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Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-15

They Are Sinning Through Questioning

The issue of women in ministry allows us to the opportunity to ask questions about the hard passages of scripture and to work through these passages to discover God’s intended meaning through the inspired context. But in many quarters, questioning is a “sin” that will get a reprimand from a strong a

1 Peter 5:1-3 Jeremiah 23:1 Titus 1:7 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-18

Galatians 328 Is It Only About Salvation

According to complementarians, Galatians 3:28 is not about equality in Christ, but about all of us being in the same “boat” of salvation. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) has made quite an effort to try to demolish Galatians 3:28 as a basis of spiritual equality outside of salvat

1 Corinthians 14:34 Exodus 3:28 Galatians 3:11 1 Corinthians 14 Complementarianism Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2008-11-12

Spiritually Different By Design

CBMW (Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) puts on conferences called “Different by Design” and in these conferences  they teach that God created men and women different for different purposes

Exodus 3:28 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2008-09-28

Semi Egalitarians

USA Today has an editorial written by David P Gushee in which Mr. Gushee challenges complementarians that they are actually semi-egalitarians and they should be willing to openly acknowledge this

Isaiah 5 Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-08-14

Is Complementarianism Merely Personal Conviction

This post is a response to Randy Stinson’s article titled “ Is Complementarianism a Merely Personal Conviction. “

1 Corinthians 11 1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 7:14 Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-07-11

Asking Right Questions

Have you ever found that your discussions with hierarchists goes nowhere fast because they say they have heard the egalitarian arguments before and they are not willing to listen to what you have to say. Perhaps we are missing an opportunity to engage them because we are wanting to teach them first

1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Timothy 2:12 Acts 1 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-06-19

Was The Man Given Authority To Rule The Woman

This is the fifth and final response to Matt Slick’s article called Genesis 2, Adam and Eve, and Authority

1 Timothy 2:11-15 2 Corinthians 11:3 Genesis 2:16 1 Timothy 2 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission
Scripture Commentary article 2008-06-09

Noodling With The Greek Grammar

While I have made a very strong point of the Greek grammar in 1 Timothy 2:15 with the singular “she” and the plural “they” (no specific gender for “they”), some have been trying hard to wiggle out of the implications that Paul is referring to a specific woman because the only living person at that t

1 Peter 4:11 1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 2:15 1 Timothy 2 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-05-11

Only One Verse

In my continuing review of CARM and Matt Slick’s articles on women in ministry, this post is about Matt’s article titled “ Only one verse prohibits women to teach men, so it doesn’t apply to the whole church ”

1 Timothy 2:12 1 Timothy 3:15 Colossians 1 1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2008-02-01

The Bayly Brothers And The Trinity

Awhile back I was asked to consider posting a comment on a very strong complementarian blog that is known to be rather unloving towards egalitarians. This particular blog, I found, was run by two pastors of a Presbyterian church who appear to think that egalitarians do not have the right Jesus or th

2 Timothy 2:24 2 Timothy 2:25 Ecclesiastes 2 Trinity Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-12-05

Women Teaching Mens Prejudice And Gods Glory

Many complementarians have been so used to hearing what women are not allowed to do in the body of Christ rather than what scripture says women should do as followers of Christ, that the focus has become automatically set to see restrictions when the subject of women in ministry is discussed. With t

1 Peter 2:15 1 Peter 3:10 1 Peter 3:10-12 Women in Leadership Complementarianism 1 Peter 3
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 2007-03-24

Should Cbmw Fight Egalitarians

This week CBMW (the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) released two audio tapes from the February 2007 “Different by Design” Conference held in Minneapolis Minnesota. ( ) I was amazed at the way that the gospel was connected to the gender issue in such a way that those who do not hold to pa

Exodus 4 Isaiah 1 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-01-20

Discrimination Of Women In The Sbc Can They Teach Men At All

I have been following a blog documenting the injustice done to Dr. Sheri Klouda a professor of Hebrew who was forced out of her teaching position at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Southwestern Theological Seminary because the new President, Paige Patterson, does not believe that women should be t

Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2006-03-11

Recommendations For Wim

> Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free. ” as a whole is a very well produced and presented multi-media teaching series on the legitimacy and freedom of women to be in any ministry that God should call them to

1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-18

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @dalepartridge @ostrachan The only sort of direct connection between egalitarian teaching and gender confusion is if you reject scripture to get an egalitarian reading. I believe scripture is clear that God made people male ...

@JoeAdrian256 @iheartJ37 @dalepartridge @ostrachan The only sort of direct connection between egalitarian teaching and gender confusion is if you reject scripture to get an egalitarian reading. I bel

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-16

@grok @CDDTReborn @autocorrect2_0 @alcadizzar19 1Co 11:3 is probably the strongest evidence for head meaning source especially in the context of 11:1-16. Paul is talking about source relationships and interdependence not gender hierarchy. Further, he...

@grok @CDDTReborn @autocorrect2_0 @alcadizzar19 1Co 11:3 is probably the strongest evidence for head meaning source especially in the context of 11:1-16. Paul is talking about source relationships and

of 11:1-16 1Co 11:3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA The biggest challenge is that people are creatures of habit and change feels like heresy, particularly in hotly debated issues such as leadership roles, gender and authority. Many feel like hiera...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA The biggest challenge is that people are creatures of habit and change feels like heresy, particularly in hotly debated issues such as leadership

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-23

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You mean stop teaching gen

@BenColavita @onus2579 @tonyrigatonee @punishedmother You mean stop teaching gender confusion? Sure. Regardless of who is teaching it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-22

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Like I said earlier, I don’t agree with everything Andy says and does. His views on parents obeying children changing gender or affirming gays do not follow from what I’m sharing from scripture. You are conflating these...

@wilson_mar11767 @AndyStanley Like I said earlier, I don’t agree with everything Andy says and does. His views on parents obeying children changing gender or affirming gays do not follow from what I’m

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which

You’re right that the word ‘submit’ (ὑποτάσσεσθε) is omitted in Eph 5:22, which is normal in Koine Greek, and that it is stated explicitly elsewhere (Col 3:18, Tit 2:4-5 and also 1Pe 3:5-6). However,

Eph 5:22 1Pe 3:5-6 Col 3:18 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

🧵Mark, unlike Mike Winger (@MikeWingerii), you’re actually engaging with the text.👏 Mike calls mutual submission a “trick,” but Peter warns us not to twist Paul’s words to mean what he never meant (2Pe 3:15–16). Paul taught mutual submission not ge...

🧵Mark, unlike Mike Winger (@MikeWingerii), you’re actually engaging with the text.👏 Mike calls mutual submission a “trick,” but Peter warns us not to twist Paul’s words to mean what he never meant (2

2Pe 3:15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Paula, you’ve said yourself that women are more easily

@Paula_333 @BronWen727104 Paula, you’ve said yourself that women are more easily deceived. Given that belief, how can you be sure you aren’t deceived on this subject—and that I, a man, whom you believ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@5pur5y FYI: The teaching that both genders were in Adam and God separated out t

@5pur5y FYI: The teaching that both genders were in Adam and God separated out the female gender is nowhere found in scripture. And that Jesus wasn't a male is also not anywhere inferred or stated in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to work together and they don’t justify having gender ro...

@BiblicalBeauty @DwightsWordOTD This is a good question. Egalitarians don’t maintain that there are no distinctions between male and female. It is just that those distinctions are why they need to wor

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@NateSchlomann Please tell me: what is the measuring standard? Is it sola script

@NateSchlomann Please tell me: what is the measuring standard? Is it sola scriptura or the Bible plus history? Is history infallible? I think you are confused. Egal and gender confusion are two compl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-13

@thebereanmillen I think you are confusing egalitarian with gender confusion. Th

@thebereanmillen I think you are confusing egalitarian with gender confusion. These two things are completely unrelated.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony Actually, I think you are reading you

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony Actually, I think you are reading your own bias into scripture. But being male is not required for leadership. Maybe if we didn’t mess that up people wouldn

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Agreed that there are certainly no ge

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Agreed that there are certainly no gender-based roles. But there is the office of elder/overseer and deacon for which gifting alone is not sufficient. The in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua The reason Paul uses this language is as an idiom

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua The reason Paul uses this language is as an idiom for both faithful if married and someone who advocates for monogamy. The male form of a phrase or terms is used as the d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua The only explicit pronoun in that passage is in v1 and is ‘tis’ which is generic. Why wouldn’t Paul be more explicit and state ‘must not be a female’? Rather, he uses character which any can attain to and not requirement...

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua The only explicit pronoun in that passage is in v1 and is ‘tis’ which is generic. Why wouldn’t Paul be more explicit and state ‘must not be a female’? Rather, he uses cha

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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 2025-04-30

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be married and have 2 or more children and Paul was neith...

@Dankrightanon @LordFerguson09 No, a woman cannot be a husband. The idiom is in the male form as a generic characteristic that can apply to anyone regardless of gender. Else it requires one to be marr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to re

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Paul is using “one woman man” idiomatically to refer to marital faithfulness (character) and not being married or one’s gender. See below for some scholars who support a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If anyone aspires to oversight” - τις = “someone / a...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The Greek does not use the explicit masculine personal pronouns αὐτός (he) or αὐτοῦ (his). In fact, a generic pronoun is used in 1Ti 3:1—Εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, “If

1Ti 3:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@covapologetics @MissionaryJC3 I have an agenda? And you are just neutral? lol.

@covapologetics @MissionaryJC3 I have an agenda? And you are just neutral? lol. The only place Paul says for a woman to marry is if she is a widow and young or in the case of either gender can’t cont

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-13

@Vibeauxs @Eric_Conn As for 1Pe 3:1, submission and service is not specific to o

@Vibeauxs @Eric_Conn As for 1Pe 3:1, submission and service is not specific to one gender but to all. Peter says to the husbands “in the same way” (1Pe 3:7) showing the instruction is the same for the

1Pe 3:1 1Pe 3:7 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-11

@Eric_Conn Women can be courageous risk-takers too. Churches should not be unde

@Eric_Conn Women can be courageous risk-takers too. Churches should not be under the control of a specific gender, male or female.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-06

@scottspeig @MikeWingerii No. He made the spreading of the teaching a primary matter. To him it is the teaching itself that leads to harm against his view of church leadership and gender hierarchy in marriage. I’m not calling Mike to repent of sprea...

@scottspeig @MikeWingerii No. He made the spreading of the teaching a primary matter. To him it is the teaching itself that leads to harm against his view of church leadership and gender hierarchy in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-05

@Keith83361 @Tazorius @smashbaals No, I'm egalitarian (perhaps mutualist is a better term as it emphasizes mutual subjection from Eph 5:21)⎯because I read my Bible. I don't embrace worldly culture. The Bible is not 'affirming' and there are only two...

@Keith83361 @Tazorius @smashbaals No, I'm egalitarian (perhaps mutualist is a better term as it emphasizes mutual subjection from Eph 5:21)⎯because I read my Bible. I don't embrace worldly culture. T

Eph 5:21 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Never mind the modern titles—they are made up.

@Tazorius @Keith83361 @smashbaals Never mind the modern titles—they are made up. The question is what does scripture teach related to pastors and whether there are gender-based restrictions.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-03

@CaptainDavidA @rigginout @smashbaals I agree that God doesn't change. However, there is no such God appointed gender-roles in creation. Gen 1:28 says that both are to rule and contains imperatives (commands) to both of them. There is no command in ...

@CaptainDavidA @rigginout @smashbaals I agree that God doesn't change. However, there is no such God appointed gender-roles in creation. Gen 1:28 says that both are to rule and contains imperatives (c

Ge 3:16 Gen 1:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-02

@ElonFan_1 @smashbaals Probably she started at verse 21 showing that verses 22ff

@ElonFan_1 @smashbaals Probably she started at verse 21 showing that verses 22ff cannot be advocating for some sort of gender-hierarchy of authority.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-29

@etrade601 @KaeleyT I agree with you. Bad leaders come in al flavours, male and

@etrade601 @KaeleyT I agree with you. Bad leaders come in al flavours, male and female. I’m an egalitarian and think that women and men working together without some gender-hierarchy constraint in le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in

@TheIllegit Correct—simply claiming something doesn't make it true. However, in the NT, 'man' can mean anyone, male or female, based on context. So, if Paul meant both genders, why sometimes use the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@KayKasper263927 @dalepartridge Was Jacob’s wife Rachel (Ge 29:9) who was a shep

@KayKasper263927 @dalepartridge Was Jacob’s wife Rachel (Ge 29:9) who was a shepherd a transgender? 🤔

Ge 29:9 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@dalepartridge Your wording is needlessly divisive. Where does the Bible qualify pastors with “male”? No one is even explicitly called “pastor” in the NT. And we actually have at least one example of a female shepherd—Rachael in Ge 29:9 is explicitl...

@dalepartridge Your wording is needlessly divisive. Where does the Bible qualify pastors with “male”? No one is even explicitly called “pastor” in the NT. And we actually have at least one example of

Ge 29:9 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The focus on gender roles may be part of the problem. When you tell women that their role is to be in the kitchen, you give no valid option for those who like things that boys like and everyone is unique. Clearly there are differe...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT The focus on gender roles may be part of the problem. When you tell women that their role is to be in the kitchen, you give no valid option for those who like things that boys like

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

Your view assumes gender is the key difference, but Paul’s focus is on character

Your view assumes gender is the key difference, but Paul’s focus is on character qualifications, not a categorical distinction. ‘Likewise’ strengthens inclusion, connecting women to deacons and mainta

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