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Scripture Commentary article 2007-11-03

Does Head Mean Boss When It Is Connected To The Body

This is the first in a series about marriage and the connection between marriage to women’s gifts in the church

Colossians 2:19 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Genesis & Creation Headship & Kephale Spiritual Gifts

Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-28

Interdependence In The Lord

In our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, we now come to verse 11:

1 Corinthians 11:10 1 Corinthians 11:11 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale

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 2007-03-08

Is Adam The Representative Head Of The Human Race

Those who believe that God created a hierarchical relationship between men and women will usually state that God created Adam as the “federal head” of the human race. This “federal headship” is said to be not only physical in that all of humanity has its origin in Adam, but spiritual because of a di

1 Timothy 2:14 Colossians 2:11 Colossians 2:13 Genesis & Creation Headship & Kephale Adam & Eve

Scripture Commentary article 2007-02-27

Catching Up

Well part one of the relocation of our ministry and the move of our household has occurred and we have a two week break before we go into phase two of the move

Headship & Kephale Women in Leadership

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 2006-11-20

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 tweet 2026-01-04

@ronhenzel The church is the people of God consisting of Israel and the Gentile

@ronhenzel The church is the people of God consisting of Israel and the Gentile nations. But the church doesn’t replace Israel. Paul is always clear: first to the Jew then the Gentile. He doesn’t eras

Does Head Mean Boss When It Is Connected To The Body

Interdependence In The Lord

Are Females Saved Just Like Males

Is Adam The Representative Head Of The Human Race

Catching Up

Does Husband Of One Wife Disqualify Women From Being A Pastor

Adam As Head Of The Family

@ronhenzel The church is the people of God consisting of Israel and the Gentile

@grok @WalterKissus @dalepartridge Head means source as Adam’s flesh and bone is the source material for Eve’s creation. Notice how in the NT no one is the head of anyone except the husband of the wife, so if head means the boss or authority over, th...

@prayandfast2 My ancestors are Jesus and the apostles. Jesus is clearly not saying they were to eat His literal flesh and drink His literal blood. Not one person began chomping on his thighs… “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh provides no ...

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee Yes, the husband is the head of his wife just as Christ is the head of His church. My argument is not that this isn’t the case but that it doesn’t mean authority over—it means source. Adam flesh and bone what Eve was created f...

@jrdickens90 @Toneskeee Scripture says Adam wasn’t deceived. That’s why he is he

@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...

@SayvilleDavid @_Nosoup4you__ @annelikok @smashbaals The relationship between a husband and a wife and the use of head reflects how they are connected. Marriage is defined by the first marriage where Eve literally came from the flesh and bone of Adam...

@LostMyHats God has favoured Israel in the flesh. It’s clearly in scripture. htt

@LizzieMarbach Husbands are the head of their wife. Where does scripture say "...of the household"? Being head of his wife symbolically maps back to the first marriage where Eve came from the flesh and bone of Adam making Adam her 'source.' This defi...

@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...

@HvacRoar24011 John is warning about teachers who denied that Jesus truly came i

@HvacRoar24011 Who is Paul referring to here that he wishes he could be cut off for? Was it for the believing Jews? "For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my countrymen, my kinsmen according to the flesh...

@HvacRoar24011 Did Paul worship the flesh? Why did he go to the Jew first when h

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

@HvacRoar24011 Paul calls the Israelites his "kinsmen ACCORDING TO THE FLESH" “I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I coul...

@HvacRoar24011 That there was no promise made to a people according to the flesh is provably false. You are ignoring many scriptures. “The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us who are alive here today.” (Dt 5:3) ...

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

@HvacRoar24011 @mennodarren @smashbaals Flesh and spirit represent walking accor

@slyoung687 @PastorPompu Since Adam was created in God’s image by God from the d

@sl4Yahweh Except you are describing a military and not a church. And “head” lan

@DanielT46640724 @BishopJaxi He didn’t say “my flesh body provides no benefit but my spirit body is life.” He is speaking metaphorically and Roman Catholics convinced themselves that unless they eat Jesus’ actual flesh through a magical process that ...

@BishopJaxi Keep reading… “The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh provi

The husband as kephale (head) of the wife symbolically links to the foundation o

Some claim regeneration didn’t exist—or wasn’t permanent—before the church. Yet

@Paula_333 @Saved5872 @MikeWingerii Yes, and that meaning is discovered by the context! These are not merely idioms, but sometimes Jesus says things like “you must eat my flesh and drink my blood” which isn’t an idiom but you can’t take the “plain me...

@carol66944 @5pur5y I don’t understand how you connect scripture like that. That Adam would rule was spoken to Eve and wasn’t an imperative and was a consequence of the fall. That God rules is a given. His humbling Himself to take on flesh and subje...

Complementarians say God gave Adam authority over Eve—and by extension, husbands over wives. But Adam was the one who failed (Ro 5:12). He wasn’t deceived, yet didn’t guard the garden or his own flesh, Eve. If failed shepherds are removed, why woul...

@JonByers186054 @ssiena017 @dalepartridge @GracefilledWomb I never said I reject all authority, just that God never intended that a husband be in authority over his wife. And yes, Jesus⎯though also the God of the universe⎯as the man treats the churc...

@Prov_Standards Adam wasn’t created as the only one with a brain, or the only one who could work or teach or protect. That is a complete misunderstanding of God’s intent. The idea of Adam as head is of being the one who in creation was more prominen...

@ncksmith Yes, but it’s not because of the system. God defined the marriage and the church as a one flesh source relationship so we would see and treat one another rightly. That’s the ‘why’ that’s often missing here. When a leader sees himself as the...

@ncksmith The problem in Genesis is that Adam didn’t treat Eve as his own flesh.

@ncksmith It means that you are to remember that your wife, while she is from another family, is one flesh with you in marriage. Just as Eve wasn’t created separately from the dust but from Adam’s flesh and bone, so you should see her and treat her a...

@ncksmith The husband as kephalē of the wife symbolically links to the foundatio

@SonOfManXY @smashbaals In a marriage, man is the head of his wife and Christ is the head of His church, both are one flesh relationships and the basis for marriage had Eve made from Adam’s flesh and bone and Jesus provide life to His church. But he...

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii The law didn’t explicitly specify or regulate a woman divorcing her husband nor did it forbid her. Silence doesn’t mean that she doesn’t also have the right to divorce an unfaithful husband. Do you belie...

@JonByers186054 @dalepartridge There you go again—reinterpreting what I’m saying to try to have me claim that I think I become God in heaven. Being equal doesn’t mean equal in all ways, but it means that Jesus doesn’t put His church under His feet ...

@carol66944 @MikeWingerii That the husband is the kephale of the wife is the ver

@TrueChristian00 @DrFrankTurek Your quoted 1 Pe 3:18 “He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.” You said “He wasn’t simply resuscitated in the same fleshly body.” However, the Greek construction supports reading ‘made alive by ...

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Head or kephale in Greek, an anatomical term, is used instead of authority or boss or decision maker because the word refers to the one who both came first and was the source (flesh and bone) from which E...

@ArthurMooreIV @ronhenzel No, that’s not what I’m saying whatsoever. Ron is importing ideas into the text which are foreign to the text. The text explains itself. That doesn’t mean that the Bible doesn’t teach that God is one being and three persons...

@JonByers186054 Jesus isn’t siding with Shammai. He’s not tightening up Dt 24.

@JonByers186054 What? Jesus affirmed the Genesis model of mutual unity in marriage. He taught that Moses’ regulations were concessions, but God’s intent from creation was always lifelong, one-flesh union, not domination or dismissal. I won't repent ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Thanks for being honest. I agree that the husband is head *of* his wife. Your use of over presumes it means boss or authority. Eve was made from Adam's flesh and bone⎯thus he is the source of his wife. And marriage sy...

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@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Thanks for being honest. I agree that the husband is head of his wife. Your use of over presumes it means boss or authority. Eve was made from Adam's flesh and bone⎯thus he is the source of his wife. And marriage sy...