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Theology greek term

αὐθεντέω (authenteo)

to domineer / to usurp authority

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σῴζω (sozo)

to save

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ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω (heterodidaskaleo)

to teach differently / to teach strange doctrine

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ὑβριστής (hybristEs)

insolent aggressor / violent transgressor

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ἐπισκοπή (episkopē)

office, oversight, supervision

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κατὰ γνῶσιν (kata gnōsin)

according to knowledge / understanding

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κύριος (kyrios)

lord / master / sir

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ἔζερ (ezer)

helper, strong ally, rescuer

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ἐξουσία (exousia)

authority, right, power

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κεφαλή (kephalē)

head; source/origin; preeminent one

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τις (tis)

anyone, someone (indefinite pronoun)

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וַיִּקְטֹל (wayyiqtol)

consecutive/sequential narrative verb form (Hebrew)

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προΐστημι (proistemi)

to lead, to manage, to be over, to care for

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ἤ (e/eta)

or; disjunctive particle used for rhetorical refutation

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ἐπιτρέπω (epitrepo)

to permit, to allow, to entrust

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ἡ (anaphoric) (he (anaphoric))

the (anaphoric article — pointing back to a previously introduced noun)

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ἐπίγνωσις ἀληθείας (epignosis aletheias)

full knowledge of truth

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μυστήριον (mysterion)

mystery, something previously hidden now revealed in Christ

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δίδωμι (didōmi)

to give, bestow, grant, entrust

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πιστεύω (pisteuō)

to believe, trust, have faith in

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διδακτοί (didaktoi)

taught [by God], instructed

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προορίζω (proorizō)

to predestine, to foreordain, to determine beforehand

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παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi)

to hand over, deliver up, give over

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κλητός (klētos)

called, invited

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δικαιόω (dikaioō)

to justify, to declare righteous

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προγινώσκω (proginōskō)

to know beforehand, to foreknow

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πρεσβύτερος (presbuteros)

elder, older man; church overseer/leader by seniority

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הָפַכ לֶגּוֹמֵן (hapax legomenon)

a word used only once in the entire corpus; single-occurrence term

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αὐτοδικεῖν (autodikein)

to plead one's own cause; to act as one's own advocate (Attic Greek equivalent of authentein)

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ἀργός (argos)

idle, inactive, useless; also the eighth astrological house (house of death)

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ἐν ἐπισήμῳ (en episemo)

with distinction, in a noteworthy way; preposition phrase in Romans 16:7 (Junia debate)

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αἴτιος (aitios)

cause, source, author; responsible

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צָרַעַת (ṣāraʿat)

skin disease / ritual leprosy (Lev 13-14)

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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mike Winger introduces his Women in Ministry series, explaining he spent months studying the topic and it hurt his YouTube channel output.

Series introduction

women in ministry series introduction
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Additional practical questions: interviewing women, women on church boards, women evangelists, conference speakers, voting for a woman president, women as bosses, stay-at-home dads.

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

gender roles practical application women in leadership
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Mistake #1: Using life experience to answer what the Bible says — 'I know I'm called' as a bypass of scripture.

Mistake #1: Life experience overriding scripture

bypassing scripture calling experience-based theology
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Rebuttal: women's submission is not ontologically grounded — it is not rooted in women's nature making them inherently submissive.

Mistake #4: Rebutting 'ontologically grounded'

Rebecca Merrill Groothuis ontological grounding nature vs. assignment
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Tom Schreiner's response to Groothuis: egalitarians face the 'daunting prospect' of saying non-priestly Israelites had less dignity than Levites.

Mistake #4: Schreiner's critique of Groothuis

Levites Tom Schreiner Two Views on Women in Ministry
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Overview of Genesis 1-3 as the focus of this video, covering the fall and creation and what they say about men's and women's roles.

Series introduction and framing

Gen 1-3 creation and fall
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Reading of Genesis 2:7-25 with key observations: Adam made first, given commands alone, names animals alone, Eve made from Adam's rib.

Genesis 2 reading and initial observations

creation order Gen 2:7-25 adam naming animals
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Schreiner's point 2: God gave the command not to eat from the tree to Adam alone, not Eve -- Adam had to relay it, placing him in a teaching/leadership role.

Complementarian argument #2: command given to Adam alone

Tom Schreiner Gen 2:16-17 command to Adam
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Trible acknowledges naming animals is an act of dominion (p. 97 of her book) but fails to separate Eve's naming from that context.

Internal inconsistency in Trible's argument

Phyllis Trible God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality naming as dominion
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Mike's view: before the fall there was harmonious, tensionless leadership; now the curse introduces conflict -- the solution is alleviating abuse, not eliminating the nature of authority.

Mike's synthesis of Genesis 2-3 on authority

Gen 3:16 Gen 2 post-fall conflict
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Analogy: the curse made farming harder (thorns/thistles) but farming isn't bad; similarly, the curse made submission harder (conflict) but submission/authority isn't bad.

Analogy for understanding the curse's relationship to pre-existing good things

Gen 3:16-19 thorns and thistles analogy curse makes good things harder
Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Critical distinction: Genesis 2-3 is about HUSBANDS and WIVES, not men and women in general -- 'know your place' language wrongly presupposes universal female submission to all men.

Limiting the scope of the Genesis teaching

husband-wife scope Gen 2-3 universal female submission rejected
Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Nympha in Colossians 4:15 -- Lynn Cohick's claim she led a house church

Mike begins examining individual women named in the NT, starting with Nympha.

Colossians 4:15 Discovering Biblical Equality Nympha Lynn Cohick
Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Mike's survey of 18 commentaries on Nympha's leadership: only 3 of 18 agree

Mike conducts his own commentary survey to test the 'most commentators' claim.

Colossians 4:15 Nympha Colossians 4:15 commentary survey
Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Priscilla and Aquila: six NT passages, Priscilla's name first in four of six

Mike transitions to examining Priscilla and Aquila, acknowledging complementarians sometimes don't look closely enough.

women in ministry Priscilla Aquila
Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Conclusions on Priscilla/Aquila: Keener overstates, but women can teach men theology

Mike balances his critique with a positive complementarian conclusion.

Priscilla Craig Keener women teaching men
Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Ephesians 6:21-22 and Colossians 4:7-8: Tychicus gave personal updates, not letter interpretation

Mike examines the remaining biblical references cited by Keener.

Ephesians 6:21-22 Colossians 4:7-8 letter carrier as teacher Ephesians 6:21-22 Colossians 4:7-8