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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-08-09

@YesThatCollin @Davis_Carlton84 @jaaonpe @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Jesus made Hi

@YesThatCollin @Davis_Carlton84 @jaaonpe @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Jesus made His intentions for the church clear—the greatest should be the slave of all. This is not about figuring out who is top dog

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-28

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Staying with the text of the Bible and not relying on commentaries. Always going back to treating the context as the primary determinant of authorial meaning and intent and treating the text incl...

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Staying with the text of the Bible and not relying on commentaries. Always going back to treating the context as the primary determinant of autho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@VirgilWalkerOMA The text in 2:14 sure does make 'the woman' sound like Eve. I think that's precisely Paul's intent. He's using Eve (and Adam) as prototypes of a specific couple in Ephesus. How? Adam wasn't deceived but Eve was. This wife in Ephesus ...

@VirgilWalkerOMA The text in 2:14 sure does make 'the woman' sound like Eve. I think that's precisely Paul's intent. He's using Eve (and Adam) as prototypes of a specific couple in Ephesus. How? Adam

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-04

@thebrighttunnel @Rach4Patriarchy I am not conflating anything. I never said women were stronger than men in general. And conserving the actual Biblical intention should be considered true conservatism. Tell me please: were women equally saved befor...

@thebrighttunnel @Rach4Patriarchy I am not conflating anything. I never said women were stronger than men in general. And conserving the actual Biblical intention should be considered true conservatis

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-24

@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...

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-24

@vincenzi45384 @Truth_matters20 What don’t I understand? I intentionally don’t

@vincenzi45384 @Truth_matters20 What don’t I understand? I intentionally don’t believe what the RCC is teaching on this.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-17

@watotochurch There's no battle of wills if both are serving the best interests

@watotochurch There's no battle of wills if both are serving the best interests of each other. Peace may come from a one-way hierarchy too, but that wasn't God's intention.

@YesThatCollin @Davis_Carlton84 @jaaonpe @Eric_Conn @iliketopreach Jesus made Hi

@grok @ThomasLinge24 @TheOfficeCalvin @VirgilWalkerOMA Staying with the text of the Bible and not relying on commentaries. Always going back to treating the context as the primary determinant of authorial meaning and intent and treating the text incl...

@VirgilWalkerOMA The text in 2:14 sure does make 'the woman' sound like Eve. I think that's precisely Paul's intent. He's using Eve (and Adam) as prototypes of a specific couple in Ephesus. How? Adam wasn't deceived but Eve was. This wife in Ephesus ...

@thebrighttunnel @Rach4Patriarchy I am not conflating anything. I never said women were stronger than men in general. And conserving the actual Biblical intention should be considered true conservatism. Tell me please: were women equally saved befor...

@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...

@vincenzi45384 @Truth_matters20 What don’t I understand? I intentionally don’t

@watotochurch There's no battle of wills if both are serving the best interests

@ladies4pd I’m a bit curious. You say “those who wield the terms in a certain way” and “this group of prots” and “how the Trinity is conceived”. Do you have a post where you explain what you are referring to here? My intent is to use kephale how th...

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii No, the explicit statement is that

@biblemarriages @yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Jesus simply assumed that a woman may divorce her husband and if she does then He said what was permissible. Jesus is the law giver and the Word so He most certainly can bring clarity to the intent of the...

@faboIus Well the intention was to represent what we all are unified on across e

@JonByers186054 Also, Jesus explicitly bases His teaching on Gen 2, not Dt 24. H

@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 ...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ I'm not redefining kephale to mean something else. I'm asking of each text what sense the author intended by using this word. What makes you think that Jesus' intention is to be the 'boss of' His bride? Jesus is the cr...

@path1_one @rightresponsem Why not use the word "authority" or "lord" if the int

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Then, in Gen 3:16, after the Fall, God says to E

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem If the English translation inserts ideas not in the original words then “following the plain English” is not being faithful to God’s intent. The world God created had no hierarchy until Adam decided to rule his wife. ...

@BronWen727104 @RenewedReformed @sola_chad Philip Payne argues for this idea but I don’t believe it is faithful to the early manuscript evidence. I believe Paul was quoting the Corinthians and so intentionally put v34-35 in, though some scribes later...

@ronhenzel @WonderingBashir @HwsEleutheroi I don’t think you can just label Paul’s switching from pl to sg and then sg back to pl as stylistic—though I agree that you have to say this or your view falls apart. But that would mean Paul is not being i...

@Just_A_Man67 @JRowley11 Not true. And how do you know my intentions? Can you re

@Shatterhan74807 @smashbaals Actually, I believe that is a common misreading of Paul’s intention. Because if he meant “must be male” by his phrasing, then he must also mean “must be married and have two or more children who believe” meaning that not ...

@DanNewcomb1 @ronhenzel I'm not arguing from the perspective of the world. I'm arguing from the perspective of God's intention for His church against the way the world and particularly religions including the Christian church has operated for a very ...

@MikedAlamo @ronhenzel I’m seeking to confuse ‘the teaching’? Interesting that you have access to my intentions. I’m asking complementarians the questions I have on this text, exactly as stated, which complementarians need to consider in trying to c...

@Jskellinton78 I still don’t know what that means. You are just making statements. I’m backing up my view with a careful exegesis of scripture. Where is one human to rule over another ever the intention of Ge 1:28? Both the man and the woman are to ...

@da_sojourner I read it very carefully and definitely conclude that women and me

@noblama @slstruik @MikeWingerii This has to be read in context as it is easy to misinterpret Paul’s intent. Paul’s use of specific grammar (singular instead of plural), the word authentein for “usurp authority” (are men even allowed to do that?) an...

@LostinAusten27 That’s a very literal rendering of the Greek. Yet the intent is

@Matthew56193629 @mtnhousewife Yes, you are correct that monogamy and producing

@MaineMinistry @MikeWingerii Oh, I see what you are getting at now⎯the idea that the local church can look and feel very different and be incompatible with other local churches but still be under the same umbrella as the universal church. I don't th...

@x9ishere @greg_hahn Why are we reading puritans when we should be reading scrip

True egalitarians don’t erase all boundaries. They recognize differences between

If God designed male and female as two equals corresponding to each other, then

Since the scripture doesn't actually teach male gender roles related to position

@AZJenn10 @kevinmyoung Hm. Whether his intentions are pure or not is not for you or I to judge. Showing the importance of the Bible isn’t a problem in my view. A Bible that includes materials related to the founding documents is strange and not my th...

@peace_got @Protestia 1. How do you know my personal desires? I alone know them and they are to be faithful to the intent of the text. 2. I spend most of my time explaining Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus. What are you talking about? 3. It is d...

@carol66944 @Manny_Clay1 These verses make one wonder what Paul is doing here. T

@ReformedCaio @ronhenzel Excellent observation. Given wives were already being treated as property and slaves of their husbands, what do you think Paul’s intent was here? I think it was to elevate how they saw their service. Rather than a position o...

@Altheia_01 @howertonjosh Complementarian theology feeds pride. I’m just hoping

@XianPatriot @Darrin_Caudill @smashbaals @danielsilliman Again, you may be flippant about using the plural and the singular, but Paul seems to be intentional in the flow of this text, starting from all people, men, women, a woman, a man, Adam, Eve, t...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Actually, I know something about that too. When I had two Mormon Bishops in my home, it was clear that God caused the fall so that they could become gods. So it was God's intention that man sinned. There is no overlap w...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Let’s revisit 1Tim. Let’s look for commands. In 1Ti 1:3, Paul said that T should instruct others not to teach strange doctrines. The word for “instruct” can mean to command, but it is a subjunctive—the mood that normally...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul’s audience in this letter is Timothy, a close partner whom he had mentored for years, and so Timothy would understand Paul’s language and intent, even if it included words with a historical connotation. Further, the...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii ...being much less commonly used, requires careful contextual analysis to understand Paul's intent. So yes, word meanings do evolve over time, but just like we might go back to an older word to get at a specific meaning...

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT For sure people have had—and continue to have—faulty views

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT Paul’s intent in this letter is to encourage and instruct Timothy in stopping false teachers. His noting of how he was ignorant in 1Ti 1:13 and how Hymanaeus and Alexander whom he names blaspheme with knowledge in 1Ti 1:19-20 su...

@TarienCole @Calvinator8000 @avyargo @MikeWingerii You have to first understand Paul’s comments in the context of specific instructions to Timothy about how he (second person singular) ought to act (1Ti 3:14-15). If Paul meant to generalize, he would...

@AVER735 @MikeWingerii I didn’t say I was complementarian, I said conservative.

@BalamZuzu @graceforprize @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Exegeting Paul’s inte

@Eric_Conn Hey, that’s the verse I was going to share with you! I’m not twistin

@Grump_Old_Man If God’s intent was to accept Gentiles fully and have them being pastors and leaders and preachers, why wouldn’t he have captured one Gentile sermon? See how this works Grumpy? Name anyone who is called pastor? How about anyone spec...

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