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@carol66944 Paul had to say that love was the goal of his instruction for Timoth

@carol66944 Paul had to say that love was the goal of his instruction for Timothy to stop certain ones from teaching strange doctrines because it would be easy to treat deceived people harshly (just l

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@robotcop1984 @sola_chad You are hypothesizing. Nowhere does he identify as a widower. That would be an important detail. It would also be important to know if he was married but his wife left him. But Paul advocates for everyone (if possible) to be...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad You are hypothesizing. Nowhere does he identify as a widower. That would be an important detail. It would also be important to know if he was married but his wife left him. B

@carol66944 Paul had to say that love was the goal of his instruction for Timoth

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad You are hypothesizing. Nowhere does he identify as a widower. That would be an important detail. It would also be important to know if he was married but his wife left him. But Paul advocates for everyone (if possible) to be...

My dear complementarians and patriarchalists, please see some examples of mother

@DBryanRhodes @TomBuck First, Even spoke to the serpent as she was reasoning thr

@BradPaints @megbasham No, but you probably shouldn't be teaching the Bible to a

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Ah, you are going to try to claim that he couldn't be a 'highly respected' pharisee without being married, right? So is the requirement in 1Ti 3:2 "Must have been married at some point in time"? Paul says he is single and ne...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Before what? Before he was an apostle? He wasn't a beli

@Super_SloMoe @bookkeepPLUS Jesus told his disciples to teach all nations to obey and teach what He commanded them. This was not meant only for males. And 1Ti 2:12 in the context of Paul's personal letter to Timothy regarding him instructing certain ...

@1_of__99 @RevKimWChafee Where do you get the idea that male headship means auth

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Really? From one comment you think I told you everything I know about Paul? If Paul meant an elder must be married, then Paul was disqualified himself. Therefore, he clearly didn’t mean this. Further, since he commended ever...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad 100% yes. So then can you please answer my question? Is

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Paul is most definitely an overseer in addition to an a

@salthenurse08 @Romans8Shaman @megbasham That’s kind of funny. I wonder if all t

@JamesEwen0407 @sola_chad Sure there are. I’ll link a text which lists 10 of them. BTW, the church is simply a gathering of believers. If 10 people gather and none are appointed leaders, you still have church. It is healthier to have people appointe...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad I am not sure how much you know Greek, but while the Greek in 1Ti 3:1-7 uses masculine forms, this is often how one writes in Koine when speaking generically. There are no male pronouns in the text. Check for yourself. As I s...

@BHarkins96928 @sola_chad Caiaphas was the High Priest at the time of Jesus’ cru

@MarkWood282212 @sola_chad Can you show me the scripture where he is called ‘pas

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Now if we look at 1Ti 3:1-7, we see: - Nothing forbidding women from serving, - Nothing forbidding singles or the childless, - There aren’t even any male pronouns. So I fail to understand why people forbid qualified, gifted ...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Well, the epistles don’t forbid women from serving as elders or teaching truth to anyone. I asked the question b/c of the claim that the NT doesn’t list any F pastors so clearly they weren’t allowed. My response was there ar...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad I understand that. Where is a man specifically named ‘p

@ShawnWGillogly @ronhenzel This is one of the many arguments i make after exeget

@LukeBennerE @sola_chad Yes, pastors are overseers. Now what about the question

Here’s someone else mourning the shift in Mike Winger’s ministry. And yes, Mike

@BlacktopPreachr What scripture are you referring to? Paul did tell the Ephesia

@BronWen727104 So you have a pastor of kitchen duty? A pastor who manages distri

@BronWen727104 Yes, I agree with that. But I don’t see a paid/unpaid distinction

@LoganRamseySDG @sola_chad Do you have a passage where they are called pastor?

@BronWen727104 “And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ…” (Eph 4:11–12) If all are equippe...

@ronhenzel First, I didn’t move the goalposts. I explained what I meant. So it only moved in your head. 2nd, my reason for noting that no one is called ‘pastor’ (as in their title) is to show that the argument that no woman is given this title holds...

@ronhenzel Ron, thanks for the reply. It’s been a while. I want to clarify what I meant: There is not one instance in the New Testament where an individual is directly called by the title pastor (ποιμήν). Eph 4:11 uses the noun ποιμένας (pastors) in...

@sstaedtler98 @BenGuptill @sola_chad I disagree. There are different forms of pr

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage People criticize egalitarians for claiming that it’s about Christian women following the Artemis cult when Paul’s words suggest it’s about genealogies and what sounds like Jewish myths. And the idea of usurping mal...

@slyoung687 Yes, but Paul nor Jesus tells or shows by their actions that wolf ta

@slyoung687 Precisely. I’m not asking him to debate, but to discuss. And I’m asking him to substantiate his divisive calls to tell egalitarian teachers to repent and those who attend egalitarian churches to loudly leave and take as many others with t...

@Mischakatja @3AngelsWatchman No, it says “Adam was NOT deceived”—nowhere in scripture is Adam described as being deceived. And the reason has to do with the time sequence order in which they were created. I cover this in the following thread startin...

@slyoung687 Precisely. Something is off with Mike when he did this series… and h

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage Where in scripture does it say Timothy was t

@slyoung687 The problem is that by actually *removing* them he is likely going to harm the sheep. He claims he isn’t pulling weeds (to avoid going against what Jesus said) but then says he removes wolves. In the meantime he has stopped teaching thro...

@slyoung687 As I had mentioned in the past, he chooses to decide by consensus, just like how egalitarian marriages make decisions. So he is functionally egalitarian and “the authority” by label only…or so it would seem. Read the following and the po...

@slyoung687 I understand that. Mike seems to want to use his power of nearly 1M

@BronWen727104 Sure, I get that. But I guess then that this strays from what the

@bannedpastor 1Ti 2:12 has nothing to do with feminism. Paul wrote a personal le

@slyoung687 It’s really unfortunate as I think we could have has a good discussi

@BronWen727104 So someone serving by leading the kitchen crew or managing the distribution to the widows is a pastoring function? I don’t think we are looking at English wording but what terms and contexts the biblical authors used this word for. T...

@MAgbogidi @sola_chad Where is anyone specifically identified as 'pastor' in the

@NonEgalitarian @NaturalHierarch No it doesn't. It's dealing with a specific iss

@BronWen727104 But weren't deacons specifically chosen to so that the elders could focus on teaching, doctrine, correcting issues, etc., and the deacons take on the other service tasks? Doesn't mean that they couldn't be pastoring or couldn't teach, ...

@bannedpastor What does that passage have to do with popping pills?

@JEM_Books @sola_chad @ElleRulavage If Paul was responding to questions from the church at Ephesus, then why does he write his letter only to Timothy? And why doesn't he mention anything about Artemis? I take a different view which I think sticks mor...

@megbasham @Romans8Shaman You do realize, don't you, that 1Ti 2:12 doesn't say a

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@slyoung687 The problem is that by actually removing them he is likely going to harm the sheep. He claims he isn’t pulling weeds (to avoid going against what Jesus said) but then says he removes wolves. In the meantime he has stopped teaching thro...