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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-25

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica Man is not the authority over or the ruler over the wife, but the “source” or “origin” of the wife. Christ is also the source of His church which is a bride but made up of both males and females. Jesus is sa...

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica Man is not the authority over or the ruler over the wife, but the “source” or “origin” of the wife. Christ is also the source of His church which is a bride b

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-25

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica I understand that view, but Paul was correcting a problem in the husband wife relationships of those he writes to in the Ephesians letter. The command is “Be filled” and the fruit is described in participles,...

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica I understand that view, but Paul was correcting a problem in the husband wife relationships of those he writes to in the Ephesians letter. The command is “Be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-21

@KeiferStreet @PastorMark I almost agreed with your post except you said “How God chooses people is certainly a mystery.” That is of course what a good Calvinist believes but I believe that God chooses those who fear Him and gives these to Christ. ...

@KeiferStreet @PastorMark I almost agreed with your post except you said “How God chooses people is certainly a mystery.” That is of course what a good Calvinist believes but I believe that God choos

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

@ronhenzel In Ephesians 2:8, Paul's focus on being 'in Christ' emphasizes what believers obtain through faith, not a predestination of who will have faith. The matching gender between 'mercy' and 'gift' aligns with this context, showing that salvatio...

@ronhenzel In Ephesians 2:8, Paul's focus on being 'in Christ' emphasizes what believers obtain through faith, not a predestination of who will have faith. The matching gender between 'mercy' and 'gif

Ephesians 2:8 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-18

While appreciating the beauty in cultural and ethnic differences, it’s vital to recognize that in Christ’s church, God has removed the ethnic dividing wall. Galatians 3:28 tells us, ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, fo...

While appreciating the beauty in cultural and ethnic differences, it’s vital to recognize that in Christ’s church, God has removed the ethnic dividing wall. Galatians 3:28 tells us, ‘There is neither

Galatians 3:28 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf It’s tricky to write something comprehensively and concisely that captures everything. Here’s my attempt! The husband uses his gifts to serve his wife (as does the wife to her husband). Christ’s example of setti...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf It’s tricky to write something comprehensively and concisely that captures everything. Here’s my attempt! The husband uses his gifts to serve his wife (as does th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf Let me ‘splain. It’s that you think the wife is not also to emulate Christ in the way that Ephesians 5 describes of the husband. Perhaps the husband is to go first but the wife treads the same path as it is the s...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf Let me ‘splain. It’s that you think the wife is not also to emulate Christ in the way that Ephesians 5 describes of the husband. Perhaps the husband is to go firs

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf If it’s just an analogy because of marriage which doesn’t restrict women from leadership roles, if it doesn’t mean the husband breaking every tie (unless by mutual consent), if it doesn’t mean you peer into the eye...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf If it’s just an analogy because of marriage which doesn’t restrict women from leadership roles, if it doesn’t mean the husband breaking every tie (unless by mutual

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I love that you said “persuade me”! You are right that the

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I love that you said “persuade me”! You are right that the wife is not the type of Christ in marriage itself but that’s as far as the type goes. This type neither implies nor req

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@pauldirks @CharmyRosewolf @KaeleyT The husband is a type of Christ but that doesn’t mean that the wife is not also to follow the example of Christ. There is only one Christ, not a female one for females to follow and a male one just for males to fo...

@pauldirks @CharmyRosewolf @KaeleyT The husband is a type of Christ but that doesn’t mean that the wife is not also to follow the example of Christ. There is only one Christ, not a female one for fem

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-15

@GillesPaling @William_E_Wolfe @amconmag If you believe that infant baptism saves a child then you are saying that there is salvation conferred by baptism apart from faith in Christ. Seems more primary to me than whether a woman is allowed to teach ...

@GillesPaling @William_E_Wolfe @amconmag If you believe that infant baptism saves a child then you are saying that there is salvation conferred by baptism apart from faith in Christ. Seems more prima

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

RT @ryanschatz: @pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the ma

RT @ryanschatz: @pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the male gender represents Christ and the female gender represent…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the male gender represents Christ and the female gender represents humanity and so any confusion of what you see as a direct connection of gender to the gospel impacts the gospel itself. Yet,...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the male gender represents Christ and the female gender represents humanity and so any confusion of what you see as a direct connection of gen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-14

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, Christ sacrificed to save His bride but His bride consists of both men and women who are in turn called to lay down their lives for one another. Laying down one’s life is not a gendered requirement. And women sacrifice thei...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, Christ sacrificed to save His bride but His bride consists of both men and women who are in turn called to lay down their lives for one another. Laying down one’s life is not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-13

@JohnMoo26668690 @ChristOverChaos The history of feminism is a fundamental of Christianity?? Wowzers. I merely suggested a possible reason for the reaction in our culture. I’m not denying feminism shares claims some things in common with egalitari...

@JohnMoo26668690 @ChristOverChaos The history of feminism is a fundamental of Christianity?? Wowzers. I merely suggested a possible reason for the reaction in our culture. I’m not denying feminism

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@PubliusJosephus @DickSaban1 If the requirement "one wife husband" is the same for both elders and deacons and females can be deacons, then on that basis there is no restriction females cannot be elders. Leadership leads to Christ and His Word; it i...

@PubliusJosephus @DickSaban1 If the requirement "one wife husband" is the same for both elders and deacons and females can be deacons, then on that basis there is no restriction females cannot be elde

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek If you are concerned about me preaching C

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek If you are concerned about me preaching Christ and truth, here’s a sermon I preached at a friends church last summer. https://t.co/ndFJKAjotR

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek “no grounding” “obsessed” “insistant woma

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek “no grounding” “obsessed” “insistant woman’s advocate” “NOT a Christ and truth advocate” “wish to bend scripture” I guess since we are no longer talking about s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Jesus washed Judas' feet at the last supper...Paul called himself "a bondservant of Christ." We are all servants. The context has to be used to determine whether the person is a leader or not. It is leaders t...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Jesus washed Judas' feet at the last supper...Paul called himself "a bondservant of Christ." We are all servants. The context has to be used to determine wheth

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@AbJrogg @FeralChristineB @Conservative_BC But my brother’s wife’s second cousin

@AbJrogg @FeralChristineB @Conservative_BC But my brother’s wife’s second cousin twice removed is a doctor who did research and published papers on the subject. Oh well…I guess I’ll rip up his resear

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Well, what happens to single women who don't have a husband? I think this passage refers to how the wife often sticks with an abusive, controlling husband even though it doesn't make sense. I could be wrong, bu...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Well, what happens to single women who don't have a husband? I think this passage refers to how the wife often sticks with an abusive, controlling husband even t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Parents are responsible for children. Onc

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Parents are responsible for children. Once they grow up, they are responsible for themselves.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck In that day, a woman was dependent on her husband to survive. By divorcing his wife, she would be forced to remarry to survive and therefore commit adultery. I am not adding and removing things based on what I ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck In that day, a woman was dependent on her husband to survive. By divorcing his wife, she would be forced to remarry to survive and therefore commit adultery. I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-10

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Like Peter acknowledges, “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort…” (...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Like Peter acknowledges, “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understa

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica Man is not the authority over or the ruler over the wife, but the “source” or “origin” of the wife. Christ is also the source of His church which is a bride but made up of both males and females. Jesus is sa...

@pkh7276_pkh @MarkGrote @OperHealAmerica I understand that view, but Paul was correcting a problem in the husband wife relationships of those he writes to in the Ephesians letter. The command is “Be filled” and the fruit is described in participles,...

@KeiferStreet @PastorMark I almost agreed with your post except you said “How God chooses people is certainly a mystery.” That is of course what a good Calvinist believes but I believe that God chooses those who fear Him and gives these to Christ. ...

@ronhenzel In Ephesians 2:8, Paul's focus on being 'in Christ' emphasizes what believers obtain through faith, not a predestination of who will have faith. The matching gender between 'mercy' and 'gift' aligns with this context, showing that salvatio...

While appreciating the beauty in cultural and ethnic differences, it’s vital to recognize that in Christ’s church, God has removed the ethnic dividing wall. Galatians 3:28 tells us, ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, fo...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf It’s tricky to write something comprehensively and concisely that captures everything. Here’s my attempt! The husband uses his gifts to serve his wife (as does the wife to her husband). Christ’s example of setti...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf Let me ‘splain. It’s that you think the wife is not also to emulate Christ in the way that Ephesians 5 describes of the husband. Perhaps the husband is to go first but the wife treads the same path as it is the s...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT @CharmyRosewolf If it’s just an analogy because of marriage which doesn’t restrict women from leadership roles, if it doesn’t mean the husband breaking every tie (unless by mutual consent), if it doesn’t mean you peer into the eye...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT I love that you said “persuade me”! You are right that the

@pauldirks @CharmyRosewolf @KaeleyT The husband is a type of Christ but that doesn’t mean that the wife is not also to follow the example of Christ. There is only one Christ, not a female one for females to follow and a male one just for males to fo...

@GillesPaling @William_E_Wolfe @amconmag If you believe that infant baptism saves a child then you are saying that there is salvation conferred by baptism apart from faith in Christ. Seems more primary to me than whether a woman is allowed to teach ...

RT @ryanschatz: @pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the ma

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Paul, I think you are suggesting that the male gender represents Christ and the female gender represents humanity and so any confusion of what you see as a direct connection of gender to the gospel impacts the gospel itself. Yet,...

@pauldirks @KaeleyT Yes, Christ sacrificed to save His bride but His bride consists of both men and women who are in turn called to lay down their lives for one another. Laying down one’s life is not a gendered requirement. And women sacrifice thei...

@JohnMoo26668690 @ChristOverChaos The history of feminism is a fundamental of Christianity?? Wowzers. I merely suggested a possible reason for the reaction in our culture. I’m not denying feminism shares claims some things in common with egalitari...

@PubliusJosephus @DickSaban1 If the requirement "one wife husband" is the same for both elders and deacons and females can be deacons, then on that basis there is no restriction females cannot be elders. Leadership leads to Christ and His Word; it i...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek If you are concerned about me preaching C

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek “no grounding” “obsessed” “insistant woma

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Jesus washed Judas' feet at the last supper...Paul called himself "a bondservant of Christ." We are all servants. The context has to be used to determine whether the person is a leader or not. It is leaders t...

@AbJrogg @FeralChristineB @Conservative_BC But my brother’s wife’s second cousin

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Well, what happens to single women who don't have a husband? I think this passage refers to how the wife often sticks with an abusive, controlling husband even though it doesn't make sense. I could be wrong, bu...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Parents are responsible for children. Onc

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck In that day, a woman was dependent on her husband to survive. By divorcing his wife, she would be forced to remarry to survive and therefore commit adultery. I am not adding and removing things based on what I ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Like Peter acknowledges, “He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort…” (...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck How am I doing this? I’m dismantling the

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck What teachings of Paul, Peter, Moses and J

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek I’m not dismissing anything. I’m exegeting this idiom in context. I think we need to first address your comment “That’s the behaviour of an egalitarian, not a Believer.” Are you suggesting I’m not a Christian...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck No doubt you are correct there are disparities all over. But the woman is the very flesh and bone of the man and equal to him. This is not about envy or death. I have no idea how you get this characterization ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck The sun represents God and we reflect light like the earth and moon (we don’t originate it). I’m not sure what your point is here. “…before you start dismantling what He’s done.” - Another baseless allegation. ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck “You can demonstrate that you’re being honest by dealing with a single point that’s made.” - Ok. “When I’m talking with people I never assume I’m being honest.” - (scratching head) “The Pharisees thought they w...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck “A man will often know much less than his wife” - Interesting you admit this. “…this has nothing to do with his authority.” - Well, yes, if God gave the man authority over his wife then her knowledge would have ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck I’m not disputing the apostles and the Law. You are making baseless allegations. Maybe you think that’s fun and I’m supposed to laugh, but you should be concerned about truth. Given that God is over all humani...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Now you are inferring I’m not being honest

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck I agreed with you about the law. You shou

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Egalitarianism is a philosophy that says there is no hierarchy of one gender over the other, no ruling or authority of simply because of gender. Gender and ethnicity are baked into the OT system. Any male with ...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck You are right in that the husband is the kephale of his wife (since marriage always refers back to the first marriage). The problem is that you presume kephale means authority over or rule over. It means source...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck “No laws were given to Adam and Eve” - Asi

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck You missed: “And I submit to her as a groo

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck What, you can’t read Gen 3:16 either? Why don’t you answer my questions then? Why didn’t God tell Adam he should rule the woman? Why were his words to Eve future not present? I don’t advocate for women forcin...

@ChristChurchTe1 @uncledando @TomBuck Notice it’s the same as masters ruling sla

@ChristChurchTe1 @uncledando @TomBuck I’m not wriggling. I’m reading. https://t

@ChristChurchTe1 @uncledando @TomBuck No, but this statement is: 1. Post fall 2.

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck So where does that leave single women? I have a feeling we have a totally different idea of what leading means. Both the husband and the wife lead in different ways and different times. It is a mutual leadersh...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Men and women both form the bride of Christ. Just like Adam was the origin of Eve (she came from his flesh and bone), so also the Christ is the origin of the church (our life comes from Him). Jesus is said to r...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck I’m simply looking at the text and taking it for what it is: a prophecy from God to the woman about what will happen as a consequence of the fall. If you understand head as “source” or “origin” the church origin...

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Without the limitation of having men rule

@uncledando @ChristChurchTe1 @TomBuck Why would you say that? I don’t “hate God

@ChristChurchTe1 @uncledando @TomBuck Consequence of the fall. Not God’s origin

RT @ryanschatz: @TomBuck Gal 3:26-28 shows that there is a change for those in t

@TomBuck Gal 3:26-28 shows that there is a change for those in the church (in Ch

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