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@HalalFinisher That passage is dealing with a specific deceived woman teaching i

@HalalFinisher That passage is dealing with a specific deceived woman teaching in Ephesus who is off the reservation and committing spiritual murder over her husband who is not deceived. Paul is not

@noah_jesusfreak That passage is referring to a specific deceived woman teaching in Ephesus who is off the reservation and committing spiritual murder over her husband who is not deceived. It is not intended by Paul to stop women from teaching true ...

@noah_jesusfreak That passage is referring to a specific deceived woman teaching in Ephesus who is off the reservation and committing spiritual murder over her husband who is not deceived. It is not

@JulieParker144 “She [singular, only the deceived woman is not saved] will be saved [future tense (so cannot be Eve)] through the childbearing [definite article + noun, NOT a verb] if they [plural, the woman and her husband] continue in faith, love a...

@JulieParker144 “She [singular, only the deceived woman is not saved] will be saved [future tense (so cannot be Eve)] through the childbearing [definite article + noun, NOT a verb] if they [plural, th

1 Tim 2:15 general

@darylsterk @EKHyland Take a look at this thread. Paul left Timothy to stop false teaching in Ephesus, not to stop women from teaching true doctrine. There is a deceived woman who is off the reservation and she is ‘committing spiritual murder’ over...

@darylsterk @EKHyland Take a look at this thread. Paul left Timothy to stop false teaching in Ephesus, not to stop women from teaching true doctrine. There is a deceived woman who is off the reserva

@DickSaban1 @PubliusJosephus @njbemont Elders are required to be able to teach,

@DickSaban1 @PubliusJosephus @njbemont Elders are required to be able to teach, not deacons. Deacons are appointed for works of service.

@PubliusJosephus @njbemont @DickSaban1 Someone who serves as a leader of others is serving in the office of deacon. “that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you...

@PubliusJosephus @njbemont @DickSaban1 Someone who serves as a leader of others is serving in the office of deacon. “that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you he

@TaylorRMarshall Paul, Jude, Peter all talk about false teachers and false teach

@TaylorRMarshall Paul, Jude, Peter all talk about false teachers and false teaching. We need to test them against the Bible, not against the Roman Catholic magesterium.

@TakTik227f1 @droolycat @KaitlynSchiess 1 Tim 2:12⎯Paul is addressing a specific deceived woman who was teaching false doctrine. He left Timothy behind in Ephesus to correct situations like this. "The man" is not in the definite here, it is "a man"...

@TakTik227f1 @droolycat @KaitlynSchiess 1 Tim 2:12⎯Paul is addressing a specific deceived woman who was teaching false doctrine. He left Timothy behind in Ephesus to correct situations like this. "T

1 Tim 2:12 general

@TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess In vv34-35, women are referred to in third person plural; in v36, the 'you' is second person plural. The question is to the men who are silencing the women. Paul is saying "If they won't listen to my instructions about ...

@TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess In vv34-35, women are referred to in third person plural; in v36, the 'you' is second person plural. The question is to the men who are silencing the women. Paul is sayi

@DST_QA Frequently masculine is used for a mixed audience, so you have to determine these things by context. In this case, it would be certain men who are restricting half of the body from speaking in the assembly, so Paul would be addressing those ...

@DST_QA Frequently masculine is used for a mixed audience, so you have to determine these things by context. In this case, it would be certain men who are restricting half of the body from speaking i

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@Furly43974976 @_nomadic_soul That's certainly a good point if we are talking ab

@Furly43974976 @_nomadic_soul That's certainly a good point if we are talking about someone who attends your church who is talking about you this way online. I had this happen to me. It made things

@Ro12Two @barrowboy42 @nickmobrien This is the wrong idea of what it means to be the Biblical 'head' or κεφαλὴ. Marriage always goes back to Eden, and in Eden we see the following: 1. Man came first (that doesn't mean he has authority over the wife ...

@Ro12Two @barrowboy42 @nickmobrien This is the wrong idea of what it means to be the Biblical 'head' or κεφαλὴ. Marriage always goes back to Eden, and in Eden we see the following: 1. Man came first

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien You have to go back to scripture to test all things. If the Apostle Paul himself⎯and even angels⎯ are subject to scripture, then so is the Roman Catholic Church. “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel o...

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien You have to go back to scripture to test all things. If the Apostle Paul himself⎯and even angels⎯ are subject to scripture, then so is the Roman Catholic Church. “But even if w

@granato50 @RevJamesCollazo @AnthonyJMHoward @JHF46thPotus @TaylorRMarshall The

@granato50 @RevJamesCollazo @AnthonyJMHoward @JHF46thPotus @TaylorRMarshall The apostles argued for Christ as Messiah from the Old Testament. They still had a Bible, even though the eyewitness testim

@granato50 @TaylorRMarshall Wow, now quoting scripture is heresy! Where's that

@granato50 @TaylorRMarshall Wow, now quoting scripture is heresy! Where's that stake and fire again...

@5f6e9a3b5965407 @TaylorRMarshall Except you didn't get the idea that Mary was w

@5f6e9a3b5965407 @TaylorRMarshall Except you didn't get the idea that Mary was without sin from scripture, did you?

@gray_jedi_ @_nomadic_soul If you know someone in your fellowship thinks you are a false believer, that would be hard. I experienced this too. Even Paul talks about being in danger from 'false brethren' so it is not unexpected that this can happen....

@gray_jedi_ @_nomadic_soul If you know someone in your fellowship thinks you are a false believer, that would be hard. I experienced this too. Even Paul talks about being in danger from 'false breth

1 Cor 14:34-35 1 Cor 7:1 1 Tim 2:11-15 general

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess That’s not true. > In 1 Cor 14:34-35 Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (ref 1 Cor 7:1) and refuting the idea that women must be silent and not actively participate. > In 1 Tim 2:11...

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess That’s not true. > In 1 Cor 14:34-35 Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (ref 1 Cor 7:1) and refuting the idea that women must be silen

@AnthonyJMHoward @TaylorRMarshall So you don’t listen to your own Bible which sa

@AnthonyJMHoward @TaylorRMarshall So you don’t listen to your own Bible which says that everyone is a sinner? Is that not in your Bible?

@_nomadic_soul I see. This is someone from your former church then? I've had t

@_nomadic_soul I see. This is someone from your former church then? I've had that happen to me too. I ended up having to leave that church, but we are in another one now and it is much better.

@DST_QA I think that Paul was taking into consideration the difficulties and persecutions they would face and wanted to spare them. “But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face...

@DST_QA I think that Paul was taking into consideration the difficulties and persecutions they would face and wanted to spare them. “But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries,

@_nomadic_soul Ok, but its online... Does that happen in church? Most people w

@_nomadic_soul Ok, but its online... Does that happen in church? Most people who hide behind a screen don't have the guts to say stuff like that in person.

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess No, that's not what is going on here. Equal treatment is not the same as modern feminism. I am upholding God's word, not the doctrines of men which hold back half of the body of Christ from participating...

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess No, that's not what is going on here. Equal treatment is not the same as modern feminism. I am upholding God's word, not the doctrines of men which hold

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess That verse says "a woman". You cannot make it plural when it is singular. This is Paul's grammar and yes, its complicated, but Paul tended to write some things that are hard to understand (2 Pet 3:16). ...

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess That verse says "a woman". You cannot make it plural when it is singular. This is Paul's grammar and yes, its complicated, but Paul tended to write some

2 Pet 3:16 debate

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess Hmm. The doctrines of Jezebel are

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess Hmm. The doctrines of Jezebel are women teaching true doctrine, exhorting other believers and encouraging the saints? Please just think for a minute at w

@DST_QA I'm glad you found this helpful. Paul uses the third person plural to refer to the women in vv34-35, but the second person plural in the "you" of v36. It would be rather odd if Paul were commanding about women and then rebuking them and cha...

@DST_QA I'm glad you found this helpful. Paul uses the third person plural to refer to the women in vv34-35, but the second person plural in the "you" of v36. It would be rather odd if Paul were com

@DST_QA We know women can be prophets elsewhere in scripture, so "you can all pr

@DST_QA We know women can be prophets elsewhere in scripture, so "you can all prophesy" would have to have "you males can all prophesy" to make it clear. Because "God is not a God of confusion, but o

1 Cor 14:33 debate

@DST_QA You can certainly spend time together with God. I think maybe a better

@DST_QA You can certainly spend time together with God. I think maybe a better phrasing is that you cannot fully devote yourself to the ministry as you have a wife and a family to take care of. This

@DST_QA It is not about authority or assuming authority. You appear to be connecting this to 1 Tim 2:12, but that is dealt with in another thread. What makes perfect sense is that the Jewish men who need to pray and do their readings with a pure st...

@DST_QA It is not about authority or assuming authority. You appear to be connecting this to 1 Tim 2:12, but that is dealt with in another thread. What makes perfect sense is that the Jewish men who

1 Tim 2:12 debate

@DST_QA "...the women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says." (v34) This is saying that the Law "also" says the same thing as summarized previously. Where d...

@DST_QA "...the women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says." (v34) This is saying that the Law "also" says

@DST_QA But that's my point, the context and the details of vv34-35 clearly show

@DST_QA But that's my point, the context and the details of vv34-35 clearly shows us that Paul is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote.

@DST_QA MacArther doesn't think this passage excludes women from literally speaking because that seems way over the top and he certainly reads other scriptures which clearly have women praying and prophesying...so he has to find some other way to int...

@DST_QA MacArther doesn't think this passage excludes women from literally speaking because that seems way over the top and he certainly reads other scriptures which clearly have women praying and pro

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1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Tim 3:1-13 general

@JayMuratore Thanks for sharing your article. I go through Ephesians 5, 1 Tim 2:11-15 (and Gen 1-3), and 1 Tim 3:1-13 in my thread below. If you have something specific you want to respond to, please reply where I address it as it doesn't make sens...

@JayMuratore Thanks for sharing your article. I go through Ephesians 5, 1 Tim 2:11-15 (and Gen 1-3), and 1 Tim 3:1-13 in my thread below. If you have something specific you want to respond to, pleas

@TakTik227f1 @Genichiro42069 @KaitlynSchiess Just reading my Bible....carefully.

@KaeleyT If Paul said "Yet I wish that all were even as [he] himself is" and "I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I" then being single is not a sin or a problem that has to be fixed unless you do not h...

@KaeleyT If Paul said "Yet I wish that all were even as [he] himself is" and "I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I" then being single is not a sin or

@Genichiro42069 @TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess It is kinda funny that you think th

@Genichiro42069 @TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess It is kinda funny that you think that teaching is only for men.

1 Cor 11:5 1 Cor 14:31 debate

@TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess So Paul means that only the men can prophecy and only the men can learn? But Paul assumes women are praying and prophesying in the congregation in 1 Cor 11:5. Why does he say all in 1 Cor 14:31 and not "all males"? Wha...

@TakTik227f1 @KaitlynSchiess So Paul means that only the men can prophecy and only the men can learn? But Paul assumes women are praying and prophesying in the congregation in 1 Cor 11:5. Why does h

@steelmann777 @TheSBCPlatform @BaptistPress @sbcamendment No, Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (see 1 Cor 7:1) and refuting their silencing of women. "What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto you [men] only?...

@steelmann777 @TheSBCPlatform @BaptistPress @sbcamendment No, Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians (see 1 Cor 7:1) and refuting their silencing of women. "What? came the word of God o

1 Cor 7:1 question

@confilmbuff No, I don't think you can conclude from the textual evidence that these verses are spurious. They make the most sense where they are as Paul is quoting from the letter written by the Corinthians to him and refuting them. See v36... "W...

@confilmbuff No, I don't think you can conclude from the textual evidence that these verses are spurious. They make the most sense where they are as Paul is quoting from the letter written by the Cor

@calvinrobinson @seatradelaw Christ also chose 12 Jewish males, so that must mea

@calvinrobinson @seatradelaw Christ also chose 12 Jewish males, so that must mean that only Jewish men can teach in the church? The apostles were chosen before the start of the church. https://t.co/0

@father_rmv Except that the Bible says we are part of a kingdom of priests... "

@father_rmv Except that the Bible says we are part of a kingdom of priests... "...To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Paul said that he wished they were all single as he was (1 Co

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Paul said that he wished they were all single as he was (1 Cor 7:7). What happens to single women or barren women or widows?

1 Cor 7:7 question

@SetApart4Him44 @andijen88 @MiaGoss44 @MadKneetoe Paul is referring to a specific deceived woman in Ephesus who is teaching false doctrine and her husband who is not deceived is silent just like the prototype couple in Eden. Paul is not preventing w...

@SetApart4Him44 @andijen88 @MiaGoss44 @MadKneetoe Paul is referring to a specific deceived woman in Ephesus who is teaching false doctrine and her husband who is not deceived is silent just like the p

@MiaGoss44 @andijen88 @MadKneetoe It says "a man" or "a husband"...where did you

@MiaGoss44 @andijen88 @MadKneetoe It says "a man" or "a husband"...where did you see "any"? https://t.co/5SIvOlLRLd

@MiaGoss44 @andijen88 @MadKneetoe That's not what this passage means. No one is

@MiaGoss44 @andijen88 @MadKneetoe That's not what this passage means. No one is being prevented from using God's word correctly to rebuke/teach/correct anyone. https://t.co/LPisirHz38

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@Ro12Two @nickmobrien What if complementarians are wrong and are perverting God'

@Ro12Two @nickmobrien What if complementarians are wrong and are perverting God's original design for humanity and His intention for His church? https://t.co/LPisirHz38

@JBenSimpson @DuletzkeMelanie @pastordmack Not even men are supposed to exercise

@JBenSimpson @DuletzkeMelanie @pastordmack Not even men are supposed to exercise 'authentein' over anyone. If the great commission applies to everyone, any believer can disciple anyone, male or femal

1 Tim 2:11-15 general

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Since it is so obvious to you, what does 1 Tim 2:15 mean? Look at the grammar: “She [singular] will be saved [future] through the childbearing [definite article + noun, NOT a verb] if they [plural] continue in faith, love and san...

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Since it is so obvious to you, what does 1 Tim 2:15 mean? Look at the grammar: “She [singular] will be saved [future] through the childbearing [definite article + noun, NOT a verb

1 Tim 2:15 question

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Disagreeing based on a careful interpretation of scripture is

@RitsuBreh @Mcn_xd Disagreeing based on a careful interpretation of scripture is not apostasy.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-09

@obodo719 @andijen88 @Jesusmyoverseer Take another look at this passage. It's saying something different than what you think. Paul is addressing a specific deceived woman teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus and her husband who is not d...

@obodo719 @andijen88 @Jesusmyoverseer Take another look at this passage. It's saying something different than what you think. Paul is addressing a specific deceived woman teaching false doctrine in