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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-07

@OldPhilos @smashbaals First, Timothy is having to deal with a deceived wife teaching false doctrine where her husband is not deceived and silent (similar to what happened in Eden in Gen 3). A sticky situation for young, single Timothy. So Paul gives...

@OldPhilos @smashbaals First, Timothy is having to deal with a deceived wife teaching false doctrine where her husband is not deceived and silent (similar to what happened in Eden in Gen 3). A sticky

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@darylsterk In Wisdom of Solomon 12:6, authentas is used (the accusative plural noun form), whereas in 1Ti 2:12, authentein is a present active infinitive verb form. They are related, and I do agree with you that there is a sense of murder here which...

@darylsterk In Wisdom of Solomon 12:6, authentas is used (the accusative plural noun form), whereas in 1Ti 2:12, authentein is a present active infinitive verb form. They are related, and I do agree w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine I am aware that some actually say Paul is clearly forbidding women but that Paul shouldn't be listened to. This is a very dangerous precedent. I am not saying this at all. Peter says that some things Paul writes are hard to understand. ...

@LovesSardine I am aware that some actually say Paul is clearly forbidding women but that Paul shouldn't be listened to. This is a very dangerous precedent. I am not saying this at all. Peter says tha

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@StandAndKnox Paul links the time sequence order of creation with deception. So we must ask what it was about the time sequence of creation with Adam created, then animals created after Adam as well as the garden trees in Eden and Eve being created v...

@StandAndKnox Paul links the time sequence order of creation with deception. So we must ask what it was about the time sequence of creation with Adam created, then animals created after Adam as well a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@StandAndKnox Paul simply connected this wife who was deceived and her husband (

@StandAndKnox Paul simply connected this wife who was deceived and her husband (not deceived and silent, likely an elder) with the situation in Eden where Adam was informed and silent and only Eve was

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

Paul isn’t abstracting gender roles—he’s connecting Eve’s deception to her lack

Paul isn’t abstracting gender roles—he’s connecting Eve’s deception to her lack of experience and mapping that to a specific deceived woman in Ephesus. He doesn’t name her, but uses Eden as a parallel

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

Since I see Paul addressing a specific situation of a deceived wife teaching heresy and her knowledgeable husband keeping silent, and since Paul links the situation with what happened in Eden connecting creation order with deception, this context str...

Since I see Paul addressing a specific situation of a deceived wife teaching heresy and her knowledgeable husband keeping silent, and since Paul links the situation with what happened in Eden connecti

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching or leading men in every context, but is instead dealing with a specific woman teaching heresy, a situation reminiscent

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

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 ...

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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-29

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does n

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem You mean Paul does not allow that woman in Ephesus to teach heresy? Her husband, likely an elder, was doing and saying nothing—remarkably ju

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Ron, I think this is just confusing. The best way to make everything fit together is to understand a specific woman teaching heresy and Paul linking the situation between this woman and her husband to the f...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi Ron, I think this is just confusing. The best way to make everything fit together is to understand a specific woman teaching heresy and Paul linking the sit

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@Ryan_Adair_A What if Eve was representative of a specific deceived wife teachin

@Ryan_Adair_A What if Eve was representative of a specific deceived wife teaching heresy in Ephesus whose undeceived husband is silent and doing nothing—just like in Gen 3 in Eden?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-31

@StothersRyan @Peacemaker811 No one should be the ruler or authority over their spouse period. And the husband is the head of the wife because marriage goes back to Eden where Adam’s flesh and bone is the source of his wife. Our marriage simply maps ...

@StothersRyan @Peacemaker811 No one should be the ruler or authority over their spouse period. And the husband is the head of the wife because marriage goes back to Eden where Adam’s flesh and bone is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-29

@Grump_Old_Man @Peacemaker811 Because Paul’s description of how there’s a wife teaching false doctrine and a knowledgeable husband who is sitting silent and not doing anything is a situation that parallels what happened in Eden. That was sufficient f...

@Grump_Old_Man @Peacemaker811 Because Paul’s description of how there’s a wife teaching false doctrine and a knowledgeable husband who is sitting silent and not doing anything is a situation that para

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-26

@TheRednartso @HolyHomebody You assume ‘head’ means authority or boss, but in Scripture, it often means ‘source.’ Christ is the source of His body’s life. The husband is head of his wife as marriage reflects Adam and Eve in Eden and Adam’s flesh an...

@TheRednartso @HolyHomebody You assume ‘head’ means authority or boss, but in Scripture, it often means ‘source.’ Christ is the source of His body’s life. The husband is head of his wife as marriage

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-18

@TheVaxScene @ManiCompreshun2 @MikeWingerii Wait, the Hebrew scripture on the account about creation and the fall in Eden is a lie created to deceive? Then why does Jesus, Paul and Jude all refer to it? (Mt 19:4-6; Mk 10:6-9; 1Co 15:22,45-49; 2Co 1...

@TheVaxScene @ManiCompreshun2 @MikeWingerii Wait, the Hebrew scripture on the account about creation and the fall in Eden is a lie created to deceive? Then why does Jesus, Paul and Jude all refer to

1Co 15:22 1Ti 2:13-14 2Co 11:3 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-18

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii It's not a pretty plain understanding of the scriptu

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii It's not a pretty plain understanding of the scriptures though. And it all starts in Eden. And in the OP from @MikeWingerii, he infers that based on what Eve said that she

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-18

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii This is not about the fact that both men and women c

@dantheman278 @MikeWingerii This is not about the fact that both men and women can be wrong, but what specifically happened in the garden of Eden so that we can understand the scriptures that referenc

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul sees a situation that is not unlike that of the garden of Eden⎯the wife is deceived and attempting to lead Adam into the same sin; the husband (Adam) is not deceived but silent, not correcting or protecting her give...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul sees a situation that is not unlike that of the garden of Eden⎯the wife is deceived and attempting to lead Adam into the same sin; the husband (Adam) is not deceived

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yeah, I don’t agree with Terran here. I don’t thin

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yeah, I don’t agree with Terran here. I don’t think Paul is drawing on the meaning to dominate. I don’t see how Eve was dominating Adam in Eden.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-11

@The400_ @Eric_Conn Did Jesus follow this precedent? Any of the apostles? Oh, I

@The400_ @Eric_Conn Did Jesus follow this precedent? Any of the apostles? Oh, I recall now… Peter did. "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by t

Mt 26:52 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus and relating what is happening back to the fall in...

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden where Eve was made from and for Adam. Both were com...

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden w

Ge 1:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@Grump_Old_Man @DBryanRhodes @ronhenzel @Gates_of_Derry @CalebDixonSmith Head do

@Grump_Old_Man @DBryanRhodes @ronhenzel @Gates_of_Derry @CalebDixonSmith Head doesn’t mean hierarchical authority over but source or origin of since marriage always refers back to the first marriage i

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@sethhezekiah @Forms_Respecter Long before the church men were dominating women.

@sethhezekiah @Forms_Respecter Long before the church men were dominating women. It goes all the way back to Eden, I'm afraid.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-05

@3GNRTX Rather, it was Paul dealing with a specific wife who was in need of salv

@3GNRTX Rather, it was Paul dealing with a specific wife who was in need of salvation and giving the apple of false doctrine to her husband who was not deceived but silent and doing nothing—just like

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie 1Ti 2:12 is not referring to pastors. It is dealing with a specific wife who is outside of orthodoxy and teaching false doctrine and her husband (likely an elder) who is not deceived is silent and saying nothing. This mimics ...

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie 1Ti 2:12 is not referring to pastors. It is dealing with a specific wife who is outside of orthodoxy and teaching false doctrine and her husband (likely an elder) who is not d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-23

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Ron, take off your patriarchy glasses so you can see the context of each of those passages clearly. At minimum, engaging with those who take scripture seriously but disagree with you based on Biblical precedent should give you...

@ronhenzel @carol66944 Ron, take off your patriarchy glasses so you can see the context of each of those passages clearly. At minimum, engaging with those who take scripture seriously but disagree wi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@ReformedRant @CherylSchatz @AVER735 @MikeWingerii Where does it say the woman's

@ReformedRant @CherylSchatz @AVER735 @MikeWingerii Where does it say the woman's "evil" desire to "rule" her husband? Why are you adding to God's word? She will desire her husband...like when he alon

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Then to help clarify she was deceived, Paul ties this married woman teaching false doctrine in with a similar situation from Eden showing that this problem is due to deception and ignorance like Eve and not out of knowledge lik...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Then to help clarify she was deceived, Paul ties this married woman teaching false doctrine in with a similar situation from Eden showing that this problem is due to deception a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-17

@ronhenzel So the 12 apostles think these two are really great and Paul’s pointing this out to lend credence to them because his opinion is not important? His appeal isn’t to their work or ministry but how well a select 12 think of them? It would b...

@ronhenzel So the 12 apostles think these two are really great and Paul’s pointing this out to lend credence to them because his opinion is not important? His appeal isn’t to their work or ministry bu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-08

@DodgeDeepState @_nomadic_soul Christ is God, the church are humans. When someon

@DodgeDeepState @_nomadic_soul Christ is God, the church are humans. When someone thinks that the husband represents Christ and has sole authority over his wife who represents the church, this is a ve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-10

@MikeWingerii Why should you apologize when someone is offended? People were offended in the Bible—even by things Jesus says. What Biblical precedence do you find for apologizing if you did nothing wrong? Here’s the example from Jesus: "But Jesus...

@MikeWingerii Why should you apologize when someone is offended? People were offended in the Bible—even by things Jesus says. What Biblical precedence do you find for apologizing if you did nothing

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-13

@JeremyMBauman @MarkGrote @kelcy_lowry @hamillaaron @MikeWingerii Unfortunately he didn’t steelman the view that there was a particular deceived woman in Ephesus teaching false doctrine whose husband (likely an elder or respected person) was being si...

@JeremyMBauman @MarkGrote @kelcy_lowry @hamillaaron @MikeWingerii Unfortunately he didn’t steelman the view that there was a particular deceived woman in Ephesus teaching false doctrine whose husband

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-12

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @DeeGoingsGirl Kephale having the possible meaning of source (supported by how the word is being used in its context) is absolutely important to the egalitarian view of these supposed gender hierarchy passages. Everything goes ba...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @DeeGoingsGirl Kephale having the possible meaning of source (supported by how the word is being used in its context) is absolutely important to the egalitarian view of these suppo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel I don't follow your logic here. Why does there need to be two prototypes? There is literally a specific unnamed deceived wife teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus. Eve is being used to show that the situation in ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel I don't follow your logic here. Why does there need to be two prototypes? There is literally a specific unnamed deceived wife teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@Deigratia1985 @ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 The word kephale has a possible meaning of source or origin. As marriage always goes back to its origin in Eden where Adam was the source of Eve (she was made from his bone and flesh and not directly from th...

@Deigratia1985 @ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 The word kephale has a possible meaning of source or origin. As marriage always goes back to its origin in Eden where Adam was the source of Eve (she was mad

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii The reason I don't prefer "domineer" or "master" is because of how Paul uses the example of Adam and Eve and I don't think this was what was going on in the garden of Eden. I think he's tying the f...

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii The reason I don't prefer "domineer" or "master" is because of how Paul uses the example of Adam and Eve and I don't think this was what was going o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-30

RT @ryanschatz: @smashbaals This does not mean the authority over. Since marri

RT @ryanschatz: @smashbaals This does not mean the authority over. Since marriage is defined by going back to the first marriage in Eden…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-30

@smashbaals This does not mean the authority over. Since marriage is defined by going back to the first marriage in Eden where the wife Eve was taken from the flesh and bone of her husband Adam, the husband is said to be the source or origin of the...

@smashbaals This does not mean the authority over. Since marriage is defined by going back to the first marriage in Eden where the wife Eve was taken from the flesh and bone of her husband Adam, the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-30

RT @ryanschatz: @smashbaals While Adam is explicitly tasked with tilling the gro

RT @ryanschatz: @smashbaals While Adam is explicitly tasked with tilling the ground and taking care of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:15,…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-30

@smashbaals While Adam is explicitly tasked with tilling the ground and taking care of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:15, Eve is created as a "helper" for Adam. The term "helper" is often interpreted to mean that Eve shared in Adam's responsibilitie...

@smashbaals While Adam is explicitly tasked with tilling the ground and taking care of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:15, Eve is created as a "helper" for Adam. The term "helper" is often interpreted

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-26

@Exceptional05 That passage has to do with a specific deceived woman at the chur

@Exceptional05 That passage has to do with a specific deceived woman at the church of Ephesus who has left orthodoxy and her husband who was not deceived is silent, just like the prototypical couple i

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-10

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-10

@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

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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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-08

@2Primarch @libertastochter @RedPillTradCon @PhoenixLioness3 @rachallison1 "Be silent and shut up as this is what God wants from you" - No, this is false! You are misreading scripture. 1 Timothy 2:12 - This is about a specific deceived woman in Eph...

@2Primarch @libertastochter @RedPillTradCon @PhoenixLioness3 @rachallison1 "Be silent and shut up as this is what God wants from you" - No, this is false! You are misreading scripture. 1 Timothy 2:1

1 Timothy 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-07

@gary_groyper @moniemon84 @MillerStream @JonnyRoot_ Well, I think you misunderstand this passage. Paul was stopping false teaching, not women. There was a particular deceived woman who was teaching false doctrine and her husband who wasn’t deceived...

@gary_groyper @moniemon84 @MillerStream @JonnyRoot_ Well, I think you misunderstand this passage. Paul was stopping false teaching, not women. There was a particular deceived woman who was teaching

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-01

@Eric_Conn In that passage, Paul is relating something going on in the church at

@Eric_Conn In that passage, Paul is relating something going on in the church at Ephesus with a specific couple to the prototype in Eden. Deception had to do with lack of experience, not some idea th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

Quoting Mark Driscoll: ‘Imagine the pastor today that… slit their throats as a public event. That’s Elijah.’ Such a statement overlooks the unique context and covenant fidelity of Israel. It’s a dangerous precedent to apply ancient events out of cont...

Quoting Mark Driscoll: ‘Imagine the pastor today that… slit their throats as a public event. That’s Elijah.’ Such a statement overlooks the unique context and covenant fidelity of Israel. It’s a dange

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