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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

@ronhenzel Next time you talk to someone and mention your wife’s name, follow it up with “the woman” and then ask your wife what she thinks of that. Is this how we normally speak? “Tamara is coming…but the woman will be late”?? Ah, but we have ano...

@ronhenzel Next time you talk to someone and mention your wife’s name, follow it up with “the woman” and then ask your wife what she thinks of that. Is this how we normally speak? “Tamara is coming…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

@ronhenzel However, this is the case of a noun being repeated twice, not a prono

@ronhenzel However, this is the case of a noun being repeated twice, not a pronoun; one anarthrous and one arthrous. And we have two women in this case: Eve and an unknown unnamed woman. How would P

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

In 1 Tim 2:15, who are the “she” and the “they” referring to? Options: 1. A generic woman / all women 2. Eve / all women 3. Women* / all women 4. A specific woman / her and her husband 5. Something else? *Note: some translations change the singula...

In 1 Tim 2:15, who are the “she” and the “they” referring to? Options: 1. A generic woman / all women 2. Eve / all women 3. Women* / all women 4. A specific woman / her and her husband 5. Something

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-30

@ronhenzel @ortrails @goteamcarr This commentator has no idea who the "she" and "they" are, misses Paul's reference to the 'seed of the woman, Eve' (ie. the childbearing⎯definite singular noun), and is hypothesizing about home roles. Paul is writing...

@ronhenzel @ortrails @goteamcarr This commentator has no idea who the "she" and "they" are, misses Paul's reference to the 'seed of the woman, Eve' (ie. the childbearing⎯definite singular noun), and i

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-30

Here’s how 1 Tim 2:10-15 works syntactically and contextually⎯ Paul is not referring to a typical woman or women in general, but instructing Timothy on how to deal with a specific unnamed deceived woman who⎯like her prototype "Eve"⎯is handing the "a...

Here’s how 1 Tim 2:10-15 works syntactically and contextually⎯ Paul is not referring to a typical woman or women in general, but instructing Timothy on how to deal with a specific unnamed deceived wo

1 Tim 2:10-15 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-29

@3HillsMinor @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Of course I have a pastor, it's not Winger but I do appreciate much of his work. There are female elders in my church (as you might expect). We are leaving the Reformed Church of Am...

@3HillsMinor @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Of course I have a pastor, it's not Winger but I do appreciate much of his work. There are female elders in my church (as you might

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-29

@ymmotrojam @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning What informat

@ymmotrojam @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning What information is absent? Paul doesn’t want to name a deceived woman in his letter. How might he refer to her so that Timothy wou

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-29

@ymmotrojam @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Tom. I'm not making this up. I'm just describing the grammar. A particular deceived woman is simply noting that Paul moves from plural "all women" to "a woman/wife" and in v14 says...

@ymmotrojam @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Tom. I'm not making this up. I'm just describing the grammar. A particular deceived woman is simply noting that Paul moves from pl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@graceforprize @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning I didn't flip, Paul switched to the singular. This should stand out clearly to any Greek reader. Paul is focusing on a specific deceived woman who has left orthodoxy and who is u...

@graceforprize @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning I didn't flip, Paul switched to the singular. This should stand out clearly to any Greek reader. Paul is focusing on a specific

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@psalm119164 @chris_jolliff Maybe all the men don’t understand because the teach

@psalm119164 @chris_jolliff Maybe all the men don’t understand because the teacher is a woman and so the men have their fingers in their ears?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam I already know your argument and explained how Paul is excluded if it means husband (the passage also would by that same argument require multiple children and that they all believe). - I already explained the meaning of 1 ...

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam I already know your argument and explained how Paul is excluded if it means husband (the passage also would by that same argument require multiple children and that they all

1 Tim 2:11 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@psalm119164 @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam This is not about encouraging false teaching or false prophecy! After all, that is precisely what Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop. A godly woman teaching true doctrine to women to groups including men is...

@psalm119164 @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam This is not about encouraging false teaching or false prophecy! After all, that is precisely what Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop. A godly woman teaching

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii I believe Paul was searching for a word that represented perfectly what he was getting at. If he wanted to say a woman should not take a place of authority, he had several common words he could hav...

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii I believe Paul was searching for a word that represented perfectly what he was getting at. If he wanted to say a woman should not take a place of a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii The reason I don't prefer "domineer" or "master" is because of how Paul uses the example of Adam and Eve and I don't think this was what was going on in the garden of Eden. I think he's tying the f...

@SimonReye @hashim_warren @Duke456521 @MikeWingerii The reason I don't prefer "domineer" or "master" is because of how Paul uses the example of Adam and Eve and I don't think this was what was going o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning I'm glad you are interested in what Paul inspired by the Spirit. I completely agree! I also agree that when read in a wooden literal way it is impossible for a woman to be "the husband of one w...

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning I'm glad you are interested in what Paul inspired by the Spirit. I completely agree! I also agree that when read in a wooden literal way it is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam Tom, I'm going to prophesy to you over X... You have seen a woman w

@ymmotrojam Tom, I'm going to prophesy to you over X... You have seen a woman who speaks in church as unclean to this point. But what God has cleansed, NO LONGER CONSIDER UNCLEAN.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam So a woman can bump into 5 church friends at Walmart, gather in a ci

@ymmotrojam So a woman can bump into 5 church friends at Walmart, gather in a circle and pray out loud for each other and prophesy, but if they did this in the formal gathering, they would be sinning?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam Can you point out where Paul states that a woman speaking in a specific type of gathering is called a SIN? (this detail is important⎯it should be very clear that this is a SIN). Additionally, does Paul specify that the sinfulness of an ...

@ymmotrojam Can you point out where Paul states that a woman speaking in a specific type of gathering is called a SIN? (this detail is important⎯it should be very clear that this is a SIN). Addition

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam Again, you are making up this whole idea of formal/informal, and it only causes confusion, especially when you tie it to sin. Further, Paul's instruction was actually NOT to cover one's head. That includes women. Except if a woman is m...

@ymmotrojam Again, you are making up this whole idea of formal/informal, and it only causes confusion, especially when you tie it to sin. Further, Paul's instruction was actually NOT to cover one's h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam Ok, but you are literally making this up. The church is the people...whoever can make it...whether they knew about a formal invite or not. So every woman is going to come and say "Hey, pastor, was there a formal invite that went out? I...

@ymmotrojam Ok, but you are literally making this up. The church is the people...whoever can make it...whether they knew about a formal invite or not. So every woman is going to come and say "Hey, p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam If I were a woman in your church, I would consider the Bible study t

@ymmotrojam If I were a woman in your church, I would consider the Bible study to be my church. That is where I would feel God is able to use me without restriction. I would tolerate Sunday morning

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam They can teach or preach in whatever capacity their gifting allows them to. What they cannot do is teach false doctrine which leads away from faith in Christ's work alone which is what the woman in Ephesus was doing. I'm ...

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam They can teach or preach in whatever capacity their gifting allows them to. What they cannot do is teach false doctrine which leads away from faith in Christ's work alone w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam You are undermining your own case by recognizing thes

@ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam You are undermining your own case by recognizing these facts. If a woman can exercise such an authoritative Scripture-level prophetic gift with men present, then what is le

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning That’s what I’m contending. I’m contending this is not referring to all women because Paul explicitly uses the singular and specifies it is a specific woman because of the anaphoric reference to...

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning That’s what I’m contending. I’m contending this is not referring to all women because Paul explicitly uses the singular and specifies it is a sp

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@graceforprize @sympatheticNPC What we see is: >> all people (vv1-7) >> all males (v8) >> all females (vv9-10) >> a woman (v11) >> a woman (wife), a man (husband) (v12) >> Ada...

@graceforprize @sympatheticNPC What we see is: >> all people (vv1-7) >> all males (v8) >> all females (vv9-10) >> a woman (v11) >> a woman (wife

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@graceforprize So your view is that a woman should not teach a man anything? So

@graceforprize So your view is that a woman should not teach a man anything? So teaching her son is ok...until when? 13? Jesus also only selected Jewish males as His apostles. We don't seem concer

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@Isaiah45_7 I framed the poll this way because I don’t see a significant distinction between the office and the function. So if a woman doesn’t occupy the office but teaches, this to me is the same. You are free to think of me as a fool. It’s natu...

@Isaiah45_7 I framed the poll this way because I don’t see a significant distinction between the office and the function. So if a woman doesn’t occupy the office but teaches, this to me is the same.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@c_w_henderson @Kdubtru Correct. It’s clearly referring to a particular deceive

@c_w_henderson @Kdubtru Correct. It’s clearly referring to a particular deceived woman teaching false doctrine at the church at Ephesus who Paul didn’t want to name. https://t.co/rBGS8Fof6Y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@thatlandinotho False teachers and deception is not limited to one biological se

@thatlandinotho False teachers and deception is not limited to one biological sex. That verse in 1 Tim 2:12 has to do with a specific deceived woman teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@MikeWingerii I went to the section on 1 Tim 2:15 first out of curiosity and it seems you didn’t address the view I have been sharing for quite some time (see below). Were you not aware of this view? It is the one that suggests that “a woman” in vs...

@MikeWingerii I went to the section on 1 Tim 2:15 first out of curiosity and it seems you didn’t address the view I have been sharing for quite some time (see below). Were you not aware of this view?

1 Tim 2:15 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@PauleyMo67 BTW, you are actually quoting what was said **at the tomb** when Mary Magdeline discovered that Jesus was missing. This is not what she said when telling the disciples the good news! “They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you crying?’ She sai...

@PauleyMo67 BTW, you are actually quoting what was said **at the tomb** when Mary Magdeline discovered that Jesus was missing. This is not what she said when telling the disciples the good news! “Th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@ich1ban123456 @TemAleSaEliTa @Kdubtru That passage—read in context and taking Paul’s grammar seriously—is referring to a deceived woman at the church of Ephesus who was teaching false doctrine. Paul only names blasphemers who know the truth but don...

@ich1ban123456 @TemAleSaEliTa @Kdubtru That passage—read in context and taking Paul’s grammar seriously—is referring to a deceived woman at the church of Ephesus who was teaching false doctrine. Paul

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@ich1ban123456 @TemAleSaEliTa @Kdubtru Let’s move on from the donkey. Why would

@ich1ban123456 @TemAleSaEliTa @Kdubtru Let’s move on from the donkey. Why would God forbid a godly, gifted woman with exemplary character and a willingness to lead from leading a church? Give me you

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-22

@JohnMoo26668690 The appeal to creation is because Adam and Eve are a template o

@JohnMoo26668690 The appeal to creation is because Adam and Eve are a template of a situation in Ephesus where a woman who is deceived and outside of orthodoxy and is teaching false doctrine where her

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-21

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris These things being true⎯and you won't be able to refute them, the only other anarthrous is "a woman" in vs 11-12. This fits as she is there in the church at Ephesus. She is deceived and unsaved but her husband is not decei...

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris These things being true⎯and you won't be able to refute them, the only other anarthrous is "a woman" in vs 11-12. This fits as she is there in the church at Ephesus. She is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-21

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris While you are working hard on that question, you'll also want to consider that "the woman’s" transgression that happened because she was deceived was a past action, but the continuing results of the transgression are a prese...

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris While you are working hard on that question, you'll also want to consider that "the woman’s" transgression that happened because she was deceived was a past action, but the c

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-21

@clbolt Yes, that’s right. If a woman has the requisite godly character traits listed in 1 Tim 3 and God has gifted her to teach or pastor and has placed the desire on her for this difficult role, she should not be excluded simply because she is a w...

@clbolt Yes, that’s right. If a woman has the requisite godly character traits listed in 1 Tim 3 and God has gifted her to teach or pastor and has placed the desire on her for this difficult role, sh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-21

@AJRigney @ZacharyGarris There’s nothing in this verse that suggests the issue is interruptions. The context is dealing with false teachers, and so the most natural explanation is that there is a deceived woman teaching false doctrine whose non-dece...

@AJRigney @ZacharyGarris There’s nothing in this verse that suggests the issue is interruptions. The context is dealing with false teachers, and so the most natural explanation is that there is a dec

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@notofthischurch @Soteriology101 @IkeLifeLike @joel_budreau The woman sinned first but scripture says it is through one man that sin entered laying the blame on Adam, this because he sinned with knowledge and was not deceived like Eve. The reason is...

@notofthischurch @Soteriology101 @IkeLifeLike @joel_budreau The woman sinned first but scripture says it is through one man that sin entered laying the blame on Adam, this because he sinned with knowl

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@realAndresP @Provokatov Isn’t she just talking? That scripture was about teaching false doctrine in church. What does that have to do with a woman sharing her opinions on X? If you want to continue using this verse, you should maybe look at it mo...

@realAndresP @Provokatov Isn’t she just talking? That scripture was about teaching false doctrine in church. What does that have to do with a woman sharing her opinions on X? If you want to continu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@htt_tnd Would it help if a man posted something instead? I think it is naive to think that Paul’s intent in that passage was to suggest that a woman speaking true things should be stopped because only a man is allowed to do so. Perhaps it’s time t...

@htt_tnd Would it help if a man posted something instead? I think it is naive to think that Paul’s intent in that passage was to suggest that a woman speaking true things should be stopped because on

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@DougGroothuis “Thus, Paul does not bar women from ministries that involve teaching and/or having authority over men (whether locally or universally). Rather, when Paul says that a woman must neither teach nor authentein a man, **he has in mind what ...

@DougGroothuis “Thus, Paul does not bar women from ministries that involve teaching and/or having authority over men (whether locally or universally). Rather, when Paul says that a woman must neither

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-19

@HebronC777 What would you do if you found out that a woman authored the letter

@HebronC777 What would you do if you found out that a woman authored the letter to the Hebrews? Ever wonder why this letter doesn’t identify the author?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-19

@RealizeYour @autocorrect2_0 @markallison This passage doesn’t teach that all wo

@RealizeYour @autocorrect2_0 @markallison This passage doesn’t teach that all women cannot teach but that a specific woman who was teaching false doctrine needed to quietly learn first. https://t.co/r

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-09

@nevermindlind @smashbaals You are assuming the conclusion. The great commission is to make disciples and the early churches were not mega church buildings with special pulpits but house churches. In what sense is a woman who has the requisite char...

@nevermindlind @smashbaals You are assuming the conclusion. The great commission is to make disciples and the early churches were not mega church buildings with special pulpits but house churches. I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-09

@nevermindlind @smashbaals But a godly woman teaching true doctrine isn’t respon

@nevermindlind @smashbaals But a godly woman teaching true doctrine isn’t responsible for ruining the church, right? Are you not just referring to false teaching coming I to the church regardless of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-06

@wbigs2001 @eltrucker87 @smashbaals I fear that you are going to be surprised. First, you are falsely accusing me of things I didn’t even say or support. Second, people disagree on many secondary matters. Where is a woman who preaches or teaches t...

@wbigs2001 @eltrucker87 @smashbaals I fear that you are going to be surprised. First, you are falsely accusing me of things I didn’t even say or support. Second, people disagree on many secondary ma

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-06

@TowChains1 @DickSaban1 The man leaves his parents in order to cleave to his wife. This is by God's design. “Then the man said, 'At last this is bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called ‘woman,’ Because she was taken out of man....

@TowChains1 @DickSaban1 The man leaves his parents in order to cleave to his wife. This is by God's design. “Then the man said, 'At last this is bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-06

@Mockinglogos @DickSaban1 Actually, ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή translates to 'the wife of one man,' and μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα to 'the husband of one woman.' The phrases are equivalent in meaning but use the genitive case differently to indicate possession. It j...

@Mockinglogos @DickSaban1 Actually, ἑνὸς ἀνδρὸς γυνή translates to 'the wife of one man,' and μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα to 'the husband of one woman.' The phrases are equivalent in meaning but use the genit

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-05

@SadieMills19 @The_Wry_Griot @smashbaals Regarding the part from the commentary you provided regarding the law reference. Genesis 3:16 is not a commandment ("shall rule" is not in the imperative), it was spoken to the woman (so God wasn't giving Ada...

@SadieMills19 @The_Wry_Griot @smashbaals Regarding the part from the commentary you provided regarding the law reference. Genesis 3:16 is not a commandment ("shall rule" is not in the imperative), it

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