ClintHumfrey is ok with women teaching just not holding office of elder. But if they can teach and correct (and have the requisite character and gifting) why can’t t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-05

@maclellanjames @ClintHumfrey That’s a great video! If only more complementarian

@maclellanjames @ClintHumfrey That’s a great video! If only more complementarians treated women as complementary counterparts in leadership and ministry.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-05

@ClintHumfrey I fail to see how there are categories being created outside of th

@ClintHumfrey I fail to see how there are categories being created outside of the Bible’s. The category is leadership, not “male” leadership.

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