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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-04

@OrinRomine @ryancduff Paul is dealing with false teaching and its affects on the Ephesian church. Men were using anger in their prayers probably complaining about false teaching, women were using outward adornments to show which one was holy and sh...

@OrinRomine @ryancduff Paul is dealing with false teaching and its affects on the Ephesian church. Men were using anger in their prayers probably complaining about false teaching, women were using ou

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@eclctve @Lovecraftian12 @smashbaals I like your response, I just don't think do

@eclctve @Lovecraftian12 @smashbaals I like your response, I just don't think dogmatic teaching is in view here. I don't listen to someone because they are dogmatic, I listen because they are communi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@ronhenzel I did see this before, but after re-reading it, I see that these study notes do catch that salvation from deception due to the false teaching is mentioned. This is good. He does point out the reference back to Gen 3:15, the seed of the w...

@ronhenzel I did see this before, but after re-reading it, I see that these study notes do catch that salvation from deception due to the false teaching is mentioned. This is good. He does point out

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@ronhenzel @HwsEleutheroi We have "a woman" who, if she exists in the church at Ephesus, can be the anarthrous which the article is being pointed to by the article. She also fits the grammar of v15: "She (the deceived wife teaching false doctrine) w...

@ronhenzel @HwsEleutheroi We have "a woman" who, if she exists in the church at Ephesus, can be the anarthrous which the article is being pointed to by the article. She also fits the grammar of v15:

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@Lovecraftian12 @smashbaals Let me guess…you want women to learn but not use tha

@Lovecraftian12 @smashbaals Let me guess…you want women to learn but not use that knowledge to benefit others? What if they didn’t move their lips but used sign language instead? Or would you be ok

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel I don't follow your logic here. Why does there need to be two prototypes? There is literally a specific unnamed deceived wife teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus. Eve is being used to show that the situation in ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel I don't follow your logic here. Why does there need to be two prototypes? There is literally a specific unnamed deceived wife teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-02

@WWUTTcom So what I hear you saying is that you don’t want to bother looking more carefully at this text because its just obvious to you that God forbids someone with a sex they were born with from teaching men. This despite the fact that I know man...

@WWUTTcom So what I hear you saying is that you don’t want to bother looking more carefully at this text because its just obvious to you that God forbids someone with a sex they were born with from te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

@smashbaals First, the reason only women meet is because you told them males can

@smashbaals First, the reason only women meet is because you told them males can’t be present when a woman is teaching. Second, false teaching spreads from a lack of discernment which affects men as

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-01

@ronhenzel Most people have never heard of this term, so to the average person...it's complicated. You have extensive training in Greek and years of teaching it, so for you this is a yawner. But yes, this is not unique to Greek. I'm glad you agree...

@ronhenzel Most people have never heard of this term, so to the average person...it's complicated. You have extensive training in Greek and years of teaching it, so for you this is a yawner. But yes

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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 Now isn’t that interesting. So now it is disrespectful to use someone’s teaching on grammar if it supports my interpretation of another passage? 🤔 Listen, I know he doesn’t agree wi...

@3HillsMinor @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning Now isn’t that interesting. So now it is disrespectful to use someone’s teaching on grammar if it supports my interpretation of anot

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-29

@3HillsMinor @Deigratia1985 Why would God want His church to split over something so trivial as whether true doctrine was spoken by a godly female vessel? I am on side with you about the acceptance of sin being a problem, but I’m just saying I don’t...

@3HillsMinor @Deigratia1985 Why would God want His church to split over something so trivial as whether true doctrine was spoken by a godly female vessel? I am on side with you about the acceptance o

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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 2023-11-27

@Deigratia1985 @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam @kelcy_lowry How is one to correct false teaching without being labeled the serpent? Don’t you point them back to the text? Don’t you ask if the text really says what they think it does and re-read it to s...

@Deigratia1985 @ich1ban123456 @ymmotrojam @kelcy_lowry How is one to correct false teaching without being labeled the serpent? Don’t you point them back to the text? Don’t you ask if the text reall

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-27

@3HillsMinor @Deigratia1985 It doesn’t go against the teachings of Paul, but there may be some disagreement in church history no doubt. The pre-Luther Waldensiens accepted women as leaders and pastors, but they weren’t the mainstream. Luther disagr...

@3HillsMinor @Deigratia1985 It doesn’t go against the teachings of Paul, but there may be some disagreement in church history no doubt. The pre-Luther Waldensiens accepted women as leaders and pastor

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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 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

@ZacharyGarris @JohnnyABenson I am an egalitarian. I believe in mutual submission one to another in the body of Christ (which means wives to husbands and husbands to wives, congregants to pastors and pastors to congregants). Women are not restricte...

@ZacharyGarris @JohnnyABenson I am an egalitarian. I believe in mutual submission one to another in the body of Christ (which means wives to husbands and husbands to wives, congregants to pastors and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris Where do we find any statement of women speaking in church or teaching from the pulpit listed as a SIN? The word SIN is never used. If you think that sin is defined by disobeying a command, then consider the following comm...

@ronhenzel @ZacharyGarris Where do we find any statement of women speaking in church or teaching from the pulpit listed as a SIN? The word SIN is never used. If you think that sin is defined by diso

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-26

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 If a church goes egalitarian in rebellion to what they think is the clear teaching of the text, this spells problems. I agree with that. But that is not what I and my church are doing. We don’t believe that these scriptu...

@ymmotrojam @ich1ban123456 If a church goes egalitarian in rebellion to what they think is the clear teaching of the text, this spells problems. I agree with that. But that is not what I and my chur

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-25

@punkpublican I'm glad you allow women to evangelize! Wouldn't that be teaching someone the gospel? Being an elder is simply teaching and correcting to what the Bible says, not making new doctrine. What makes you think that this is the domain of m...

@punkpublican I'm glad you allow women to evangelize! Wouldn't that be teaching someone the gospel? Being an elder is simply teaching and correcting to what the Bible says, not making new doctrine.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-25

@jdenehar We follow elders if they relate God's instructions accurately. So who we are following is actually God and His Word. Elders don't have a special teaching "authority" but a responsibility and a service to offer. About headship, take a loo...

@jdenehar We follow elders if they relate God's instructions accurately. So who we are following is actually God and His Word. Elders don't have a special teaching "authority" but a responsibility a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-25

@3HillsMinor Are we talking again then? I’m not effeminate. I’m very much male. And I’m not twisting scripture just because you don’t agree with or like my exegesis. Paul is dealing with false teachers of any gender as false teaching does not bel...

@3HillsMinor Are we talking again then? I’m not effeminate. I’m very much male. And I’m not twisting scripture just because you don’t agree with or like my exegesis. Paul is dealing with false tea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning You are misinterpreting 1 Tim 2:12. You assume it's as clear as mud, but its just mud in the eye of the complementarians and Patriachists! Read chapter 1⎯how Paul refers to the purpose of stopp...

@3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @Kdubtru @michael_ronning You are misinterpreting 1 Tim 2:12. You assume it's as clear as mud, but its just mud in the eye of the complementarians and Patriachists! Read

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@MikeWingerii In the above clip, and assuming a similar approach is taken in congregational settings, I'm compelled to ask about the authority behind your teachings. Is your authority as a male based on personal interpretation, or does it hold doctr...

@MikeWingerii In the above clip, and assuming a similar approach is taken in congregational settings, I'm compelled to ask about the authority behind your teachings. Is your authority as a male based

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@ChristVictorous An elder is simply someone who has exemplary and proven godly character, is able to handle the Word rightly, is capable of teaching, patient when contradicted, able to deal gently with those who contradict and correct false teaching,...

@ChristVictorous An elder is simply someone who has exemplary and proven godly character, is able to handle the Word rightly, is capable of teaching, patient when contradicted, able to deal gently wit

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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

@cosmoofprague While testifying to the truth of something like the resurrection and the facts forming the basis is not the same as explaining new concepts (ie. teaching), one might say that testifying is more authoritative since teaching is giving so...

@cosmoofprague While testifying to the truth of something like the resurrection and the facts forming the basis is not the same as explaining new concepts (ie. teaching), one might say that testifying

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-24

@graceforprize @sympatheticNPC While testifying to the truth of something like the resurrection and the facts forming the basis is not the same as explaining new concepts (ie. teaching), one might say that testifying is more authoritative since teach...

@graceforprize @sympatheticNPC While testifying to the truth of something like the resurrection and the facts forming the basis is not the same as explaining new concepts (ie. teaching), one might say

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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

@Kdubtru God doesn’t forbid godly qualified women from teaching true doctrine.

@Kdubtru God doesn’t forbid godly qualified women from teaching true doctrine. Sometimes he even speaks through donkeys. 😏

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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

@graceforprize Being able to teach is a gift. It not only declares, but explains and helps make difficult concepts easier to understand and digest. Teachers also help refute false teaching. If God chose women to tell the men, then the problem isn’...

@graceforprize Being able to teach is a gift. It not only declares, but explains and helps make difficult concepts easier to understand and digest. Teachers also help refute false teaching. If God

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@FloridScott Doctrines are facts. Explaining them is the gift of teaching.

@FloridScott Doctrines are facts. Explaining them is the gift of teaching.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-23

@ich1ban123456 @sailemptyskies @B_Christs_Amb The truth of the resurrection is surely a doctrine we must believe; it is fundamental to the Christian faith! Doctrine is truth and simply refers to the teachings of Christ. We see no specific person (a...

@ich1ban123456 @sailemptyskies @B_Christs_Amb The truth of the resurrection is surely a doctrine we must believe; it is fundamental to the Christian faith! Doctrine is truth and simply refers to the

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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 Well, it shows that the authority is in God’s Word, not the vessel. This doesn’t prove women can be pastors, but it should make you think why God would restrict godly women with exemplary character who are gift...

@ich1ban123456 @TemAleSaEliTa @Kdubtru Well, it shows that the authority is in God’s Word, not the vessel. This doesn’t prove women can be pastors, but it should make you think why God would restrict

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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 2023-11-22

@PrayTheRosary12 "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit...

@PrayTheRosary12 "And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the

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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 2023-11-21

@scorpion_bird @ChristnNitemare That makes no sense. And that’s not what Paul i

@scorpion_bird @ChristnNitemare That makes no sense. And that’s not what Paul is teaching either. https://t.co/rBGS8Fof6Y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-21

@ZacharyGarris Now, I haven’t reviewed what this lady is teaching, but godly women should not be prevented from teaching correct doctrine whether it’s to women or men. 1 Tim 2:11-15 is typically used to restrict women. However, in context and with ...

@ZacharyGarris Now, I haven’t reviewed what this lady is teaching, but godly women should not be prevented from teaching correct doctrine whether it’s to women or men. 1 Tim 2:11-15 is typically used

1 Tim 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@DefendTheSheep It’s a pity because after studying these hard passages in more detail we find that Paul wasn’t restricting women at all. His reference to Eve’s deception is only tied to the creation order and not something in her chromosomes. His f...

@DefendTheSheep It’s a pity because after studying these hard passages in more detail we find that Paul wasn’t restricting women at all. His reference to Eve’s deception is only tied to the creation

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

Here’s a short summary of how I think an egalitarian interpretation makes the mo

Here’s a short summary of how I think an egalitarian interpretation makes the most sense of the context, grammar and back reference to Adam and Eve. At least it’s not about restricting all women from

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@Cassidy4Truth @TheEcho13 Is this church? Is she teaching you theology? If not

@Cassidy4Truth @TheEcho13 Is this church? Is she teaching you theology? If not, why are you being so sloppy with the Bible? Besides…that’s not what this verse teaches. https://t.co/rBGS8Fof6Y

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-20

@AdamPage85 @brian_lester88 @tomcatpdx5000 You are right that the order of creation is significant, but in this case Paul is using Adam and Eve as a template for a couple in Ephesus where the deceived wife is teaching false doctrine and the husband w...

@AdamPage85 @brian_lester88 @tomcatpdx5000 You are right that the order of creation is significant, but in this case Paul is using Adam and Eve as a template for a couple in Ephesus where the deceived

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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

@stiiiiiiine @ijbolistani @dirvarda I know that this is a pretty common understanding of that passage, but I don’t believe that when you consider all the evidence in this passage and the back references Paul uses that he is saying this. I believe he...

@stiiiiiiine @ijbolistani @dirvarda I know that this is a pretty common understanding of that passage, but I don’t believe that when you consider all the evidence in this passage and the back referenc

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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

@DezGroves “Christianity” doesn’t hate women. There have always been those who

@DezGroves “Christianity” doesn’t hate women. There have always been those who propagate false teaching in the church. The key is to read your Bible and discern the truth.

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