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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

The fact is that gyne means either woman or wife and we have to determine which

The fact is that gyne means either woman or wife and we have to determine which from the context. The same applies for aner and man or husband. Given the context and connection to Adam and Eve, I beli

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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

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situatio

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situation, Paul doesn't make that explicit. I agree with Winger's critique of this point and I don't bring Artemis into my inter

The fact is that gyne means either woman or wife and we have to determine which

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...

While it is common for egalitarians to bring the Artemis cult into this situatio

Winger’s lexical defense is weak because: - The word is rare, and his “neutral”

Even if authentein can mean “exercise authority,” contextual clues in 1Ti 2:12—E

Authentein (the verb form) is extremely rare. Winger cites one example (BGU 1208) as neutral or positive. But one document—especially a private business contract—does not establish how Paul uses the term in a pastoral, theological warning about decep...

The grammar and context suggest that Paul is not banning all women from teaching

Mike Winger rightly says that ἐπιτρέπω (“permit”) doesn’t inherently mean temporary or ongoing—it depends on context. I agree. But that’s exactly the issue: the context of 1Ti 2:12 shows this is not a universal law, but a situational application of ...

I disagree with the view that this was about Paul's opinion, so how can we inter

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Hey, do you also make sure the women in your chur

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon If Paul isn’t using head (Kephale) to denote auth

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Who said the whole church is wrong? Clearly there

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon The thread was about Kephale and your question wa

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon This thread was about ‘head’ and your question was non specific. Tell me if you can, where is anyone let alone a male called a pastor (poimen) in the New Testament? And we only have Peter and John who self identify as ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon 2. Athanasius 3. Basil 4. Theodore of Mopsuestia 5. Eusebius 6. John Chrysostom “The contemporary desire to find in 1 Corinthians 11:3 a basis for the subordination of the Son to the Father has ancient roots. In respon...

@path1_one @rightresponsem What is distorted? Kephale is being used to mean sour

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Notice "anyone" not "any male." "one woman man" is an idiom referring to character, not being married or male (Paul wasn't married nor did he have children and wasn't disqualified). Implied pronouns are male but this is...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon A concordance is a fallible tool. The definitive source is the Bible and its context. The word kephale means head. It's used all over, so there's no debate on this. What that means in context is the question. And every ...

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon He is not in the Greek. There is no pronoun. http

@path1_one @rightresponsem He is distorting the Greek? The Greek is simple. It s

@LordFerguson09 @Dankrightanon Just because you pasted a resource that says keph

@path1_one @rightresponsem Do you also wonder what the commentator Leon Morris i

@path1_one @rightresponsem Head literally means head😊. Whether it is being used

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

@Dankrightanon There's literally not a single passage that says "only men are to

@kennethesee @smashbaals 35 mins a week with a general sermon is enough to learn

@path1_one @rightresponsem Well, no, since we were made in the image of God and

@smashbaals I thought seminary taught how to exposit the text. Wouldn’t every be

@graysonfxx38325 @rightresponsem Such generic statements like that suggests women are like animals that need to be tamed and subdued is precisely why I wrote my response to Joel Webbon. Many men also have born bad fruit. Maybe that tells us that the...

@The_Under_Dog94 The view that women have equal authority as men in alignment with God’s imperatives to both the man and woman in Gen 1:28 is not outside the pale of Christian teaching. What historical creed or confession unifying the church says th...

@JamesGi27467089 Hm. Women can only serve in subservient roles under male leadership, so what I heard them saying was how happy and blessed they were to see women contribute and serve and even how their mother’s instructed them as children—though suc...

@JamesGi27467089 I’m quite happy when complementarians allow more and more freedom to women to take more influential positions. If it is only a denial of the title but allowing them to teach others including men and provide pastoral counseling, and l...

@Dankrightanon Nowhere does scripture ever say that Deborah was made judge as a judgment on Israel. And that’s not how the pattern of the judges worked. God turned Israel over to their enemies because of their sin and then when He had compassion on t...

@Dankrightanon First, there is no ‘command’ that only men be pastors (poimen).

@HeGTiSunesis Part of the difficulty with Paul’s comments is that he doesn’t explicitly state woman as also the glory of God and with Christ also as her head—one is left to deduce this as Paul seems to be noting something that a wife uniquely has as ...

@HeGTiSunesis I knew about the Hebrew refers to the heads of each of the tribes but didn’t connect it with the census in the way you have. Very interesting. Ex 30:12: "When you take the sum (רֹאשׁ, rosh) of the people of Israel..." The LXX translat...

@TheAwokeSlayer I am confused. You said goodbye but now you are responding. If you don’t want to respond, then just ignore my follow up questions. If you are a complementarian who lives like me, an egalitarian, I have no problem with that. Just say ...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok A woman who teaches the truth is to be listened to simply because of the truth she speaks. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether a male or female. A book is neither male nor female—yet di you only read b...

@sola_chad Well, they are certainly not following your faulty interpretation. Ju

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem @grok I’m not trying to trip you up, BTW. Where do you see “roles” defined in scripture? What is the Greek term for ‘role’? I suppose to anyone who thinks something is Biblical and it’s always been the way they believ...

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem The fact that Jesus chose 12 male apostles has n

You don’t want to see…but God reveals the Prov 31 wife working in the public sph

@TheAwokeSlayer @rightresponsem Where does scripture say “you will desire [to co

Any message of peace that leaves out the return of Christ is not the biblical go

Pope Francis made some comments before he died on Monday. He calls everyone children of God, doesn’t seem concerned with the imminent return of Christ and advocates for human induced peace when the Bible says that wars and rumours of wars continue un...

@PrinceAsbel @dalepartridge Sorry…didn’t see this till now. No, I believe both s

@autocorrect2_0 Where does the Bible say that women shouldn’t pastor a church? N

@JamesDitto12 @smashbaals 1. The LXX is an important witness to how the Hebrew was understood very early. 2. The inspired text has only the consonants; vowel markings were added in the 6-10th century AD. So there is a legitimate interpretive questio...

@BigDfromWV9 @smashbaals Are you aware that the Septuagint is the Greek translat

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