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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-11

@oliviakrolczyk_ Paul was not writing a personal letter to Timothy to stop half

@oliviakrolczyk_ Paul was not writing a personal letter to Timothy to stop half of the church or anyone from teaching truth. He was writing to stop the teaching of heresy. You are properly reacting ag

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii The restrictions are related to character and ability (and teaching truth rather than heresy). The qualifications are not based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, male or female, age, size, whether or not o...

@JamesGi27467089 @carol66944 @MikeWingerii The restrictions are related to character and ability (and teaching truth rather than heresy). The qualifications are not based on ethnicity, socioeconomic s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@janine_ped86302 @haymes_joshua I see. So are you ignoring what I presented and just moving on to the next point? In Paul’s personal letter to Timothy regarding his appeal to him to remain in Ephesus to stop the spread of strange teachings (1Ti 1:3)...

@janine_ped86302 @haymes_joshua I see. So are you ignoring what I presented and just moving on to the next point? In Paul’s personal letter to Timothy regarding his appeal to him to remain in Ephesus

1Ti 1:3 question
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

In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in betwe

In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Timothy, he

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@path1_one @rightresponsem Christ is the source or origin of the life of the chu

@path1_one @rightresponsem Christ is the source or origin of the life of the church. This isn’t a statement about Him being the boss of the church. This is not heresy nor is it anarchy. You are mista

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem In this case, yes…an

@Nixon72Reagan80 @iheartJ37 @TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem In this case, yes…and the wife was teaching. Which, if it wasn’t heresy, is obviously not a problem in itself.

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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 2025-02-23

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi I agree with your comment that the anaphoric reference is semantic and in this case could refer to either Eve in v13 or ‘a woman’ in v11-12 depending on the context. In this case, Paul is tying the specific...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi I agree with your comment that the anaphoric reference is semantic and in this case could refer to either Eve in v13 or ‘a woman’ in v11-12 depending on the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-23

@cjhormes @rightresponsem Doesn’t Trump support female pastors? Also, heresy isn’t just disagreeing on debatable matters but on the primary things that unify all Christians like the nature of God, the gospel, the physical resurrection, the deity of ...

@cjhormes @rightresponsem Doesn’t Trump support female pastors? Also, heresy isn’t just disagreeing on debatable matters but on the primary things that unify all Christians like the nature of God, th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@covapologetics @MissionaryJC3 Because you missed Paul’s purpose Im the letter which was for Timothy to “instruct *certain people* not to teach strange doctrines” (1Ti 1:3). Here you have a certain person, ‘the woman’ (1Ti 2:14), whom Paul wants to s...

@covapologetics @MissionaryJC3 Because you missed Paul’s purpose Im the letter which was for Timothy to “instruct *certain people* not to teach strange doctrines” (1Ti 1:3). Here you have a certain pe

1Ti 1:3 1Ti 2:14 general
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 2025-02-18

@BronWen727104 I actually don’t think a reference to Artemis is needed as Paul didn’t make an explicit connection. The childbearing is a definite noun and refers to the messiah. She will be saved if they <do things> refers to the deceived wife ...

@BronWen727104 I actually don’t think a reference to Artemis is needed as Paul didn’t make an explicit connection. The childbearing is a definite noun and refers to the messiah. She will be saved if t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-13

@Vibeauxs @The_Sig_ Strange. Because Jesus Himself said that the Father would su

@Vibeauxs @The_Sig_ Strange. Because Jesus Himself said that the Father would submit to the Son’s request showing that whatever the Son asked the Father would do. No damnable heresy here. Sorry to di

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@I_Been_Raptured @MikeWingerii Heresy? Heresy is related to the person and work of Jesus, the nature of God, the gospel—basically the fundamentals of the faith. Whether women can teach truth or serve as elders is not a fundamental and shouldn’t be re...

@I_Been_Raptured @MikeWingerii Heresy? Heresy is related to the person and work of Jesus, the nature of God, the gospel—basically the fundamentals of the faith. Whether women can teach truth or serve

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Keith83361 Sorry, are you saying that asking why Paul gives general instruction

@Keith83361 Sorry, are you saying that asking why Paul gives general instructions for the church in a personal letter to Timothy rather than in a letter to the church—that the question itself is HERES

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-03

@blazefranco_ @smashbaals No, that's not what 1Ti 2:11-12 says. "A" woman is not all women, and Paul's clear and stated purpose is to stop false teaching not true teaching from anyone. There's a specific couple⎯a wife teaching heresy and her husband ...

@blazefranco_ @smashbaals No, that's not what 1Ti 2:11-12 says. "A" woman is not all women, and Paul's clear and stated purpose is to stop false teaching not true teaching from anyone. There's a speci

1Ti 2:11-12 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-02

@voyavolver1 @MikeWingerii Heresy has to do with serious deviation from foundati

@voyavolver1 @MikeWingerii Heresy has to do with serious deviation from foundational teachings of the faith, not just differences on non-essentials like the method of baptism, end times doctrines, whe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-21

@Crystalisives Yes, Paul was giving Timothy his apostolic authority in assistanc

@Crystalisives Yes, Paul was giving Timothy his apostolic authority in assistance for this task as it involved him ‘interfering’ between the silent husband and his wife who was teaching heresy.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@immrbloo @BeardedPresby Can Mormons be saved because they have a sincere heart?

@immrbloo @BeardedPresby Can Mormons be saved because they have a sincere heart? You said I’m believing and teaching heresy or serious error. Given what you do know and not my heart which no one has

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@immrbloo Ok, how about I teach everyone that they are saved by their faith and

@immrbloo Ok, how about I teach everyone that they are saved by their faith and not by predestination. I tell them that Jesus died for them (and I mean it). If it’s heresy, at what point am I not to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-09

@shr_eax @KiflaKajmak @OldPhilos @smashbaals Paul’s purpose in writing Timothy was to stop the spread of false teaching and there was a deceived woman in particular who was spreading heresy and needing to be stopped and educated. Not because she’s a ...

@shr_eax @KiflaKajmak @OldPhilos @smashbaals Paul’s purpose in writing Timothy was to stop the spread of false teaching and there was a deceived woman in particular who was spreading heresy and needin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-08

@lilred28607 The only reason a woman should not teach is because she is teaching

@lilred28607 The only reason a woman should not teach is because she is teaching heresy, not because she is a woman! https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If Paul is using Eve prototypically, then the same description of Eve's deception can apply to this specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus. This solves the awkwardness of using 'the woman' to referred to Eve who is alr...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If Paul is using Eve prototypically, then the same description of Eve's deception can apply to this specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus. This solves the awkwardness

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-24

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heresy, not teaching the truth of the Bible. And Paul n...

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heres

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching in Ephesus was important or Paul would have mentio...

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Timothy, he gives him his apostolic authority to hel...

@MarkGrote In 1Ti 2:12, the young and single Timothy is going to need to intervene in between a husband and wife (the wife is teaching heresy and the husband, likely an elder, is silent). To assist Ti

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@opreterista @CalebDixonSmith It seems that the heresy of Philetus and Hymanaeus was teaching a spiritual resurrection and not a physical one: "Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have departed from t...

@opreterista @CalebDixonSmith It seems that the heresy of Philetus and Hymanaeus was teaching a spiritual resurrection and not a physical one: "Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them ar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@jasonrzimmerman @smashbaals I have no interest in rejecting the Bible's teachin

@jasonrzimmerman @smashbaals I have no interest in rejecting the Bible's teachings. Why would I reject the teaching that someone who is teaching heresy should not be allowed to teach heresy?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@MarnerJoshua How am I disobeying the instruction that person should not teach h

@MarnerJoshua How am I disobeying the instruction that person should not teach heresy? How am I blaspheming and attributing to God the works of Satan?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@distinctly_Kara You are right that context is extremely important. 1Ti 2:11-12

@distinctly_Kara You are right that context is extremely important. 1Ti 2:11-12 has to do with a specific wife who is deceived and teaching heresy but her undeceived husband is not saying anything. P

1Ti 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@sethhezekiah No, silly. Heresy has to do with the fundamentals of the faith. No one has to repent of mutual submission to be a Christian. All of the people you listed went along with the culture when it came to women at least to some degree or anot...

@sethhezekiah No, silly. Heresy has to do with the fundamentals of the faith. No one has to repent of mutual submission to be a Christian. All of the people you listed went along with the culture whe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-07

@GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @Idolkiller I was part of a Baptist denomination for 15 years. What makes you think I’m a Judiazer? They taught that following the Mosaic laws such as circumcision were required for believers to ...

@GarOHoff @StanfieldBrent1 @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @Idolkiller I was part of a Baptist denomination for 15 years. What makes you think I’m a Judiazer? They taught that following the Mosaic laws su

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@gzulbaran10 @ronhenzel Yes, “a woman… the woman”—and in 1Ti 2:11-15, we have “a woman… the woman” with the details that she is deceived and teaching heresy and her husband is not deceived and being silent because of Paul’s connection with Adam and E...

@gzulbaran10 @ronhenzel Yes, “a woman… the woman”—and in 1Ti 2:11-15, we have “a woman… the woman” with the details that she is deceived and teaching heresy and her husband is not deceived and being s

1Ti 2:11-15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@ronhenzel Further, this is why Paul reaches to a classical Greek word to get a very specific meaning: “to commit murder of one’s own kin by one’s own hand”—like how Eve handed the fruit to Adam and he ate and brought death to humanity, so also this ...

@ronhenzel Further, this is why Paul reaches to a classical Greek word to get a very specific meaning: “to commit murder of one’s own kin by one’s own hand”—like how Eve handed the fruit to Adam and h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel It says “saved through THE childbearing”—it is a definite noun, not a verb. Given that in the context, Paul is referring to Eve and connecting her situation as a prototype of a specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus, Paul ...

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel It says “saved through THE childbearing”—it is a definite noun, not a verb. Given that in the context, Paul is referring to Eve and connecting her situation as a prototype of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-03

@Peacemaker811 @MikeWingerii Well, I guess a woman cannot teach heresy…but I’m s

@Peacemaker811 @MikeWingerii Well, I guess a woman cannot teach heresy…but I’m sure Mike would agree that men can’t either. So even equal in that one without a 1Tim 2:12 for men. 🤷‍♂️

1Tim 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@TomWarlord @baste_goblin @EchoToaster_ @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn She would prefer I give her more time than you since you are unlikely to listen to anything I write here. Please explain what heresy means to you. Is it anything that we might disag...

@TomWarlord @baste_goblin @EchoToaster_ @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn She would prefer I give her more time than you since you are unlikely to listen to anything I write here. Please explain what heres

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@MartinMarkLuth1 @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn A heretic, huh? So a godly woman teaching truth to someone is damnable heresy? Where do you find this "sin" in any list of sins? Go ahead and look for it. You are misinterpreting the scripture. You are fr...

@MartinMarkLuth1 @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn A heretic, huh? So a godly woman teaching truth to someone is damnable heresy? Where do you find this "sin" in any list of sins? Go ahead and look for it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-21

@MikeWingerii I think if you positively quote a reference that teaches really bad heresy in other areas, you would be best to make clear what you are doing because you may send others reading their material and they may get in trouble. That said, an...

@MikeWingerii I think if you positively quote a reference that teaches really bad heresy in other areas, you would be best to make clear what you are doing because you may send others reading their ma

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

@GodandQountry If mutual submission is heresy, than Jesus committed the biggest

@GodandQountry If mutual submission is heresy, than Jesus committed the biggest heresy of all by becoming a servant of all!! You are obviously mistaken.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-28

@Deigratia1985 @MikeWingerii @SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 You are making up your own definition. A heresy is a false teaching. Everyone who teaches is likely teaching something that’s false. However, a heretic (outside of the Christian fa...

@Deigratia1985 @MikeWingerii @SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 You are making up your own definition. A heresy is a false teaching. Everyone who teaches is likely teaching something that’s false

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-08

@RealCaloJones @KeturahAbigail Not so. Paul was referring to a specific woman w

@RealCaloJones @KeturahAbigail Not so. Paul was referring to a specific woman who was teaching heresy, not women who are commenting on X and definitely not women who are teaching the truth! https://t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-06

@ArmoryOC @Brian_Sauve “A woman” not “all women.” Paul was dealing with a specific situation of a deceived woman who was ignorant but who was no longer in the faith. She was teaching heresy and her husband who wasn’t deceived was not speaking up. ...

@ArmoryOC @Brian_Sauve “A woman” not “all women.” Paul was dealing with a specific situation of a deceived woman who was ignorant but who was no longer in the faith. She was teaching heresy and her

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-26

@DDinho555 @Fahim_4real @Sa_Gwang Women preaching true doctrine or pastoring (making disciples according to Matt 28:18-20) is heresy?? I realize you believe it is wrong but heresy is usually reserved for things that make someone outside of the faith...

@DDinho555 @Fahim_4real @Sa_Gwang Women preaching true doctrine or pastoring (making disciples according to Matt 28:18-20) is heresy?? I realize you believe it is wrong but heresy is usually reserved

Matt 28:18-20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-16

@prayforryan @JaydaBF Would you be ok if a man taught that to the children? Tea

@prayforryan @JaydaBF Would you be ok if a man taught that to the children? Teaching heresy is not gender specific. https://t.co/rBGS8Fof6Y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-16

@JackSpa31473121 On what basis are you making these allegations about me? Because we disagree? I’m a conservative…what is this about New World Order? What is a ‘libtard’? That the idea that a woman can teach or act in the role of a pastor/elder i...

@JackSpa31473121 On what basis are you making these allegations about me? Because we disagree? I’m a conservative…what is this about New World Order? What is a ‘libtard’? That the idea that a woma

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-09-14

It seems suggesting a different take on scripture is heresy to some Patriarchali

It seems suggesting a different take on scripture is heresy to some Patriarchalists. Question: isn’t blocking me taking authority over me? Is she allowed to do that in her own system? https://t.co/m

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