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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@aarondgarrett Part of the problem is that the churches that support women tend to be liberal (not all of them, but many). Unless women are trained and included with men, you will get a higher proportion being off. One I find is really solid is Kay ...

@aarondgarrett Part of the problem is that the churches that support women tend to be liberal (not all of them, but many). Unless women are trained and included with men, you will get a higher proport

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-25

@KeggerAgain Imagine you inserted someone from another ethnicity into your statement, and instead of a woman, you felt uncomfortable with a black man leading the church. That’s the kind of thing I’m trying to point out. Male or female or your ethnici...

@KeggerAgain Imagine you inserted someone from another ethnicity into your statement, and instead of a woman, you felt uncomfortable with a black man leading the church. That’s the kind of thing I’m t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Since you feel compelled to state that my view is a doctrine of demons—a view that frees women to serve without restrictions beyond character qualifications and ability—perhaps you should familiarize yourself with what char...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Since you feel compelled to state that my view is a doctrine of demons—a view that frees women to serve without restrictions beyond character qualifications and ability—perh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@haymes_joshua Church in that context was a group of believers meeting in a home

@haymes_joshua Church in that context was a group of believers meeting in a home. Do you recognize that as church?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@BornAgainMissy Now isn’t that interesting! “All scripture is God breathed…” —bu

@BornAgainMissy Now isn’t that interesting! “All scripture is God breathed…” —but He didn’t use his own hand and pen so God didn’t “write” it. This dear pastor already blocked me for asking him to su

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m agreeing with what she wrote as if it

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m agreeing with what she wrote as if it came from me, a male. I have the exegesis to back it up and thoroughly defend it. BTW, I’m misinterpreting something yo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m not out of order. I’ve studied the tex

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy I’m not out of order. I’ve studied the text carefully and it doesn’t agree with your view. Why don’t you just argue for your exegesis?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Oh, and where does scripture say that wome

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Oh, and where does scripture say that women cannot teach theology?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Are you a pastor and you are not cognizant

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Are you a pastor and you are not cognizant that you have to interpret scripture and how easy it is to take a text out of context?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Surely you know the NT is written in Greek? Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians after 1Co 7:1 but there’s no quotation marks in the original manuscripts. Are you aware of this? Why did Paul chang...

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Surely you know the NT is written in Greek? Paul is quoting from the letter from the Corinthians after 1Co 7:1 but there’s no quotation marks in the original manu

1Co 7:1 1Ti 2:11-12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy You are deflecting. You need to take responsibility for your interpretation and defend it. I’ve read the scripture and studied it carefully on this issue and a right interpretation of scripture is not on your sid...

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy You are deflecting. You need to take responsibility for your interpretation and defend it. I’ve read the scripture and studied it carefully on this issue and a ri

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan If she agrees with me and sees how the whole of the context and grammar does not forbid women from speaking, then the only one with the problem are guys like yourself. Thus: “What? came the word of God out from you [males]...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan If she agrees with me and sees how the whole of the context and grammar does not forbid women from speaking, then the only one with the problem are guys like yourself. Thus

1Co 14:36 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Yes, and following the logic, they were to teach all nations to obey *everything* that He commanded them. This would have been a good time to clarify “except make sure you limit women’s instruction and make sure ...

@ImRevAlan @PFKHealth @BornAgainMissy Yes, and following the logic, they were to teach all nations to obey *everything* that He commanded them. This would have been a good time to clarify “except make

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@BornAgainMissy Further, I presume that women learn theology not only for themse

@BornAgainMissy Further, I presume that women learn theology not only for themselves but to make disciples—of children, other women and yes, men. Why would they be able to teach children good theology

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Well, actually, all that this is proof of is that some women let themselves be controlled by feelings and lose connection to the facts. The rampant immigration has caused an immense amount of harm with people coming in and ...

@ymmotrojam @PaulaYScanlan Well, actually, all that this is proof of is that some women let themselves be controlled by feelings and lose connection to the facts. The rampant immigration has caused an

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@danitreweek I struggle to understand how anyone is against anyone serving the n

@danitreweek I struggle to understand how anyone is against anyone serving the needs of others. Even the most extreme complementarian and patriarchalists do not have men teaching children’s Sunday sch

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@dTipping62 @megbasham No one is called the head of the church except Christ. An

@dTipping62 @megbasham No one is called the head of the church except Christ. Anyone serving in leadership should be qualified and just because you find disqualified women doesn’t mean all of them are

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were not speaking in foreign tongues without interpretati...

@prejoal @smashbaals No, Paul isn’t emphasizing the Jewish traditions of subjecting their wives but ensuring that in the congregation people weren’t all speaking at the same time and that they were no

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explicitly ties deception with the time sequence of creation in Ge 2 and all women are not deceived and many men are deceived. When we go back to Ge 2 we can see what is going on that gives Adam unique experience that p...

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explicitly ties deception with the time sequence of creation in Ge 2 and all women are not deceived and many men are deceived. When we go back to Ge 2 we can see what is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@deensreggin @smashbaals Everyone who learns should learn quietly. Just look at any classroom. What Paul is dealing with in 1Ti 2:12 is not someone doing what men ought to but wife of likely an elder who is teaching false doctrine and he is silent an...

@deensreggin @smashbaals Everyone who learns should learn quietly. Just look at any classroom. What Paul is dealing with in 1Ti 2:12 is not someone doing what men ought to but wife of likely an elder

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@deensreggin @smashbaals Paul is quoting from the letter that they wrote to him

@deensreggin @smashbaals Paul is quoting from the letter that they wrote to him (1Co 7:1) and in this case refuting them: “What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto you [men] only

1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals I linked to a post above where I explained the context

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals I linked to a post above where I explained the context. I’ll include another one here too as I added more details about the reason Paul gives Timothy his authority. https://

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the other half. You are misreading the text by not cons...

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@philip_1689 @smashbaals Then you should be able to explain the meaning of Paul’

@philip_1689 @smashbaals Then you should be able to explain the meaning of Paul’s climatic statement in 1Ti 2:15. How do you explain Paul’s shift from singular to plural, “she…they” and his use of the

1Ti 2:15 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

RT @danitreweek: Dear Complementarian pastors, If you are outraged by Marion Ed

RT @danitreweek: Dear Complementarian pastors, If you are outraged by Marion Edgar Budde’s comments, be outraged at the substance of what…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@spriteworks @smashbaals Yes, Jesus was not a Levite and neither are Gentile pri

@spriteworks @smashbaals Yes, Jesus was not a Levite and neither are Gentile priests. So there is no correspondence to OT requirements for priests. So where are you getting the idea that women are not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@SimonReye @smashbaals Ok, was it the question? Let me rephrase. Not one male is

@SimonReye @smashbaals Ok, was it the question? Let me rephrase. Not one male is explicitly called a pastor in the New Testament.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@thedoctor1611 @smashbaals Women are not permitted to teach truth to men? Paul’s

@thedoctor1611 @smashbaals Women are not permitted to teach truth to men? Paul’s purpose of writing to Timothy was to stop false teachers not half the body from teaching the other half! https://t.co/Z

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@SimonReye @smashbaals Name one male who is explicitly called a pastor in the Ne

@SimonReye @smashbaals Name one male who is explicitly called a pastor in the New Testament.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to stop half the church from teaching the truth to the o...

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to sto

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@spriteworks @smashbaals Where are you getting that from, the Old Testament? In

@spriteworks @smashbaals Where are you getting that from, the Old Testament? In that case, pastors have to be Levites. All believers form a kingdom of priests. https://t.co/2crysd8yKJ

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has stated he left Timothy in Ephesus to stop *false* teaching, somehow you’ve crossed your wires into thinking this is abo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@MLbelch @smashbaals You have no authority⎯none at all. It is all in the Word. You can't tell me to do anything that isn't clearly in the Word. You also don't have the authoritative interpretation of the scripture. Your job is to serve by convincing ...

@MLbelch @smashbaals You have no authority⎯none at all. It is all in the Word. You can't tell me to do anything that isn't clearly in the Word. You also don't have the authoritative interpretation of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@KMD_0nline There is still a lot of cases where they are treated as second class citizens…remarkably in many churches. Just watch when a female pastor joins other male pastors in a Baptist fellowship. Watch how the men respond. But yes, women are co...

@KMD_0nline There is still a lot of cases where they are treated as second class citizens…remarkably in many churches. Just watch when a female pastor joins other male pastors in a Baptist fellowship.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Truthsearcher53 Yes, that’s the final application, but it is clear that women a

@Truthsearcher53 Yes, that’s the final application, but it is clear that women are opposed too. Satan went for Eve, after all. Then Adam rules his wife which was never what he was supposed to do which

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

RT @ryanschatz: @lutherananswers Paul already explained the angels reference. Ac

RT @ryanschatz: @lutherananswers Paul already explained the angels reference. According to 1Co 6:2-3, the saints⎯which includes women⎯will…

1Co 6:2-3 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Well, maybe he keeps addressing it in his next lette

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Well, maybe he keeps addressing it in his next letter. If the veil is *removed* in Christ, why would Paul be commanding that women—also ones who believe and turn to Christ—

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers You are interpreting it this way, but what evidence

@Heiserite @lutherananswers You are interpreting it this way, but what evidence in the text do you have for this? In fact, Paul says in 11:16 that neither they nor the churches of God have any such p

in 11:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, it is for the very reasons Paul outlines that he is giving women a choice. If covering one’s head shames Christ, then surely this applies to women also. Thus married women have a dilemma as they have essentially...

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, it is for the very reasons Paul outlines that he is giving women a choice. If covering one’s head shames Christ, then surely this applies to women also. Thus mar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, in 11:5, Paul explains the cultural implic

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Actually, in 11:5, Paul explains the cultural implications for women, especially those who are married to unbelieving Jewish husbands. In 11:6, we have the permissive imper

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers The “because of the angels” and “the woman should have authority over her head” are the links. There’s no “symbol of” in the Greek. Her authority to judge matters of this life is less than and therefore granted by her aut...

@Heiserite @lutherananswers The “because of the angels” and “the woman should have authority over her head” are the links. There’s no “symbol of” in the Greek. Her authority to judge matters of this

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Scriptural context trumps culture, Jewish oral laws

@Heiserite @lutherananswers Scriptural context trumps culture, Jewish oral laws or Greek medicine⎯scriptural context trumps everything.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers But this is precisely the problem. When you don't de

@Heiserite @lutherananswers But this is precisely the problem. When you don't deal with Paul's own context first, why should we follow the Ancient Greek medicine argument?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@Heiserite @lutherananswers I've read ideas about how hair was sexualized in the

@Heiserite @lutherananswers I've read ideas about how hair was sexualized in the Talmud, but what does this have to do with angels? Is Paul making an argument from the Jewish oral law? But why go the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@lutherananswers Paul already explained the angels reference. According to 1Co 6:2-3, the saints⎯which includes women⎯will judge the world and angels. If this is the case, then they should be able to decide whether to cover or uncover their heads. Th...

@lutherananswers Paul already explained the angels reference. According to 1Co 6:2-3, the saints⎯which includes women⎯will judge the world and angels. If this is the case, then they should be able to

1Co 6:2-3 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-20

@John42991250 @smashbaals The "God of the Jews" means the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You don't worship that God? He's a false god? Genesis to Micah were written in Hebrew to the Israelites. What is "most important" about being a dispensationa...

@John42991250 @smashbaals The "God of the Jews" means the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You don't worship that God? He's a false god? Genesis to Micah were written in Hebrew to the Israelites. Wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-19

@Rach4Patriarchy I am egalitarian and have no problem with women submitting to t

@Rach4Patriarchy I am egalitarian and have no problem with women submitting to their husbands. I just think that their husbands also submit to them.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-19

@_TheWildPursuit @smashbaals I’m not passive; I’m masculine. I have courage too

@_TheWildPursuit @smashbaals I’m not passive; I’m masculine. I have courage too (which, BTW, isn’t only a characteristic of males). Supporting qualified and godly women in leadership and not forbiddi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-18

@Eric_Conn Yes, this was certainly John Knox's view. https://t.co/EGjW24mlXt Do

@Eric_Conn Yes, this was certainly John Knox's view. https://t.co/EGjW24mlXt Do you see these 'church fathers' as popes for the 'manly men'?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-17

@Derelictiondino @wheresurhusband @Eric_Conn I don’t have a back bone? (Laughing out loud). You clearly don’t know me at all. The world already hates me because of the gospel—but churches excommunicate you for believing that godly and qualified women...

@Derelictiondino @wheresurhusband @Eric_Conn I don’t have a back bone? (Laughing out loud). You clearly don’t know me at all. The world already hates me because of the gospel—but churches excommunicat

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