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Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-17

Woman Representative

This post is an answer to Matt Slicks article called “1 Timothy 2:9-15 “a woman” is representative of all women as “a man”represents all men”

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Timothy 2
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-09

Matt Slick She They

This is a continuation of my evaluation of Matt Slick’s articles on women in ministry. Matt has been working for weeks to try to refute my interpretations

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:15 Amos 15 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2008-03-27

To Diane Sellner Of Carm

**October 2008 addition Note: A public statement regarding Diane Sellner’s role in the public attacks against me is at

Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-30

The Rest Of The Story 1 Timothy 211 15 And Matt Slick

> Proverbs 18:17 (ESV) The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him

1 Peter 4:10 1 Peter 4:11 1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 2 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-08

Debating On Women Pastors

Did you ever feel pulled in a direction you really didn’t want to go in. Well, this has been my life for the last 3 1/2 years

Colossians 6 Isaiah 4 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-29

Are Gods Gifts Segregated

Segregation is the policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups. The question for this post – are God’s gifts meant to be segregated into races, classes or ethnic groups

1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Corinthians 12:25 1 Corinthians 12:7 Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-09

Are Females Saved Just Like Males

Before we continue with our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, I wanted to share a question that Jen had who watched my clip of “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free” DVD on YouTube. She said:

1 Peter 3:7 Ephesians 2:14-19 Ephesians 2:19 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-28

Does Husband Of One Wife Disqualify Women From Being A Pastor

I was listening to the January 26, 2007 radio program online by Matt Slick of carm. org

1 Corinthians 7:24 1 Timothy 3:1 1 Timothy 3:12 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2006-12-02

What Does 1 Timothy 211 15 Mean

I was challenged to present my view of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 on another blog and I thought it would be good to summarize my view on my own blog. Here is the teaching from “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free

1 Timothy 1:11-15 1 Timothy 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2 Adam & Eve Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-20

Adam As Head Of The Family

It is common for hierarchists to say that Adam was Eve’s head not because he was her source, but because he had authority over her. While the teaching that Adam was Eve’s ruler before the fall of man is unsubstantiated, the fact that Adam was the source of Eve is foundational to the doctrine of the

Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2006-04-06

Doesnt 1 Timothy 13 List Only Males As False Teachers

> Q: In WIM you say that 1 Timothy 1:3 “charge some that they teach no other doctrine” means people male or female. However isn’t the technical grammar of “some” as singular masculine

1 Timothy 1:3 2 Timothy 3:17 Acts 1 1 Timothy 2
Scripture Commentary article 2006-03-13

Would Your Arguments Have Strength Without 1 Timothy 215

> Q: It also seems that 1 Timothy 2:15 is crucial for your interpretation. The word ‘she’ is a definite point in your favor

1 Timothy 2:15 Exodus 1 Hebrews 15 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-02-23

@ronhenzel Hodge equates “made alive” with “justified unto eternal life” Hodge collapses resurrection into salvation Hodge treats “in Christ” as a technical soteriological union rather than a representative, mediatorial one But Paul explicitly disti...

@ronhenzel Hodge equates “made alive” with “justified unto eternal life” Hodge collapses resurrection into salvation Hodge treats “in Christ” as a technical soteriological union rather than a represen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-02-22

@ronhenzel @GloryIsGods777 @GatorRob777 Faith is only one item in a list of things ‘necessary for salvation’? Ron, is a person saved when they believe—or only after they have been sanctified and glorified? You’re conflating what God does for those w...

@ronhenzel @GloryIsGods777 @GatorRob777 Faith is only one item in a list of things ‘necessary for salvation’? Ron, is a person saved when they believe—or only after they have been sanctified and glori

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-02-22

@GloryIsGods777 @ronhenzel @GatorRob777 Faith is not a work or a payment: it is

@GloryIsGods777 @ronhenzel @GatorRob777 Faith is not a work or a payment: it is God’s prescribed way that His salvation is credited. “For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it wa

Ro 4:3 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-01-04

@ronhenzel The Israel of the Old Testament in part was the very beginning and origin of the New Testament church. All the apostles are of Israel and at Pentecost many Jews joined the church. In order for salvation to come to the Gentiles there was a ...

@ronhenzel The Israel of the Old Testament in part was the very beginning and origin of the New Testament church. All the apostles are of Israel and at Pentecost many Jews joined the church. In order

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-30

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Not so. The Adam and Eve reference is using them as prototypes of this couple in Ephesus. Why else would Paul use “the woman” if he meant Eve, but like Eve the woman from 2:11-12 is also deceived and in need of salvati...

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Not so. The Adam and Eve reference is using them as prototypes of this couple in Ephesus. Why else would Paul use “the woman” if he meant Eve, but like Eve the woman fr

from 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-30

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, but it’s not speaking about the salvation of

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Ok, but it’s not speaking about the salvation of the they. So your answer is: Women will be saved if women do something? So Paul uses the singular in error? He should

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-29

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge Peter admits some things Paul writes are hard to understand: “And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as a...

@DanielleMc24097 @ThokGrararah @dalepartridge Peter admits some things Paul writes are hard to understand: “And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, acc

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-27

@LDSMormon A Christian cult is not based on whether the leaders pay themselves o

@LDSMormon A Christian cult is not based on whether the leaders pay themselves or not or whether they are growing or not or how long they’ve lasted. It is defined by their teaching about the nature of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-21

@ElifNull @Vizini7 @smashbaals Yes, a Jew must be one “inwardly”. But Paul is speaking about individual salvation, not the abolition of Israel’s ethnic distinction. If “Israel” no longer meant ethnic Jews according to the flesh, then Ro 9:3-4 (“my k...

@ElifNull @Vizini7 @smashbaals Yes, a Jew must be one “inwardly”. But Paul is speaking about individual salvation, not the abolition of Israel’s ethnic distinction. If “Israel” no longer meant ethnic

Ro 9:3-4 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-13

In 1 Co 9:23 Paul says he disciplines himself “so that I may be a partaker of th

In 1 Co 9:23 Paul says he disciplines himself “so that I may be a partaker of the gospel.” The “prize” and “imperishable crown” aren’t extra rewards but a sharing in salvation itself. Paul knew prea

1 Co 9:23 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-11

This would mean you are saved by predestined regeneration and not faith. Faith t

This would mean you are saved by predestined regeneration and not faith. Faith then being just one of the fruits of salvation. This is not what scripture teaches. https://t.co/hwieBUhYmJ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@stablecross @ronhenzel Thanks for your interaction. wrf3: The covenant children inherit the land = kingdom of heaven on earth = the saved. Paul never says “children of the promise = guaranteed salvation.” He says “the children of the promise are c...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Thanks for your interaction. wrf3: The covenant children inherit the land = kingdom of heaven on earth = the saved. Paul never says “children of the promise = guaranteed salv

Ro 9:8 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@GregoryAShirk @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 What specifically were you convinced by? Did you revisit the passages in question and test Ron's answer against scripture? While God chose an individual over another not based on works, what makes you think it...

@GregoryAShirk @ronhenzel @ManofGod20253 What specifically were you convinced by? Did you revisit the passages in question and test Ron's answer against scripture? While God chose an individual over a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-04

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes through promise, not flesh. Ishmael was Abraham’s son, y...

@stablecross @ronhenzel Nothing faltering in my argument. But to respond to your 3 points, see below. 1. Paul’s point with Isaac wasn’t “individual salvation,” but that the covenant line comes throug

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.” ...

@HvacRoar24011 Except Paul went to the Jew 1st after the resurrection every time he went to a new town. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who b

Ro 1:16 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor wil

@HvacRoar24011 He doesn't consider his flesh as accounting for anything, nor will it save him. Again, you keep conflating salvation with God's purposes for Israel in the flesh which Paul clearly state

Ro 9:3-4 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals That's right, salvation is not based on your ethnic origin, not based on being a physical descendent of Abraham, but based on belief in Christ. You keep repeating the things we agree on and ignoring the script...

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals That's right, salvation is not based on your ethnic origin, not based on being a physical descendent of Abraham, but based on belief in Christ. You keep repeat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Right. And how did the Jewish leadership see Jesus? Who kept trying to put Paul to death? Yet Paul still continued to pray for their salvation and to preach the gospel to them first. Stop focusing on being persecuted. Jesus said that ...

@HvacRoar24011 Right. And how did the Jewish leadership see Jesus? Who kept trying to put Paul to death? Yet Paul still continued to pray for their salvation and to preach the gospel to them first. S

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Why does Paul then after the cross consistently preach to the Jews first and then the Gentiles? Do you share the gospel with the Jew first? “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for s...

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Why does Paul then after the cross consistently preach to the Jews first and then the Gentiles? Do you share the gospel with the Jew first? “For I am not asham

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Yes, salvation is by faith and that has

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Yes, salvation is by faith and that has nothing to do with your ethnicity. Yet, God obviously and clearly chose a people group according to the flesh for His o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-28

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast So again, believers in Christ are one body, Jew and Gentile alike (Eph 2:14–16; Gal 3:28). There is no second way of salvation—only through Christ. The church is not outside God’s promises but grafted into the...

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast So again, believers in Christ are one body, Jew and Gentile alike (Eph 2:14–16; Gal 3:28). There is no second way of salvation—only through Christ. The church

Eph 2:14 Gal 3:28 Ro 11:17 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-28

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast Paul keeps both truths: the church = one body of Jew & Gentile in Christ (Eph 2:14–16), yet Israel remains distinct in God’s plan (Ro 11:25–29). That’s not ‘another gospel’. The gospel is Christ crucified &a...

@hyde62056 @FDellarosanera @ethercoast Paul keeps both truths: the church = one body of Jew & Gentile in Christ (Eph 2:14–16), yet Israel remains distinct in God’s plan (Ro 11:25–29). That’s not ‘

Eph 2:14 Ro 11:25 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-09

@pauldirks However... - Bonaventure taught that salvation is a cooperative process between divine grace and human free will. - Bonaventure seems to also affirm that good works, enabled by grace, contribute to salvation (aligned with RC theology). - A...

@pauldirks However... - Bonaventure taught that salvation is a cooperative process between divine grace and human free will. - Bonaventure seems to also affirm that good works, enabled by grace, contr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definit

@ErasmusIchthys @Sweetcinnaclr The Greek says "the childbearing"⎯it is a definite noun, not a verb. Plus it's referring to salvation, and no woman is saved by bearing children as some cannot bear chil

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@VirgilWalkerOMA ...deceived, yet he needs to be part of her being brought to sa

@VirgilWalkerOMA ...deceived, yet he needs to be part of her being brought to salvation and staying in the true faith. Paul says the goal of this instruction is 'love from a pure heart...and a sincere

1Ti 1:5 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@VirgilWalkerOMA If she is Eve, there is no sense in which Eve will be saved by the actions of those in the present. But we have a husband and wife in this passage. If she is the deceived wife and the they is her and her husband, then this makes sens...

@VirgilWalkerOMA If she is Eve, there is no sense in which Eve will be saved by the actions of those in the present. But we have a husband and wife in this passage. If she is the deceived wife and the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-08

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Paul says the woman was deceived, not the man (1Ti 2:14). She believed false teaching and needed correction and salvation (v15). He was not deceived. So Paul doesn’t say they are both in need of salvation, but that her salvat...

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Paul says the woman was deceived, not the man (1Ti 2:14). She believed false teaching and needed correction and salvation (v15). He was not deceived. So Paul doesn’t say they

1Ti 2:14 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-07

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Trying to make 1Ti 2:15 into typology of Christ overrides Paul’s grammar and context. The verse speaks of a specific woman’s salvation contingent on “they” (she and her husband?) continuing in faith. It’s practical hope, not h...

@carol66944 @OrinRomine Trying to make 1Ti 2:15 into typology of Christ overrides Paul’s grammar and context. The verse speaks of a specific woman’s salvation contingent on “they” (she and her husband

1Ti 2:15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-07

@carol66944 @OrinRomine I believe that in the context Paul was reaching for an o

@carol66944 @OrinRomine I believe that in the context Paul was reaching for an older Attic meaning to connect the fall in Eden with this deceived wife who is teaching heresy and needs salvation (ie “s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@darylsterk I’ve heard this one being proposed many times. Yet Paul is actually using this wording to explain how ‘she’ (ie. ‘the woman’ of v14 who cannot be Eve as Eve is dead and nothing can be done in the present to affect her salvation) will be s...

@darylsterk I’ve heard this one being proposed many times. Yet Paul is actually using this wording to explain how ‘she’ (ie. ‘the woman’ of v14 who cannot be Eve as Eve is dead and nothing can be done

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@darylsterk Paul’s letter to Timothy is explicitly to stop strange doctrines clouding the gospel of salvation which is by faith from spreading at the church in Ephesus. While it is certainly possible that more is going on here as you describe, I am n...

@darylsterk Paul’s letter to Timothy is explicitly to stop strange doctrines clouding the gospel of salvation which is by faith from spreading at the church in Ephesus. While it is certainly possible

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Ok, back to question 1. If women were saved before the church a

@JonByers186054 Ok, back to question 1. If women were saved before the church age, then what does Gal 3:28 mean if it is referring only to salvation? Can you explain this please?

Gal 3:28 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua I’m still confused… where is pastor (poimen) defined as male only such that any female serving as a shepherd is in unrepentant sin? Imagine, a female following Mt 28:16-20, teaching others to obey all that Jesus commande...

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua I’m still confused… where is pastor (poimen) defined as male only such that any female serving as a shepherd is in unrepentant sin? Imagine, a female following Mt 28:16-2

Mt 28:16-20 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-17

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals If this passage only referred to nations,

@RobChristisKing @thatdna @smashbaals If this passage only referred to nations, it would imply nations are saved or lost collectively. But salvation is *always* individual in Paul’s theology: “If you

Ro 10:9 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-15

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist Martin Luther was so focused on salvation being by faith that he overreacted to James calling it “an epistle of straw” yet he never removed it completely. Similarly with Hebrews, Jude and Revelation—he never removed the...

@elondeporter @CapturingChrist Martin Luther was so focused on salvation being by faith that he overreacted to James calling it “an epistle of straw” yet he never removed it completely. Similarly with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-14

@rightresponsem @TinaFoughty What? The evidence of salvation is having children

@rightresponsem @TinaFoughty What? The evidence of salvation is having children and being a mother? Paul advocates for singleness in 1Co 7. And you make this a matter of salvation? Yikes. 😬

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Faith is not wh

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Faith is not what Paul is referring to in Eph 2:8 but salvation. We access salvation through our faith which is an admission of our wea

Eph 2:8 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning I am not a fals

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning I am not a false teacher because I disagree with you on something non essential to the faith. And I do not believe that faith is a work

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