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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-28

@ymmotrojam @pastherandie @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals So the whole congregation includes the women, right? How is it that he talks about them TO them? He tells the women to silence the women? If that's the case and he includes the women in v36...

@ymmotrojam @pastherandie @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals So the whole congregation includes the women, right? How is it that he talks about them TO them? He tells the women to silence the women? I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-28

@ymmotrojam @pastherandie @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals Tom ⎯ who in your view is Paul supposedly talking to in v34-35 and who is being spoken to in v36? In v34-35, it is speaking of the women in 3rd person plural, but the "you" in v36 is 2nd pers...

@ymmotrojam @pastherandie @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals Tom ⎯ who in your view is Paul supposedly talking to in v34-35 and who is being spoken to in v36? In v34-35, it is speaking of the women in 3

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-27

@kriesese @pastherandie @ronhenzel @smashbaals Paul’s use of that idiom does not mean a married man…else Paul (and Timothy) would be excluded. By the same reasoning, neither is this excluding women. Paul did not say “must not be a woman,” but is sayi...

@kriesese @pastherandie @ronhenzel @smashbaals Paul’s use of that idiom does not mean a married man…else Paul (and Timothy) would be excluded. By the same reasoning, neither is this excluding women. P

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-27

@ymmotrojam @914Ann @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals Right because women are nev

@ymmotrojam @914Ann @ronhenzel @kriesese @smashbaals Right because women are never meant to share a hymn or a lesson in front of the whole group, just small groups… Must never let a woman encourage th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-27

@LukeMasonVO @kriesese @smashbaals I’m actually asking them to people like you who should be better at reading Paul. Does Paul say non-sensical things? Does he contradict himself even in the very same portion of text (see 1Co 14:31 which says that al...

@LukeMasonVO @kriesese @smashbaals I’m actually asking them to people like you who should be better at reading Paul. Does Paul say non-sensical things? Does he contradict himself even in the very same

1Co 14:31 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-26

@MikedAlamo @MikeWingerii I already noted in a personal appeal to Mike that he can remain a complementarian. What he cannot do, however, is call fellow believers to repent over secondary matters, pressing his conscience on others who disagree with h...

@MikedAlamo @MikeWingerii I already noted in a personal appeal to Mike that he can remain a complementarian. What he cannot do, however, is call fellow believers to repent over secondary matters, pre

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-22

@Joshbambino Husbands should also submit to unbelieving wives for the very same

@Joshbambino Husbands should also submit to unbelieving wives for the very same reasons.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@lunarCelerity Here are a few reasons. In Greek, word ordering isn’t the same as in English. There is no boldface so by putting a word first you emphasize it like bolding. Most translators are men and they come to the text with a bias towards men and...

@lunarCelerity Here are a few reasons. In Greek, word ordering isn’t the same as in English. There is no boldface so by putting a word first you emphasize it like bolding. Most translators are men and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel What purpose is Paul conveying to Timothy by waxing spiritual about the singular/plural nature of the church? This is a personal and somewhat urgent instruction letter to Timothy due to his concern about the false teaching an...

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel What purpose is Paul conveying to Timothy by waxing spiritual about the singular/plural nature of the church? This is a personal and somewhat urgent instruction letter to Timo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@ronhenzel Especially in the context where we have *two* anarthrous nouns. How do we decide? What is Paul intending in the context? Why not the personal pronoun? How is a generic woman saved through ‘the childbearing’ when not all women bear children...

@ronhenzel Especially in the context where we have *two* anarthrous nouns. How do we decide? What is Paul intending in the context? Why not the personal pronoun? How is a generic woman saved through ‘

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@ronhenzel @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Ron, this is not a defeater of my assertion that “the woman” is an anaphoric reference to “a woman.” Without v14 and the article, we would have more reason to consider vs11-12 ...

@ronhenzel @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Ron, this is not a defeater of my assertion that “the woman” is an anaphoric reference to “a woman.” Without v14 and the artic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@corefaithbishop @johnmarkallen @MikeWingerii You are a great complementarian. K

@corefaithbishop @johnmarkallen @MikeWingerii You are a great complementarian. Keep it up! The Christ/church picture demonstrates mutual submission, not one person with the trump card over the other.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@TarienCole @MikeWingerii @JollyStine “I think men should have short hair still”

@TarienCole @MikeWingerii @JollyStine “I think men should have short hair still” How long was Jesus’ hair? How about John the Baptist who never cut his hair? Samson? Absalom? Anyone taking a Nazarite

Ac 18:18 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@TarienCole @JollyStine @MikeWingerii A woman who had an unbelieving husband was to have the authority over *her own* head to decide whether to wear a covering or not. The reason was because she has two heads, Christ and her husband, and Paul—by comm...

@TarienCole @JollyStine @MikeWingerii A woman who had an unbelieving husband was to have the authority over *her own* head to decide whether to wear a covering or not. The reason was because she has t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@Song_Never_Ends @MartinGloba Where is “clergy” in the Bible? And where does it

@Song_Never_Ends @MartinGloba Where is “clergy” in the Bible? And where does it say this is limited to males?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@smashbaals @bornagainbrett So that’s the only reason people go to seminary, huh

@smashbaals @bornagainbrett So that’s the only reason people go to seminary, huh? They don’t just want to be better theologians and interpreters of the word? Even in your view, what about women teachi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@GlennDavies @SwordMasterPub Hi Glenn. Indeed the 12 apostles are all Jewish males. They were appointed before the church. And description is not a prescription as Jesus may have had some symbolic reason for picking just 12 and all males. In Revelati...

@GlennDavies @SwordMasterPub Hi Glenn. Indeed the 12 apostles are all Jewish males. They were appointed before the church. And description is not a prescription as Jesus may have had some symbolic rea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@SwordMasterPub @StevenMKestner Peter was (1Pe 5:1). What reason would you say P

@SwordMasterPub @StevenMKestner Peter was (1Pe 5:1). What reason would you say Paul was not acting as an overseer?

1Pe 5:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @pastherandie @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii That’s what we are debating. Some think the reason is because women are more emotional or more easily deceived. You agree tha...

@peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @pastherandie @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii That’s what we are debating. Some think the reason is because women are mor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel However, this is not “head speech”, it is instruction-to-Timothy speech which is the one who is commissioned to stop the false teaching and the false teachers at Ephesus. Would you at least grant that I have a grammat...

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel However, this is not “head speech”, it is instruction-to-Timothy speech which is the one who is commissioned to stop the false teaching and the false teachers at Ephesu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@EkIesou @ronhenzel James appears to be having grammar issues right now… At any rate, his teaching on the anaphoric use of the article is solid and it most certainly could be applied to this case. He chooses not to for whatever reason. Paul’s shift...

@EkIesou @ronhenzel James appears to be having grammar issues right now… At any rate, his teaching on the anaphoric use of the article is solid and it most certainly could be applied to this case. He

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@peace_got Saul was called a pastor? Matthew? Arguably Jesus told Peter to shepherd so you did find the only instance of a specific NT person given this task. Since the role of a pastor is what Smash seems to be concerned about, how is that proof th...

@peace_got Saul was called a pastor? Matthew? Arguably Jesus told Peter to shepherd so you did find the only instance of a specific NT person given this task. Since the role of a pastor is what Smash

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@amoree @MikeWingerii No, that would be very unwise of me. Of course I have much

@amoree @MikeWingerii No, that would be very unwise of me. Of course I have much Biblically faithful reasons why I disagree with his view that God ordains Gender-based authority hierarchy. You can sta

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@SolaChristus7 @haymes_joshua Please show me where you see authority hiearchy in Gen 1-2. There is no evidence in the text for it; each person (God, Adam, Eve and the Serpent) don't seem to act like Adam is the authority over Eve. God commands both t...

@SolaChristus7 @haymes_joshua Please show me where you see authority hiearchy in Gen 1-2. There is no evidence in the text for it; each person (God, Adam, Eve and the Serpent) don't seem to act like A

Gen 3:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@avyargo @JollyStine @ScottCross_8 @plumlee_ann @MikeWingerii Paul wasn’t a husband. Was he disqualifying himself, or do you think he didn’t mean must be married? By the same reasoning, is it impossible to you that he didn’t mean “must not be a woman...

@avyargo @JollyStine @ScottCross_8 @plumlee_ann @MikeWingerii Paul wasn’t a husband. Was he disqualifying himself, or do you think he didn’t mean must be married? By the same reasoning, is it impossib

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

The reason he leaves is because the first woman was taken out of the first man.

The reason he leaves is because the first woman was taken out of the first man. He leaves because the woman was sourced in the man. In other words, he initiates to show the source relationship betwee

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

Let's look at the text: "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mothe

Let's look at the text: "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." (Gen 2:24, NASB) Notice how it is the man who leaves, n

Gen 2:24 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeW

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Where does the Bible say such things like what you said below? It says rather that it’s Adam’s sin that is the r

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii So men are never usurping authority? Also where is this idea of a place of authority in the church even established that merely standing in it usurps it? All of this seems to be based on a conjectural int...

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii So men are never usurping authority? Also where is this idea of a place of authority in the church even established that merely standing in it usurps it?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@BarnabasBr30151 @EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Paul doesn’t need

@BarnabasBr30151 @EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Paul doesn’t need to be called an elder/overseer to evidently be one. It is more than evident by his actions and oversight of many church

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii Oh wow…it takes strong women to get men to not allow women? That’s ironic. Remind me again…where is this command in the Bible? 1Ti 2:12 is not a command (not in the imperative). And a command that include...

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii Oh wow…it takes strong women to get men to not allow women? That’s ironic. Remind me again…where is this command in the Bible? 1Ti 2:12 is not a command (

1Ti 2:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@avyargo @MikeWingerii This isn’t the same as Uzziah as there were explicit inst

@avyargo @MikeWingerii This isn’t the same as Uzziah as there were explicit instructions David disregarded. Show me the commandment prohibiting women from serving as elders or from preaching? Where’s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii Wow. That’s pretty strong. So a go

@mythreesonsb @EtAbundatGratia @MikeWingerii Wow. That’s pretty strong. So a godly woman preaching truth is sinning. That’s a first I read that anywhere in the Bible…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@ChrisAndJones @MikeWingerii That’s correct. He only says Paul prohibits women from being elders or acting/speaking in such a way that they would be confused as elders. But that’s not what Paul is prohibiting. Paul’s personal letter to Timothy is to ...

@ChrisAndJones @MikeWingerii That’s correct. He only says Paul prohibits women from being elders or acting/speaking in such a way that they would be confused as elders. But that’s not what Paul is pro

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii I think in this case the ignorant one was the woman and the non-ignorant ones were two men. Because its a personal letter to Timothy and they spent significant time together, how Paul wrote it for Timothy ...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii I think in this case the ignorant one was the woman and the non-ignorant ones were two men. Because its a personal letter to Timothy and they spent signifi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Whoops... haha. Sorry, read too fast. 1Ti 2:12 doesn't say "must not be a woman" but "I do not permit a woman to teach or authentein a man." Paul doesn't mean a woman cannot teach truth to a man as a Bere...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Whoops... haha. Sorry, read too fast. 1Ti 2:12 doesn't say "must not be a woman" but "I do not permit a woman to teach or authentein a man." Paul doesn't

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Yes, that too. But he is referring

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Yes, that too. But he is referring to certain ones who have strayed as this is why he left him behind in Ephesus⎯to deal with the false teachers.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii The context to chapter 2 starts in the first chapter. Paul wrote this personal letter to Timothy for a reason, and it was to stop "certain people" from teaching strange doctrines, not to stop anyone from t...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii The context to chapter 2 starts in the first chapter. Paul wrote this personal letter to Timothy for a reason, and it was to stop "certain people" from tea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii ...which immediately follows Paul's clear intent on why he wrote this personal letter to Timothy: “Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct ce...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii ...which immediately follows Paul's clear intent on why he wrote this personal letter to Timothy: “Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii You sounded like you know where wom

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii You sounded like you know where women are prohibited from being elders. I'm confused... Ok, here's how I parse it. https://t.co/QkexDUhLnJ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Really? Which translation are you getting that from? Is there an imperative for the command ('must not')? To exclude females, he would have to say "must not be a woman." It's not there...or anywhere. Here...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Really? Which translation are you getting that from? Is there an imperative for the command ('must not')? To exclude females, he would have to say "must no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii It is fairly normal in language to use the male construction if including both male and female. I can show you examples where aner, the word for male/husband is used to refer to person or people. To exclu...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii It is fairly normal in language to use the male construction if including both male and female. I can show you examples where aner, the word for male/husba

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@EtAbundatGratia @BarnabasBr30151 @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Actually, I’m more

@EtAbundatGratia @BarnabasBr30151 @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Actually, I’m more carefully considering the totality of Paul’s teaching and behaviour as well as the audience, context and specific gramm

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@EtAbundatGratia @BarnabasBr30151 @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii A woman cannot be a husband and no one should be confusing between male and female. Yet just as Paul wasn’t a husband and still qualifies, this shows it’s not about male/female but about f...

@EtAbundatGratia @BarnabasBr30151 @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii A woman cannot be a husband and no one should be confusing between male and female. Yet just as Paul wasn’t a husband and still qualifies,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii There’s no imperative. The context is personal instruction to Timothy on how to deal with an unnamed woman teaching false doctrine. Paul doesn...

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii There’s no imperative. The context is personal instruction to Timothy on how to deal with an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Paul was an overseer and wasn’t a h

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Paul was an overseer and wasn’t a husband. It literally says husband, right? So is Paul disqualified?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Thanks for sharing your disagreement. I totally agree that scripture is true and should be treated as fully inspired in every word (even the grammar). Taken in context and rightly divided, we can fully trust the Bible for...

@mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Thanks for sharing your disagreement. I totally agree that scripture is true and should be treated as fully inspired in every word (even the grammar). Taken in context and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeW

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii This was said of Paul: does it sound like Furtick? “For some say, ‘His letters are weighty and forceful, but in

2Co 10:10 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-13

@peace_got @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Paul it seems identifies himself all the time. Maybe it’s because people were questioning his claim to be an apostle and also because people were impersonating him. The Heb...

@peace_got @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Paul it seems identifies himself all the time. Maybe it’s because people were questioning his claim to be an apostle and a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-13

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Paul makes a very strong statement in 1Co 14:37 that if anyone disregards (to disregard v. — to refuse to acknowledge) the Lord’s commands as given by Paul in the beginning of ch14, then that person is ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Paul makes a very strong statement in 1Co 14:37 that if anyone disregards (to disregard v. — to refuse to acknowledge) the Lord’s commands as given by P

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