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@mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Women shaved their heads in rebellion? Paul is asking women to cover their heads because of their former rebellion? Wow. I thought I heard it all. There was no such practice of covering in the churches b...

@mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Women shaved their heads in rebellion? Paul is asking women to cover their heads because of their former rebellion? Wow. I thought I heard it all. There

@mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals This sounds almost like Paul is spe

@mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals This sounds almost like Paul is speaking about people like you. https://t.co/irm0ygXdYD

@JoanBandy @mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Wasn’t the elaborate hair adornment a way to convey status and perhaps how some of the women were trying to get others to listen to them instead of the false teachers? Why do you assume it’s abo...

@JoanBandy @mikeproverbs10 @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Wasn’t the elaborate hair adornment a way to convey status and perhaps how some of the women were trying to get others to listen to them instead

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use singular “a woman” if he intends all women like v9-10? How do you know whether this is generic or specific? Who is “the woman” in v14 referring to? “She will be saved…if they” ...

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use singular “a woman” if he intends all women like v9-10? How do you know whether this is generic or specific? Who is “the woman”

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use the si

@mikeproverbs10 @JoanBandy @patriot49029471 @smashbaals Why does Paul use the singular? Paul links the time sequence order of creation to why Eve was deceived—why? Who is “the woman” in v14? “She w

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals Paul wasn’t commanding anyone to be pas

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals Paul wasn’t commanding anyone to be pastors or elders. What are you talking about?

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals The context is stopping false teaching

@mikeproverbs10 @severegrace @smashbaals The context is stopping false teaching not stopping all women from teaching. Women are commanded to teach by the great commission so Paul clearly wasn’t meanin

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-01

@AmateurOrthoInq @ChadRutter_ @smashbaals The Orthodox appear to be carrying forward the OT priesthood into the New Testament. Was Peter, Paul, James or any of the apostles ever called a priest like that? Any description of them wearing the priestly ...

@AmateurOrthoInq @ChadRutter_ @smashbaals The Orthodox appear to be carrying forward the OT priesthood into the New Testament. Was Peter, Paul, James or any of the apostles ever called a priest like t

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals What does the lexicon say this word mea

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals What does the lexicon say this word means? What do you think Paul means by using this term?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals And effeminate is the man taking care o

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals And effeminate is the man taking care of the household tasks while the wife works? Allowing her to co-lead the family? Sharing leadership with women in church?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@cjohnsonn0311 Except Paul never meant to exclude godly women from teaching trut

@cjohnsonn0311 Except Paul never meant to exclude godly women from teaching truth to anyone. The context is stopping false teaching. #ReadPaulInContext

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-24

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heresy, not teaching the truth of the Bible. And Paul n...

@UrMomChoseLife @smashbaals You write “Paul clearly states women aren’t to teach the Bible or be elders” First, Paul wrote “a woman” and in the context of the letter, it had to do with teaching heres

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft But still there isn’t anything on the record to say what the women were specifically teaching and why the men were using their prayers to argue. And Paul doesn’t tell the women who are claiming godliness to have s3x ...

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft But still there isn’t anything on the record to say what the women were specifically teaching and why the men were using their prayers to argue. And Paul doesn’t tell

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching in Ephesus was important or Paul would have mentio...

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-21

@jtdxn_ @KingRomans828 @Eric_Conn Even in the church, Paul admits that the older

@jtdxn_ @KingRomans828 @Eric_Conn Even in the church, Paul admits that the older widows do not need to get remarried and are allowed to be put on a support list if needed. There were also some wealthy

Now let me reply to you as Paul did to the Corinthians who said such a thing: “

Now let me reply to you as Paul did to the Corinthians who said such a thing: “What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto you [men] only?” (1Co 14:36, KJV) https://t.co/9JnfZg3M57

1Co 14:36 question

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Paul said that deception has to do with the time sequence in the creation order. Adam was not deceived because he was the ruler of Eve. Adam experiences God’s creative acts including the making of ...

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Paul said that deception has to do with the time sequence in the creation order. Adam was not deceived because he was the ruler of Eve. Adam experi

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Who is saying “did God really say?” Let me ask you this: was Paul disqualifying himself in 1Ti 3:1-13? He said “husband” and referring to managing one’s home with multiple believing children. Paul ...

@ReformaBro @JoInAthensGa @smugbuster88 @BenZeisloft Who is saying “did God really say?” Let me ask you this: was Paul disqualifying himself in 1Ti 3:1-13? He said “husband” and referring to managing

1Ti 3:1-13 question

@B___Q_ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situ

@B_______Q_____ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situation in Ephesus. Eve was deceived and not Adam, this being because of the time sequence order of creation. https://t.co

1Co 14:36 1Co 7:1 question

@WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Well, actually, after Paul quotes that from the letter th

@WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Well, actually, after Paul quotes that from the letter the Corinthians wrote to him (see 1Co 7:1), Paul writes this: "What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it

@Robert_S_Morley @OpenlyReasoned @DST_QA Paul was correcting a wayward female trait local to Ephesus?? So it’s unique to Ephesian married women to ask questions in church (the text doesn’t say they were doing this, it’s a guess)? Why don’t you see P...

@Robert_S_Morley @OpenlyReasoned @DST_QA Paul was correcting a wayward female trait local to Ephesus?? So it’s unique to Ephesian married women to ask questions in church (the text doesn’t say they we

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale In Tit 2:3-5, what in particular suggests to you that the older women are not to be teachers of men, pastors or elders? Does Paul say that they must ONLY teach younger wives? The point about them working at...

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale In Tit 2:3-5, what in particular suggests to you that the older women are not to be teachers of men, pastors or elders? Does Paul say that they must ONLY te

Tit 2:3-5 question

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Here’s a chart showing the grammar a

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale Here’s a chart showing the grammar and how to make sense of 1Co 2:15 the capstone of Paul’s comments in this section. https://t.co/Y0IdPyu8TO

1Co 2:15 general

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale He says many people who are able are unqualified. That is right. But to be disqualified because you are too short, too overweight, too old, the wrong nationality, the wrong socioeconomic status, or the not ...

@slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale He says many people who are able are unqualified. That is right. But to be disqualified because you are too short, too overweight, too old, the wrong nation

@Flyoverland22 Paul only named names for blasphemers, those who were not ignoran

@Flyoverland22 Paul only named names for blasphemers, those who were not ignorant and deceived. Reread 1Ti 1

@Flyoverland22 @ajfworship @sailemptyskies How do you know that Paul is speaking

@Flyoverland22 @ajfworship @sailemptyskies How do you know that Paul is speaking of hierarchy of authority roles?

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen Can a married man be spirit filled if h

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen Can a married man be spirit filled if he submits to his wife as his wife submits to him?

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen Wow, that’s kinda twisted! How are all

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen Wow, that’s kinda twisted! How are all the singles Paul encouraged to remain single going to be spirit filled?

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen “Egal position removes spirit filling”?

@Flyoverland22 @pastherandie @paulloewen “Egal position removes spirit filling”? What is that all about?

@Flyoverland22 @ajfworship @sailemptyskies If this was a chain of hierarchy, why

@Flyoverland22 @ajfworship @sailemptyskies If this was a chain of hierarchy, why doesn't Paul start with God and end with the wife? God -> Christ -> Husband -> Wife Instead we see: Christ

Ge 3:22-24 Ro 5:12 1Co 15:21-22 debate

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley My understanding of Adam’s expulsion is not only consistent with the text in Ge 3:22-24 but with the constant referral to “one man” by Paul in Ro 5:12,18-19; 1Co 15:21-22. The idea of responsibility because of some position o...

@DST_QA @Robert_S_Morley My understanding of Adam’s expulsion is not only consistent with the text in Ge 3:22-24 but with the constant referral to “one man” by Paul in Ro 5:12,18-19; 1Co 15:21-22. The

Some say that Paul commands women to be silent in the church. But how can he do

Some say that Paul commands women to be silent in the church. But how can he do this right after saying: "For you can *all* prophesy one by one, so that *all* may learn and *all* be encouraged" (1Co

1Co 14:31 debate

Some claim that egalitarians are messing with the gospel because the wife is to

Some claim that egalitarians are messing with the gospel because the wife is to represent the church and the husband Christ and when you allow women to lead, you impact a gospel image. But is that wha

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual critic, Dr. Daniel Wallace on Pauline authorship of 1...

@DragonHawk1959 @Eric_Conn You are relying on liberal scholarship. They question even the things Jesus said in the gospel accounts and divide up the Bible questioning everything. Here's a textual cri

@Stephen_Yahn @DaddyRoach Here are the short portions that are widely recognized as Paul quoting from the Corinthians: 6:12a “Everything is permissible for me”—but (all’) not everything is beneficial. 6:12b “Everything is permissible for me”—but (a...

@Stephen_Yahn @DaddyRoach Here are the short portions that are widely recognized as Paul quoting from the Corinthians: 6:12a “Everything is permissible for me”—but (all’) not everything is beneficial

@Whitehorse1255 Then why does Paul say he fears the Corinthian church may be dec

@Whitehorse1255 Then why does Paul say he fears the Corinthian church may be deceived like Eve? Can men be deceived too? "But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds

2Co 11:3 debate

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context and making sense of all the details including the ...

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context

@ronhenzel No, people can certainly speak the words insincerely. Otherwise no one could even read this text out loud! Paul is stressing in the context of spiritual gifts that a genuine, heartfelt acknowledgment of Jesus as Lord is something the Holy...

@ronhenzel No, people can certainly speak the words insincerely. Otherwise no one could even read this text out loud! Paul is stressing in the context of spiritual gifts that a genuine, heartfelt ack

@Stephen_Yahn @DaddyRoach No, it wasn’t preserved. But the boys Paul quotes from

@Stephen_Yahn @DaddyRoach No, it wasn’t preserved. But the boys Paul quotes from it are preserved in his response.

@ronhenzel Kenneth Hagen says Jesus is Lord. The question is what does that mea

@ronhenzel Kenneth Hagen says Jesus is Lord. The question is what does that mean and does the person mean what is meant in scripture? Ron, you are adding Calvinism to the words of Paul.

@BalamZuzu @graceforprize @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Exegeting Paul’s inte

@BalamZuzu @graceforprize @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Exegeting Paul’s intention by looking at the details of the letter, the context and audience and the grammar is lies?

@BeardedAcctant @SDungersheim @RuthAmyAllan No I don’t agree with gay marriage.

@BeardedAcctant @SDungersheim @RuthAmyAllan No I don’t agree with gay marriage. “One wife husband” has to be an idiom for faithful if married since even Paul and unlikely Timothy were unmarried.

@sethhezekiah @squidgy201 Who is Paul speaking to here? Women only? 2Co 11:3 -

@sethhezekiah @squidgy201 Who is Paul speaking to here? Women only? 2Co 11:3 - "But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your

2Co 11:3 debate

@WordserviceDan Yes, let’s look at what Paul meant, shall we? https://t.co/ZQizs

@WordserviceDan Yes, let’s look at what Paul meant, shall we? https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

1Co 14:34-35 1Ti 2:11-12 general

@DaddyRoach Except Paul isn’t telling all women to be silent. I’m 1Co 14:34-35 h

@DaddyRoach Except Paul isn’t telling all women to be silent. I’m 1Co 14:34-35 he is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote to him and rebuking them for silencing half the body. In 1Ti 2:11-12,

@katz_2022 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning No, Paul says he write t

@katz_2022 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning No, Paul says he write to Timothy (2nd person singular) so that *he* might know how to act. This letter was written to Timothy primarily though

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This underscores the critical role of Scripture in the life a...

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This unders

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This underscores the critical role of Scripture in the life a...

@katz_2022 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning A young single man is going to interject between a husband and his wife as the husband who is not deceived and perhaps an elder is doing nothing. This is a tricky situation for Timothy and Paul ...

@katz_2022 @ymmotrojam @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning A young single man is going to interject between a husband and his wife as the husband who is not deceived and perhaps an elder is doing nothing